It's in a way a "compromise". Someone with as much experience as you has the luxury of being able to learn AND get paid for it too so I think you should utilise

It's in a way a "compromise". Someone with as much experience as you has the luxury of being able to learn AND get paid for it too so I think you should utilise that. Also from a career perspective to other people and employers it will probably not look very good. People may assume you were not good enough so you had to stop and become a student again. As wrong as that would be, people's perception is shallow and they don't have much information to work with, they'll make judgements. And as I said if you insist I think it doesn't hurt to concentrate your efforts on something with financial potential, just because you can. And something that you can "show". I think you'd be better off fitting the study in between other stuff in an organic way rather than just saying ok let's stop the world, go learn some stuff and come back again.