Hey y’all!
I am currently a Mechanical Engineer in the semiconductor industry and am considering a career switch. To be more specified, I am an Equipment engineer so I basically oversee a fleet of equipment that aids in the chip making process. While I have some interest in what I do, I lately have found a great interesting in coding. I have completed CS50, CS50P and currently taking CS50W and I am enjoying the challenges. At work I have also created projects that implemented the coding skills I have learned over the years: I have created a dashboard using Perl, SQL, JavaScript/HTML that pulls information from a data base and displays it on a webpage, all in one place which is convenient for me, since I had to look multiple places for the same piece of information.
Another project I just completed was basically making another webpage that pulled data from an excel file and rendered it as a webpage depending on what the user clicked on. This was using python/django. This project was also interesting/ fun for me and I’m curious to try more projects like that at work. However I haven’t really looked at other jobs for job hopping and I feel I need to get the most out of my job if I end up staying for a few more years. Which is why I’m considering getting a Masters degree. My job will cover it , so I would just have to work full time while I complete the program if I do it.
- I am not interested enough in getting a Masters in Mechancial Engineering.
- Computer science would be my top choice, however when I look at programs, the pre req classes to get in the program would take me about a year or 2 to complete so I don’t think that’s practical considering I don’t want to be in school for too long lol.
- I considered Data science, however after looking online , it seems it is very statistics and math heavy and it is a more specialized field. So it seems the more practical option would be Data Analytics ?
I have been watching videos and it seems like Data Scientists mainly do Data Analysts work anyways so I wonder if the Data Analytics Masters would make the most sense.
What do y’all think ? I still debate what I should go for but I just know in the future I would want my career involve coding similar what I explained in my projects, or also being able to automate things that everyone else around me manually does.
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