> Get my Master's?
No, not worth it. A bachelor's in comp sci can be a handy credential. But anything past that has diminishing returns.
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#12Maybe get some certificates for Azure or AWS? I heard good things about them like AWS Solutions Architect, lots of job positions on glassdoor and indeed for that.
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#13Potentially try a near-shoring development company?
They handle the staffing and tax logistics in exchange for a cut of the compensation.
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#14Do what most skilled former developers are doing and migrate to cloud infrastructure and/or enterprise API management. The jobs are more stable, and your coworkers are more mature.
What does enterprise API management entail in practice? Configuring endpoints and services on Kubernetes?
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#15> Get my Master's? No, not worth it. A bachelor's in comp sci can be a handy credential. But anything past that has diminishing returns.
A US based Masters is very helpful for immigration, if the OP is interested in working for US companies in the US.
A Masters in comp sci/eng may make sense for someone with an unrelated Bachelors. Otherwise, I agree. There are some employers who prefer candidates with PhD and grudgingly accept Masters, and really grudgingly accept Bachelors... But based on my experience with colleagues with PhD, I really don't want to work there (I've got a BS CE).
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#16Would you consider systems administration/related work? When I started out, it was mostly manual work, and I automated things as I went along. It's much more sophisticated, large and automated (run by software tools) than before. In other words, could you support what you used? In effect, doing larger scale things with less complex code? My feeling is that companies are betting on AI at the expense of everything else…
I run the ML team at a larger unicorn. I fully agree with this. We are multi & hybrid cloud with global SD Wan and everything on CI/CD. There is still a ton of maintenance, patches, deployments, and updates that require us to manually intervene in our otherwise automated systems.
If OP were to learn sys admin skills, CI/CD, and Terraform, he would be a key candidate for any ML team globally. They’re all going in that direction. We work closely with Google and they coached us in that direction. Sys Admin skills will always be in demand.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm in thailand and I met a frontend engineer working for the mono-rail company. She is paid top 10% for her age-group, but her salary is still like $4k usd / mo max. If (s)he can score another remote job, then that will be much more profitable.
That's not a good reason to stay unemployed. You can always continue to search for the better paying remote job while holding something down locally just to keep the bills paid.
idk, maybe? I think its difficult to job hunt and have a job. Especially with the amount of prep work required.
I think part time + job searching is ideal.
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#18The job market problems are way overstated. I was recently not just laid off but fired for incompetence and insubordination and had no problem getting the next job.