Still an undergrad. Still building three things at once — and this summer I added a fourth: a data analyst portfolio, one dashboard at a time. The question I get most: "why don't you just pick one and go all in?" Here's the honest answer: this isn't the focus phase of my career. It's the accumulation phase. Right now I'm not optimizing for one perfect outcome — I'm optimizing for capital, skills, and network. Building an Excel revenue dashboard with SUMIFS, INDEX-MATCH, and pivot tables taught me to turn raw data into business decisions, not just formulas. Now I'm moving into Power BI, building a sales/stock dashboard on a proper star schema. None of these lessons show up if I "just focus on one thing" too early. The focus phase comes later — after I've earned the raw material to know what's actually worth focusing on. Right now, my job is to accumulate that material honestly, one build at a time. Posting this on Snikus specifically because this is the one place where "still figuring it out" doesn't need a disclaimer. Not glamorous. But it's the phase nobody gets to skip if they're being real about how this actually works. #BuildInPublic #founder #dataanalytics