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by freilanzer 853 days ago
I'm a data scientist, but it's becoming more uninteresting to me - not ml itself, but ml in companies. I've been thinking about studying cognitive psychology or cognitive neuroscience, but most classes are in person. :/
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Unfortunately, those subjects are only meaningful if you go all the way to PhD.
This is my biggest blocker to leaving software.

Anything else that interests me, STEM or non-STEM is pointless without a PhD or a decent masters program at least. I don’t even have an undergrad degree. I was more or less willing to bite the bullet until I got laid off and had to start oissing away my savings trying to find another job I hate this time with less pay less enticing benefits in a shittier market, and it doesn’t seem like it’s possible now or in retrospect. Even if I did manage it, I’d have to lose basically the rest of my life to go all in on one thing in hopes it works out.