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Data career path — San Antonio, TX

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What the assessment measures

280 items in five modules — what you love to do, how you work, fifteen STEM working traits, thirty real situations, and where you want your work to land — matched against forty careers in eight families. Then a sixth module drafts your mission, vision and values in your own words. Progress saves as you go; it is free and complete today.

Data career path. A path has a start, a direction and a destination. The assessment gives the direction, the career pages the destination, and the STEM Farm track the start at zero. Data careers reward curiosity about hidden patterns, skepticism about whether the numbers can be trusted, and the communication that turns a finding into a decision.

Careers the San Antonio, TX economy leans on

14 counties across Texas; 9 metro. Economies: 6 mining and energy, 2 tourism and recreation and 1 farming. Flags: 5 low employment, 4 housing stress and 4 low post-secondary education.

Data Scientist+34%Actuary+22%Operations Research Analyst+21%Statistician+8%Mathematician+8%Mathematics Professor+7%

Counties in this labor market

Atascosa County, TXBandera County, TXBexar County, TXComal County, TXFrio County, TXGuadalupe County, TXKarnes County, TXKendall County, TXLa Salle County, TXLive Oak County, TXMcMullen County, TXMedina County, TXWebb County, TXWilson County, TX

Metros around San Antonio, TX

Dallas, TX12 countiesFort Worth, TX7 countiesHouston, TX13 countiesAustin, TX10 countiesMcAllen, TX9 countiesEl Paso, TX–NM5 countiesKilleen, TX8 countiesBrownsville, TX2 countiesLubbock, TX9 countiesLongview, TX6 countiesCollege Station–Bryan, TX5 countiesAmarillo, TX7 counties

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Questions people ask

How is a "data career path" different from a personality type test?

A type test gives you a label. STEM Compass gives you a profile on fifteen working traits and eight kinds of impact, then a directional match against each career — a number you can explain, not a letter code.

Does it cost anything?

No. The full assessment is open at tienesesto.org/stem-assessment, and every result links to a STEM Farm track that starts from zero.

Sources. Career traits, education paths and value lines are the STEM Compass assessment library. Employment growth is U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections 2024–2034. County economic types are USDA Economic Research Service County Typology Codes (2025); labor markets are Census commuting zones (2020). Salary is not shown anywhere in this campaign on purpose: the assessment measures fit and what the work is worth to the world.