Ask HN: Masters in CS, ML, or get a job?

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8 years ago

Hi! I am about to end a two year contract working overseas, and I don’t love my current line of work. I’ve been teaching myself python, django, javascript, html, css etc with some CS fundamentals, algorithms on firecode.io and a few lessons on http://www.fast.ai for fun for the past two years.

I’m returning to the states in about a month and I’m trying to decide if I should just look for junior dev jobs and get some hard experience, or if I should look into getting a masters in CS, or a masters in ML .

In terms of future long term job security, earnings, etc, which of the three options would you recommend?

FYI, I’m a 27 year-old male who will probably be moving back to the Austin, TX area.

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