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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. :/
My interest in human behavior was fueled by family systems theory which really lens itself to engineering thinking about predictable patterns and human systems. It is by far the most objective set of concepts I've seen that explain about human behavior. I still participate in that professional network and have an app for diagramming automatic versus deliberate behavior in a family system over time. Now I just have to figure out how to make it my job still planning for retirement.
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. :/
Unfortunately, those subjects are only meaningful if you go all the way to PhD.
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.
Several years back I left software for about 3 years to achieve required professional military education for an officer and two military deployments. Being deployed in the middle of the Covid lockdowns was not fun and the combination of these events were too much time away from the family. I have already abandoned a software development career for data science and enterprise API management, which is much better. I st…
I bought a farm and quit tech, but I was management scum, not a SWE (though I did have some under me a couple jobs ago). There's a lot to learn. I'm not really doing this for the money, rather as my contribution to the community and environment, but it would be chill to make some anyway as a further validation of my process.
Farm? Are you rich?
"The best way to make a small fortune in farming is to start with a large one"
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Guys like him get to do that, because he has the sort of brain that allows him to get a PhD in physics The world is a whole lot more dangerous and confusing for everyone else
I don’t get your point.
OP shouldn't try to imitate his friend, thinking he'll find similar success. It's an unpleasant conclusion but it's conducive to staying alive
I left STEM (non-CS/software) and became a firefighter-paramedic in 2006. I spent 14 years and left in 2020 when Covid was the rage. From 2010-2015 I got a masters in CS as a back up plan in case I got hurt or sick and couldn't do FF/PM. After I graduated in 2015 I worked a couple of remote part time jobs and then went full time developer in 2020 when I left the fire department.
What do you like/dislike about both careers?
There are a lot of things that I miss and don't miss at the fire dept. I miss dinners at the FD. We would sit down to a nice, home-cooked meal, laugh, argue and rag on one another. I don't miss getting a call at 2 a.m. for constipation (true story). I worked 24 hours on / 48 hours off, thus if I took one shift off it was a total of 5 days I had off...miss that. Definitely don't miss the politics between management and the field - typical politics of every other job I've had regardless if blue collar or white collar.