What domains are easier to work in/understand

I currently work in social sciences/nonprofit analytics, and I find this to be one of the hardest areas to work in because the data is based on program(s) specific to the nonprofit and aren't very standard across the industry. So it's almost like learning a new subdomain at every new job. Stakeholders are constantly making up new metrics just because they sound interesting but they don't define them very well, or because they sound good to a funder, the systems