Nothing stopping you from going after something more technical and more challenging. Every time I've been in the job market- back when I still deigned to work

Nothing stopping you from going after something more technical and more challenging. Every time I've been in the job market- back when I still deigned to work for other people- I got a range of offers, some of which were mundane and some of which were challenging. Just pick the challenging ones. Don't let yourself be typecast.... Took me forcing the issue to get off of working on windows software, for instance. There is no way a masters will teach you near as much as you can learn on your own..... Just doing a startup and working on a hard problem on the side will teach you an amazing amount. You just have to apply yourself and bite off something worth chewing. Plus, why pay someone to teach you old stuff when you can earn good money blazing new pathways? I hear people say that masters are supposed to teach you how to think, I haven't found that to be true, and that if you haven't learned by then, you won't learn it in school.