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Database skills are one of the most overlooked career investments you can make — and one of the highest-ROI ones if you start now. Most people realize this too late. Here's a story that might sound familiar. A friend of mine spent three years at a marketing analytics startup wondering why she kept getting passed over for senior data roles. She knew Python. She knew Excel well enough to impress anyone in a meeting. She could build dashboards in Tableau that made executives lean forward. But every time she applied for a senior analyst or data lead role, something stopped her. Finally, after her fourth rejection in twelve months, one hiring manager was honest with her: "Your analysis is genuinely good. But you can't write a JOIN query. You can't pull your own data from the warehouse. You're dependent on the engineering team for everything." She spent six weeks learning SQL and database fundamentals. Three months later, she had a new job — and a $28,000 salary b...