You have the right practical mindset, and it might have something to do with your degree choice. People that pick psychology aren't going to have their head in

You have the right practical mindset, and it might have something to do with your degree choice. People that pick psychology aren't going to have their head in their clouds and aren't doing DS for prestige reasons - DS is more a means to an end instead of an end itself. You're also trained only in fairly simple, mostly linear models, which helps. There's an even more extreme type to the one I outlined. This type of DS dislikes data engineering and dislikes applied modelling. They prefer to sit in an armchair and think about modelling, writing up a LaTeX document with abstract and overcomplicated math formula. I met one DS like this who was from a theoretical physics background and his years of operating in this mode couldn't be shaken off.