I recently graduated from University of Pennsylvania with a masters in computer science after 9 years experience as a DBA and GIS, + 1 year experience working for a social media lab doing natural language processing (co authored on several papers) + 1 year experience working with big data (10 tb in size).

applied to ~85 data science positions. I can't even get recruiters to call me for a phone screening, so don't feel down =)