[brudgers]

{Random advice from the internet}

More schooling will teach more of the sort of things that are taught in school. A job will teach the sort of things that are taught on a job.

If the priority is learning more of the things that are taught in school, get a graduate degree. There is nothing to keep a person from spending time on MOOC's while working. A lot of people do.

Work is not like school, most new grads will learn a lot really fast because the learning is by doing alongside other people with more experience in a culture with a great deal of institutional experience in the thing that is being done.

To put it another way, if there's some really interesting MOOC, take it now.

Good luck.

[karolisram]

Thanks brudgers. What I take from this is that you will learn a lot more in a job which I know and totally agree on. Thus if you can get such job, for example in a junior role where it is expected that you don't know everything and will have to learn a lot, take it. Meanwhile, a MOOC won't hurt but it's not the same as an actual job, just like school.

[brudgers]

Mooc's are easier to blow off than school. And less structured. And don't provide a widely recognized credentials.

I'll go further than I did before. If there's something interesting, just start learning it now: graduated or not, offered in a MOOC or not, working a job or getting a grad degreee. It doesn't matter.