Ask HN: If you had to get a non-tech masters degree, what would you go for? Is there any specific program / college / etc outside of tech that you would want to study if you could? |
Ask HN: If you had to get a non-tech masters degree, what would you go for? Is there any specific program / college / etc outside of tech that you would want to study if you could? |
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.