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What's your long-term goal here? If you see yourself staying with your current company and they insist you get your MBA for promotion, that might make sense. If you're planning to branch off and run your own business, that's different.Hi All
Not sure if that is the right place. If not, please let me know. but here is my question.
One of the first thing I learn when starting investing is to always invest in yourself. So to invest in myself, I currently have two possibles path:
That said, I don't know if someone else already face the same situation and are willing to share his/her 2 cents.
- MBA : I do a master degree paid in full by my company. I believe that will help me at career and at personal level. But I believe mostly at a personal level because this will give me with a lot of tools to better manager my business and maybe quit my job and focus more on that.
- Master in Machine Learning: I came in this country with a master degree in computer science, but the equivalent in US is a Bachelor degree. So I was thinking of doing a second master focus in Machine Learning. Why ? Because Machine learning is a fast growing field and I believe this master will give me more technical tools for some of my business ( applications ) and can also help me in my career.
A MBA looks good for me, but if I leave the field of IT, I'm afraid I will never be able to come back again and therefore, never have a master in this field.
What is the best investment now ?
Thanks
On paper, I'd go with machine learning as a field where demand is only increasing.
I believe that you can learn more about running a small business from doing it and finding a good mentor than what they teach in classrooms. Very few professors are currently running their own businesses. You could always do some of the free online learning providing by some of the bigger name schools and/or just read the textbooks for yourself to see what you'd learn (you can rent them on Chegg or Amazon). There are probably better books for small business owners though.