I learned Power BI and building dashboard on my personal time, out of passion.
No one asked me to do it, no company mandatory training.
it was me grinding 7 days a week year after year, spending my own money on licenses, courses, certification, everything.
Refreshing feeds to see new features the day they dropped, saving posts to build a knowledge vault, stalking YouTube for anyone who could teach me something new.
Nobody asked me to do this. Customers and colleagues needed solutions, so I built them.
I know there are a lot of people out there who feel the same way about technology. Learning at night, unpaid, unnoticed, sacrificing weekends and holidays. If that's you, keep going. Nobody asking is not a reason to stop. It's how you know it's yours.
Next journey: agentic engineering.