Man this is precisely my dilemma right now. I’m an 1st year analyst with a ms in data science doing ai engineer requests for in an insurance company where heads of analytics division think transformers are from movies. Knock on wood I pull off a pay package that’s being discussed, which would keep me for sure, but I can’t find(/failing to recognize) anyone in the company who I’d aspire to. Instead, out of boredom essentially, I’ve been doing Ai full stack development projects for companies, but again no inspiring people just repeating customized (though admittedly some rather interesting) problems with bit extra income. Am I just not looking for the right perspective?

Any tips or advice are welcome lol