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The marketing around data analytics education has a timeline problem. Course landing pages promise job-readiness in eight weeks. Bootcamp websites show testimonials from graduates who landed roles within a month of completing the program. Social media is full of stories about people who went from zero to employed data analyst in a summer. The message, repeated often enough and from enough different directions, starts to feel like the norm. It is not the norm. And for the significant number of people who enter data analytics programs expecting that timeline - and then find themselves at month four, still learning, still building, still not quite ready - the gap between expectation and reality can feel like personal failure when it is actually just an inevitable consequence of having been given an inaccurate map. What does the timeline actually look like? Not the fastest possible case, not the marketing-optimised version, but the realistic experience of a working adult who is approaching data analytics seriously, learning consistently, and aiming for a role that represents a genuine career upgrade? That is the timeline worth understanding before starting - and the one that almost n...