Not a waste of time but you'll need to be entrepreneurial to get a job without a higher degrees at the moment . In a few years time you'll be able to nail a job

Not a waste of time but you'll need to be entrepreneurial to get a job without a higher degrees at the moment . In a few years time you'll be able to nail a job in DS simply because it'll likely be more pervasive in every day SaaS products and it'll become yet another thing you do as a dev that isn't strictly part of your job title.