Hello Ben: Thanks for your answering a lot. I really need for advices about this. If you’d like to, maybe you can share more opinion about my other considerations on the article. I still don’t have strong enough arguments to make a decision now.
1.Thanks for your sharing about changing fields in bioinformatics to web app developing.
I don’t know about CS, but I think there are a lot of subfields in CS: Such as software, hardware, informatics, firmware.. Even software engineers has specailities at different programming languages. Any kinds of careers need speciality. So I really don’t know how it differs as working on a CS field in different companies. Abut how many years does it take for learning/ building new experience in bioinformatics changing to big tech companies? What about changing to machine learning research? Is it feasible to change career at an older age, like 50?(if I have enough money)
2.Are there any more examples that show the impactful cause areas change quickly by time?
Finally, I think it’s hard to say you’re interested in something until you learn some harder courses in college(especially for me, because I’m intersted in a lot of fields). So I still need to make college decisions first.
If you already have a technical background like bioinformatics or maybe even hardware, I think you could learn the sort of web development stuff they do at big tech companies in a few months of self-study or less, at least at a junior level. A lot of programming and CS skills are very general and transferable. ML researcher is more specialized and a master’s / PhD would probably help. But you might be able to skip the postgraduate degree by e.g. getting an ML ops job first, or just with lots of self-study. Note that I only have experience in software / web dev. I’m not sure what the answer to your question about career change at 50 is… I’m sure it’s possible, but I have heard it gets harder to find software jobs because of ageism
Hm, I think the question about cause areas changing is really hard, and I don’t know the answer.
Finally, I think it’s hard to say you’re interested in something
Fair enough! It is good that you are interested in a lot of fields
Hello Ben: Thanks for your answering a lot. I really need for advices about this. If you’d like to, maybe you can share more opinion about my other considerations on the article. I still don’t have strong enough arguments to make a decision now.
1.Thanks for your sharing about changing fields in bioinformatics to web app developing.
I don’t know about CS, but I think there are a lot of subfields in CS: Such as software, hardware, informatics, firmware.. Even software engineers has specailities at different programming languages. Any kinds of careers need speciality. So I really don’t know how it differs as working on a CS field in different companies. Abut how many years does it take for learning/ building new experience in bioinformatics changing to big tech companies? What about changing to machine learning research? Is it feasible to change career at an older age, like 50?(if I have enough money)
2.Are there any more examples that show the impactful cause areas change quickly by time?
Finally, I think it’s hard to say you’re interested in something until you learn some harder courses in college(especially for me, because I’m intersted in a lot of fields). So I still need to make college decisions first.
If you already have a technical background like bioinformatics or maybe even hardware, I think you could learn the sort of web development stuff they do at big tech companies in a few months of self-study or less, at least at a junior level. A lot of programming and CS skills are very general and transferable. ML researcher is more specialized and a master’s / PhD would probably help. But you might be able to skip the postgraduate degree by e.g. getting an ML ops job first, or just with lots of self-study. Note that I only have experience in software / web dev. I’m not sure what the answer to your question about career change at 50 is… I’m sure it’s possible, but I have heard it gets harder to find software jobs because of ageism
Hm, I think the question about cause areas changing is really hard, and I don’t know the answer.
Fair enough! It is good that you are interested in a lot of fields