<p>Don’t even bother.
The purpose of a degree in the first place is to prove that you have a solid foundation in your field. That is something worth paying exorbitant student loans for, assuming you can actually use that. HOWEVER, you already have that credential - you have an engineering degree.</p>
<p>It is folly to spend $35,000 on another education. Let’s put opportunity cost and cost of attendance aside here and consider this only in terms of your direct costs. What do you actually get that makes it worth $35k? You don’t get a distinction; you already have that. You already proved to any employers that you can do the calculus, physics, and that you can learn the job they want you to do. All you’re getting for that $35k is some additional education, which is worth nothing even close to $35k (let alone the $100-200k that it would actually cost you, all things considered). </p>
<p>Want to know how to get what you would get from that EM degree for about 1% of the cost? Find all the required courses for that degree, and buy the textbooks that they use. Want it even cheaper (and more effectively)? Use something more useful for learning than textbooks written in a needlessly complex manner. For engineering, the best solution is to find a better textbook to learn from. For business/finance, you might not even need a textbook because the important concepts are fundamentally simple (the difficulty is in applying them right), and this is not likely to change at any point in the near future. You can even skip the parts of the course that aren’t useful to you by using this approach. This approach saves lots of time, lots of money, and is effectively the same result with less debt.</p>
<p>As for how to accomplish your goals:
You don’t need three years of education to do that. Three years of experience is probably worth more.</p>
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A strong foundation in calculus and physics, along with a willingness to learn more, will do that. Most industries that require a very specific degree do so not because of necessity, but because they can afford to be picky. That’s a sign you don’t really want to go work there. Learn more programming languages, learn statics+dynamics/circuits/chemical reactors and you’ll have a chance at breaking into your industry of choice assuming that the field is worth going into and that you know or can figure out how to sell yourself.</p>
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It’s up to you to make these. Figure it out; I’m sure you can if you really want it. </p>
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Just a matter of finding the right company. Not always easy, but it’s not bad.</p>
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You’re definitely not on the right track. More important than ANY formal education is the ability to get things done. At the highest level, any BS you put in will be seen very clearly by the entire company, and the board of directors of the company will fire you on the spot if you act irresponsibly. And thinking that you’re qualified because of your education is very much BS.</p>
<p>If you’re not really in any hurry to make a stable living, I suggest you learn a bit more on your own about what you want to know more about, and then go work at an early phase startup that interests you. You’re almost certainly not going to strike gold and make it rich (90% of startups fail, and the majority of stocks go to cofounders/investors anyways), but you get to try doing a lot of things at once and a lot of companies worth working at value startup experience. If you don’t like that, figure something out. But education is not the key.</p>