Is it OK to get a Master’s Degree in Computer Science/Engineering?

albertbrown26 said:
I don’t know how to ask this, but I always get awry every time I hear about people going back to school to get more education, when they can’t self-educate themselves. Maybe I am selfish, but things have changed for me in the last few days.

Not to go too TMI on here, but yesterday I could barely sleep because I had a vision that I wanted to go back to school to get a Master’s Degree in a subject that sounds interesting. In it, it had three choices: Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematics. Two out of those three sound interesting to me, as you can see in the subject thread (not to say that I do not dislike math; I actually like it, but I wasn’t always good at it).

Anyway, I have one life to live, so I wanted to ask you Kiwis this: Would it be awesome to go back to school to get a Master’s Degree in those types of subjects, or just go to trade school?

I really want to choose the latter, but where I live, there’s not too many good trade schools that sound reputable. Overall, I wanted to talk to my parents about it, but I think they wouldn’t want to waste any more money due to the loans that we already have to pay back.
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Seeking career advice on this fucking site? You are an exceptional one..
 
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Going back to school is a rookie mistake. I think everyone else has mostly explained why. It's for people who don't know what else to do and have daddy's money to burn, or they are exceptionally dumb and take on more debt themselves. If someone else is paying for it, like mom and dad or an employer, sure, I guess.
 
Any STEM degree is always better than the equivalent liberal arts degree.
 
JULAY said:
Get a job in one of those fields and have your employer pay for the degree.
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Wallace said:
I'm saying this as someone who's been in academia a very long time: DO NOT DO THIS.

The only conditions which you should pursue anything above a bachelors are:
1) Someone else is paying for it, and
2) The degree is a hard requirement for the job you want. Like they won't even say hello without the degree.
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This TBH.

Unless you've got loads of money to throw into doing something like this just for funsies, you're waaaaaaaaaaay better off getting a job in a CS or Mathematics related field, assuming you already possess the qualifications, and then try to get a Master's covered by your employer. Getting a Master's is very expensive and if you don't need one, I wouldn't bother, unless the aforementioned situations apply to you.

EDIT: If you don't already have the relevant Bachelor's degree then to be quite blunt I wouldn't bother at all, since you say you've already got loans to pay back.
 
Is it really a bad idea to do a Master's part-time if you got your CS degree at an average-tier state school and have an overall and major GPA of 3.7 and 4.0 respectively, and >330 GRE with perfect quantitative? Just feels like going to a more prestigious school is helpful.
 
Wallace said:
I'm saying this as someone who's been in academia a very long time: DO NOT DO THIS.

The only conditions which you should pursue anything above a bachelors are:
1) Someone else is paying for it, and
2) The degree is a hard requirement for the job you want. Like they won't even say hello without the degree.
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Or you live in a country where education is free lol
 
I hope OP figured it out. Personally it sounds like he needed to work on his crippling Autism more than anything else.
 
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Sorry for the colossal fucking necro but I found this posted on a cs-major doomer circlejerk on Leddit:
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Disregarding whether or not it's a valid statement or whether Berkeley students are entitled, it's kinda funny how "dude just learn programming lmao" was a valid idea for a few years and now we're at the point you have to suck, fuck and tug to get an unpaid internship. Yet, everywhere you go online, you still see compsci folk from yesterdecade go "nah bro it's so good" despite having zero insight into the plight of newcomers.

If even programmers are fucked, what job markets are even viable anymore? I keep hearing about tradeworkers here having subpar teachers and lack applicants enough to fill classrooms. "Record low unemployment!", yet there's no student-2-employee pipeline that sounds like it's working. Nobody wants a trucker with 0 miles to his names and a fresh electrician likewise can't find any place to learn actual skills.
 
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⋖ cørdion ⋗ said:
what job markets are even viable anymore?
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Nepotism

Edit: If I had to reply seriously with minimal PL, I would recommend to look into remote sensing for military applications. Analyzing satellite and drone imagery so you can bomb the bad guys slightly more effectively can be an okay career choice in some countries. It can be considered a subfield of data science and the pay is okay if you work in actual 1st world countries.
 
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⋖ cørdion ⋗ said:
If even programmers are fucked, what job markets are even viable anymore?
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Healthcare, maintenance and undertakers.
Since society has no need to be technological or advanced anymore, job market is drying up rapidly. Most of the postings are fake anyway.
All the technological corporations have exported themselves to china or india.
 
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