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If you’re going in order to get education that you personally want, now seems like the best time. The economy will recover and you’ll be able to get back in lat

If you’re going in order to get education that you personally want, now seems like the best time. The economy will recover and you’ll be able to get back in later. If you’re going because you think it’ll give you better work opportunities later, I suggest thinking carefully about that. You’re already in your field. Even if you’re in an adjacent field but still in tech, you can usually transition — I’ve been a gamedev, worked in finance, been a pentester, and now I do ML. The question of whether I had a degree came up exactly once, very early in my career. Academia can be a good fit if you’re going for the right reasons. Make sure you research what life is like at that university, and plan out what you hope to get from it and where you want to be five years from now.

yarky 4y ago
Great advice! Where do you see more opportunities in the near future, ML?
- computomatic 4y ago
  Nothing interesting will be reliably funded over the next 5-ish years given the current macroeconomics. If we’re talking about where the opportunities (jobs) are going to be, then you’re probably looking at tech roles within non-tech companies. These companies have been dying to modernize but haven’t been able to hire engineers due to the tech bubble. After that, tooling that enables non-technical companies to build software - whatever that looks like.
- dimitrios1 4y ago
  The really high paying jobs of the future (well, and really now to be honest) are going to be some sort of combination of Data Science + Speciality Science. Think biomedical engineering, material scientist, chemist, any engineering discipline because the thing we need the most right now are better medicines and antibiotics against the rising threat of resistant bacteria, COVID showed us we still don't have a shot against a really bad virus, we need better batteries, better power generation, better cars and modes of transportation, etc. What we don't need any more of is web cruft and CRUD apps, social networks, and people figuring out more ways to mine our data and shove ads in our face.
  - logifail 4y ago
    > What we don't need any more of is web cruft and CRUD apps, social networks, and people figuring out more ways to mine our data and shove ads in our face (No snark intended, my background is in science...) The fields that would benefit society the most are not typically the fields where the most money is to be made.

yarky 4y ago

Great advice! Where do you see more opportunities in the near future, ML?

computomatic 4y ago
Nothing interesting will be reliably funded over the next 5-ish years given the current macroeconomics. If we’re talking about where the opportunities (jobs) are going to be, then you’re probably looking at tech roles within non-tech companies. These companies have been dying to modernize but haven’t been able to hire engineers due to the tech bubble. After that, tooling that enables non-technical companies to build software - whatever that looks like.
dimitrios1 4y ago
The really high paying jobs of the future (well, and really now to be honest) are going to be some sort of combination of Data Science + Speciality Science. Think biomedical engineering, material scientist, chemist, any engineering discipline because the thing we need the most right now are better medicines and antibiotics against the rising threat of resistant bacteria, COVID showed us we still don't have a shot against a really bad virus, we need better batteries, better power generation, better cars and modes of transportation, etc. What we don't need any more of is web cruft and CRUD apps, social networks, and people figuring out more ways to mine our data and shove ads in our face.
- logifail 4y ago
  > What we don't need any more of is web cruft and CRUD apps, social networks, and people figuring out more ways to mine our data and shove ads in our face (No snark intended, my background is in science...) The fields that would benefit society the most are not typically the fields where the most money is to be made.