I got a Civil Engineer bachelors degree, worked for a bit and then got a Masters Degree in CS. I took a few classes at university before I started a degree pro

I got a Civil Engineer bachelors degree, worked for a bit and then got a Masters Degree in CS. I took a few classes at university before I started a degree program. Despite this there were classes where classmates with undergrad CS degrees were at an advantage, so it was a fair amount of work to catch up/ keep up. Those with an undergrad degree had seen this stuff before for me it was new. On the plus side I was not wasting time in classes with stuff I already knew. It was worth it for me, I actually saw a lot of things from university at work (I did some time doing Operating System "Augmentation", writing libraries. Datastructures and algorithms and database classes were also useful post graduation. I think the degree helped get work and I enjoyed getting it.