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What should I take a master's degree on?
| /still op
My parents are thinking maybe business school of some kind? Since I do want to have my own studio, eventually. But is business school even any good? Never heard of anyone learning anything good from those.
| Sex
| You shouldn't tbh
Everyone I know with a master's has always regretted it and call it a waste of time for nothing but debt
Like, I get the grandma thing, I do, but putting yourself in that position instead of continuing to focus on your passions to get literally nothing out of it is a waste of the time you have
| You could go for CS and focus on computer graphics, learn the theoretical foundations for rendering and so on
| Media or IT
| >>994557
Right? I didn't regret my undergraduate studies, but I can't imagine doing a few more years of that. I dunno, I'm just exploring my options now.
>>994702
Huh yeah, maybe. I want to be good at tech art but I've been struggling with that. Would a whole degree help with that though?
>>994532
Sure, I think my grandma will be happy too if I get married but I just got no one in my life yet.
| Business could be good, especially if that's something you're looking at in the future. Good luck OP!
| Let me answer your question with another answer, OP. Is there a subject you're so interested in that you'd pursue an academic career in? Not *a* career, an *academic career*.
A master's degree is a bit of a commitment. It's not like a BA degree: It'll help you in academia, but nowhere else. If you want to commit to something like that, go ahead. If not, don't bother.
| >>994744
Yeah, I've been thinking about that... I majored in IR back then because it was something I was academically interested in, not as a normal career, and it went fine but I don't think I want more of that.
I've been thinking of taking literature or linguistics but the more I dig there, the less I feel like I want to devote whole years on them.
| On the other hand, my "career"'s not doing too well either... If I get laid off and couldn't get a job in this industry again, taking a degree for something that's "useless" might be better than nothing.
| don't do linguistics
there are no careers in natural language processing
nobody needs to understand the complexities of human language
syntax, semantics, pragmatics, just ask chatgpt to brute force its way through text any comprehension
patterns? datasets? fugget about it. go learn accounting
| Move to China,farm rice,monkey happy
| i would say something but i'm not qualified to give any advice about this
t. a bachelor's in cs
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| I have a rich grandmother who wants to have at least one grandchild with a master's degree before she pass on. She'll pay for everything, she says.
She's getting old and I'm the eldest grandchild, so it's on me. Thing is I'm not really into academia. I got a bachelor degree in International Relations, but my day job now is a game programmer and I want to stick with it. The game industry and academia don't really match, do they?