I received a negative reply on the grounds of missing bank experience, which means that my study of statistics were of no avail because I should have worked in a bank instead.

I also should mention that my father worked in the computing department of a German Waterways and Shipping office and took care of the data collection and analysis of tide data and the like and became downright indispensable in his function. The thing is that originally he had studied construction engineering. The question is whether this sort of development is still being considered nowadays.