Data scientist is very sociable career…

Go into product (a product manager that gets the details can be invaluable)

Data scientist is not a very well-defined job title. It can involve more or less social interaction depending on the company.

But you could get more social interaction by doing pair programming with your coworkers or asking to be assigned more work involving social interaction, e.g. talking to clients or mentoring new coworkers.

You could eventually transition into another career path such as people management, education, project management, program management, sales, etc.

Yeah they’re all like “hey check out my blog post on this thing I just learned and had to tell someone about”

Become a manager, you’ll have tons of meetings with people.

Alternatively, get a social hobby. You don’t need social connections to come from work.

This is what offices were great for, just being able to go to lunch with a diverse group of co-workers. I would always make an effort to go to lunch with a different crowd occasionally, such as accounting or sales. As an engineer it also helps to get an idea of what everyone else is doing and how you can be more useful.

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Have you looked into local co-working spaces?

An option is discord, I havent used it myself but had a hunch chat might be flowing on a co-working room or whatever they are called

Although nothing beats forced social interactions at an office, how I miss idle chit chat

Greetings!

My background is in evolutionary genetics and bioinformatics and I totally agree!

I’ve been working as a bioinformatics consultant for almost two years now and I absolute love it. As a consultant I have several projects, and am constantly checking in with clients to do requirements gathering and present my work. While there is a fair bit of alone time/coding work of course, but it’s more like 60/40% or 40/60% depending on the project.

I never would have thought of consultant until I found this specific job posting that matched my background and in interviews got super positive vibes from the folks there. Now it’s my dream job!

Paired programming and mentoring or training new employees are also good ideas if you like your current gig 🧐

A possible option; work for another company which provides consultancy to its customers. As a DS, you will need to talk with customers yourself.

Become a solution engineer! Same job but you do it for a new customer every week 🙃