I’m a career changer and am currently working full time as a SWE. I got the job as an intern and transitioned to full time because I’m earning my masters degree in CS part time. I have a bachelor’s in an unrelated field and I took courses at the college level in order to get into my masters program (32 credits total) which helped a lot with learning things like data structures and algorithms, computer architecture, discrete math, etc. I’ve been at my company full time less than a year. I’m starting to feel like I’m not really learning anything practical in my degree program and it’s a very large drain mentally and financially. I’m going part time so it’ll take me forever to finish and another $43,000 (and six more classes - I’m at a private university in the US). I’ve been thinking about taking a leave of absence then deciding if I want to continue. My mom has been a DBA for almost 25 years and truly believes my career will suffer if I do not have a CS degree. I would like to start a new job search after my one year for a globally remote role (TC is not as important to me as total flexibility with where I live as I plan to travel full time). My question is: do you believe it’s worth it to finish my masters? Why or why not? (Also, don’t have any real interest in AI/ML and am happy to continue being an IC and getting to senior/staff level eventually but am not in a rush). Thank you!
TC: $180k, salary: $125k
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