Running through a data analyst's mind late at night

From an email to me this week. Quoted with permission.

I've been doing this 'data analyst' thing for almost a decade now and I'm not even sure I'm doing it right. Does anyone really know what a data analyst is? I'm a Microsoft Access guy that got lucky and learned SQL from a bunch of very sharp devs. Then I got lucky again when I met [name withheld] and …