Graduate school, how and what?

Question

IT education

I think there are a lot of people here who were in graduate school. I would like to hear an opinion on what is better for a future career to work in a specialty or to continue education?
Now I am in the 5th year, I study in the specialty 010503 “Mat. software and AIS”. I program mainly in Java. Familiar with C++, ASM, Fortran. What I would like to do: business process automation, security application research, bioinformatics.

Answer 1

It is quite possible to combine both work in the specialty and postgraduate studies, especially if the latter is taken at the enterprise where you work. Management, if they are adequate people, usually supports, because a degree in the state is good.

Answer 2

not for the sake of holivar, I’ll say that it’s better to find a good job in your specialty and work, graduate school is an extra waste of time, nerves and money. You are unlikely to stay working as an assistant professor at a university, but a diploma and a head are enough for career growth)))

Answer 3

I would like to hear an opinion on what is better for a future career to work in a specialty or to continue education?

Actually, here I see three options:
1) You go to graduate school, while doing science one hundred percent.
2) You are going to graduate school, while still working, and successfully combine the topic of work and dissertation.
3) You are going to graduate school, while working on a topic that is not related to the dissertation.
First option.
The plus is obvious - if you devote maximum time to research and writing a dissertation, you will most likely defend it and get a candidate.
The minus is also obvious - you can’t live on a scholarship.
Second option.
Plus - you are engaged in science, while there is something to live on.
Cons: I don't see it.
Third option.
Plus - enough for cheese and butter.
The downside is that you need to strain your ass more, because with a forty-hour working week it is not easy to deal with a dissertation.
So the first thing you need to do is prioritize how interested you are in science. From here already and choose.

Answer 4

You need to mow - go. Other than that, there is nothing to do there. If you want to do science on the subject of financial software, then buy a pen and a notepad. You can make your discovery with such tools.

Answer 5

PhD for those who want to do science. If you want a plus from the employer, then, IMHO, it does not pay off, it is better to work well, and not to study. If you do not see yourself without science, if you want to turn the whole world upside down with your discovery, then welcome to science. Science begins with a master's degree, but here in Russia everything is somehow the other way around - a master's degree is a high school. In the entire civilized world, a bachelor's degree is enough to be a specialist.

Answer 6

I study in graduate school (albeit in absentia), I work at the university as a teacher, at the same time I work part-time at the company. What can I say... If you have the resources - time and, oddly enough, money, as well as an intelligent supervisor of at least a Doctor of Technical Sciences / Physics and Mathematics and an interesting dissertation topic - it's worth a try. And of course, there is no family / children who, in the context of this problem, are more a minus than a plus. You will always have time to work as a programmer, but if you don’t go into science immediately after university, your chances decrease, and significantly. Well-known scientists who have achieved something in 50-60 years here are more likely to confirm this rule.
This is all, of course, in general terms. In reality, it can turn out differently, for example, after passing the first year, I had a financial issue, and I’m not very happy that all this hangs on my back (don’t forget, the cost of postgraduate education is rather big, and even in the case of a state order, it looms, because in case he didn’t cope / was expelled - everything must be returned) ... Passing exams is bullshit, but making publications, filling out and submitting all the necessary papers and reports, writing the dissertation itself in the end is an order of magnitude more difficult. For me, for example, as I do not have “acquaintances” and coordinates of easy workarounds, it is doubly difficult.

Answer 7

If you are serious about science, then it is not at all possible to combine it with work. The only way out is to do something related to the main work. Otherwise, it is very difficult and stressful, I went through it.

Answer 8

Realistically, what you want to do is most plausibly done in a firm (maybe your own firm). Or in a startup.
Go to graduate school only if you have a good like-minded supervisor (maybe, by the way, stir things up with him), and you have definitely decided the topic of the dissertation. By the way, science in this area is extremely difficult to dig out. Engineering in its purest form.
If there is no good researcher, department and topic, you will simply waste a lot of time writing papers, some stupid fuss, and so on. Be honest with yourself. There will be 0 sense.
If you need to mow down - look for other ways, you will beat them off faster in terms of money :)