10 years+ in Data Science and I am stuck

Currently work as a Data Science Tech Lead in an Insurance AI lab with 20+ data scientist. Overlooking 3 squads, coaching senior DS & maintaining technical quality. The lab mainly do NLP research & projects are interesting.

It sounds great but I feel depressed & pessimistic with the career outlook.

I worked my way up from data analyst (excel) to ML Scientsit (building NLP model) to DS tech lead (governance).

The higher the career ladder, the fewer chance for me …

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