Masters degrees are (from my experience in the US workforce) generally only professionally useful when there is an explicit requirement for one set by a professional standards body or codified in law. As in, you usually need a masters to get tenure as a teacher in a public school, and some government jobs have specific and inflexible degree requirements. But for private sector employment, masters degrees are mostly just for personal enrichment.
If I was recommending for a friend in tech trying to advance their career: MBA
Otherwise something they enjoy.
Looking for a masters in Beer drinking, or camping.
I still plan on working for another 15 years [1]. I have been working in cloud consulting for 5 years and I’m a staff consultant now. It’s half management style “what you should do” consulting and half leafing implementations or doing it all myself for smaller projects. I specialize in app dev + cloud.
The mid to end gane is fractional CTO I think or more management style consulting outside of just “application modernization”
[1] don’t cry for me. I work remotely and we travel a lot and do long term stints away from home “digital nomadding”. Work isn’t stressful.
I was wondering that maybe if i am alder and have nothing to do I could try again but I lost interest. I prefer physical things, like martial arts, running and things like that to sitting in a class reading books. Makes no sense to my any more.
I felt it made me a better 'thinker' if that makes sense? Learned to be more critical (in a good way) and consider subjects I'd never come across before. I even went and created (and won!) a business pitch to a government org to handle some habitat surveys which was a great experience.
bombcar•1mo ago
Study what you don't know and what is outside your area, and you become substantially more valuable.
E.g., a techie who has some legal understanding or a lawyer with tech experience vs those without.