> it's difficult to land a profitable role doing research/pure science, especially if you don't have a PhD Honestly I'd modify this to say that unless your Ph.

> it's difficult to land a profitable role doing research/pure science, especially if you don't have a PhD Honestly I'd modify this to say that unless your Ph. D is in physics, mathematics (and you're willing to go into finance) or data science... you're not going to be that much better off. And the time you spend out of industry you'll never make back. Take a CS degree, go work for any of the big ones and get "senior" next to your name as soon as possible.