I am a lifelong learner, so the field of Data Science provides unique and endless learning opportunities but, when it came to my friends, I could almost hear most of them yelling in my ear: “Don’t do it dude!”. But, you see, those who say that don’t understand my life story, and how I fell in love with the field of statistics during a time where we had to do all the data crunching by hand - as in no computers or calculators.