MSc in what?

I’d always go academic/research tbh. Thinking’s better than doing.

Pay off the time for your training and think about it then.

hth

Choose where you want to be in five years (or better ten years) and then work back

Either energy systems at Oxford or renewable energy engineering at Exeter.

Tecco that is silly advice as quite a lot of professional jobs and masters have a fairly large lead time of up to a year.

You should know that from when you used to parachute of of aeroplanes into a private equity meeting to write some code that would later become known as The World Wide Web.

Interesting. Do you have the academic background for engineering MScs? I thought you were an English grad.

A topic of some interest to me (a law grad) as I consider this degree:

https://www.sussex.ac.uk/study/masters/courses/artificial-intelligence-and-adaptive-systems-msc

I am an English grad but my postgrad is CS. I have already okd it with the relevant admissions tutors and have also worked as a postgrad researcher in one of those departments.

Also my github leaves muggles slack jawed in admiration so it shouldn’t be a problem

Mugen, don’t be a pillock.

You didn’t specify how long you had left to pay off, could be years.  But never mind, I hereby dub thee Laz2.

And btw I’m surprised that you aren’t familiar with papasmurf.c and fraggle.c which I in no way wrote but was in those circles.

git init

good lad Mugen

May head in a comparable direction with AI or adaptive systems stuff. Got to be heavyweight blue sky research for me. 

Yeah, you’d love it Laz... when I turn up to interviews they’re like ‘so tell us a little bit about your background?’

And I start like ‘Years ago...across the the frozen seas above the fjords my mother spoke to me and said ‘child of my bough - my seedling - you are a warlock now, of witches born...’’

‘Enough of that let’s talk about programming now’

And then I move quickly. Flick the frost from my fingers, throw off my robe, begin the geometric gestures that I cannot teach but always know - clap my hands upon the server’s hard disk - and open a portal to the underworld

Heh u cheeky cnut. I’d love it to be like that m99!

But it will probably be a more conventional research path via the Sussex MSc. I’ve done loads of open university maths courses which will give me enough of a base as the course routinely takes people from varied backgrounds. 

It's true Laz. That's roughly how all my interviews go.

I walk in from the cold and rest my staff against the desk. I settle my cowl back, cross my legs, and settle gently to the floor - waving my hand to decline the chair.

'We heard whisperings of you, on the internet - that your methods were...unusual...'. An eyebrow raises in confusion as smiles curl in scepticism.

I settle lower, disappearing under the desk as I begin to draw large chalk parentheses on the floor.

They peer over the table in curiosity.

'Er, what are you doing!?'

'I am writing a function. Come..sit with me'. I pat the ground, invitingly....

'Now I am going to show you some programming...' I begin....

You should start a cult 

I found an MSc reasonably tough full time so I'd suggest working a bit longer and stashing some cash and then doing it full time rather than juggling it around a job.

LOL @Linda.

Sailo I think an MSc part-time is within my ken and considerable talents.

Much like Walt Whitman, and later, Laz - 'I contain multitudes'.

a Walt Whitman quote I love is "If you done it, it ain't bragging". 

That is a good quote Kimmy. And also very relevant to moi, and also to a lesser extent - Laz