Somewhat off-topic, but would be possible to secure an ML-adjacent job by bootstrapping oneself with online courses? I love the topic, play with LLMs and SD in my free time, but I would love to learn some hard skills and earn from it. I feel like I'll need to take a sabbatical to have enough time to develop myself though.
Yeah, considered this. Talking to people in the industry it sounded like the ML field is undergoing a lot of the same issues even for people with grad degrees. I figured if I'm going to spend a bunch of months learning more skills it might as well be for something that my immediate surrounding community has more of a need for. But a valid point & definitely a path worth considering.