I’m pretty sure a masters in CS is a bad idea for me.
I’m a mid level eng who has done backend, data and infra work. Still employed.
I have a non-CS undergrad, and a number of yrs working as an eng.
I have an education benefit from being in the military that would pay some/most of grad school.
i am pretty sure the GT Masters is out of reach, and the best programs i could get to would be ASU or Colorado’s Masters.
I would do a program part time only, cannot take a career break for it.
It feels odd to leave this money on the table, but it seems like the better use of my time is on things like certs (AWS, K8S, etc..), side projects, leet code, or joining open source projects.
I work for a tech company now (nothing famous) and plan to keep working in private sector tech for the rest of my career.
it seems like a masters would be helpful if i wanted to get into gov work or maybe a research team somewhere.
can folks help me sanity check that the masters is not a great use of my time?
we only have so much time to spend on professional dev and i dont want to waste it.
Feels like the best thing that would come would be to help with some of the imposter syndrome that comes from having a non-CS background.
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r/cscareerquestions I’m pretty sure a masters in CS is a bad idea for me. I’m a mid level eng who has done backend, data and infra work. Still employed. I have a non-CS undergrad, and a number of yrs working as an eng. I have an education benefit from being in the military that would pay some/most of grad school. i am pretty sure the GT Masters is out of reach, and the best programs i could get to would be ASU or Colorado’s Masters. I would do a program part time only, cannot take a career break for it. It feels odd to leave this money on the table, but it seems like the better use of my time is on things like certs (AWS, K8S, etc..), side projects, leet code, or joining open source projects. I work for a tech company now (nothing famous) and plan to keep working in private sector tech for the rest of my career. it seems like a masters would be helpful if i wanted to get into gov work or maybe a research team somewhere. can folks help me sanity check that the masters is not a great use of my time? we only have so much time to spend on professional dev and i dont want to waste it. Feels like the best thing that would come would be to help with some of the imposter syndrome that comes from having a non-CS background. submitted by /u/thisfunnieguy [link] [comments]
I’m pretty sure a masters in CS is a bad idea for me.
I’m a mid level eng who has done backend, data and infra work. Still employed.
I have a non-CS undergrad, and a number of yrs working as an eng.
I have an education benefit from being in the military that would pay some/most of grad school.
i am pretty sure the GT Masters is out of reach, and the best programs i could get to would be ASU or Colorado’s Masters.
I would do a program part time only, cannot take a career break for it.
It feels odd to leave this money on the table, but it seems like the better use of my time is on things like certs (AWS, K8S, etc..), side projects, leet code, or joining open source projects.
I work for a tech company now (nothing famous) and plan to keep working in private sector tech for the rest of my career.
it seems like a masters would be helpful if i wanted to get into gov work or maybe a research team somewhere.
can folks help me sanity check that the masters is not a great use of my time?
we only have so much time to spend on professional dev and i dont want to waste it.
Feels like the best thing that would come would be to help with some of the imposter syndrome that comes from having a non-CS background.
submitted by /u/thisfunnieguy
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