Ask HN: Should I pursue an ML career with good pay or a dream to teach abroad?

Re:Ask HN: Should I pursue an ML career with good pay or a d... by takeachance on Friday June 12, 2015 @04:57PM (#9708491)

As for support, I do have some from my family in case of an emergency, but its certainly not infinite. I feel like in life, I've consistently taken the safe route. Now, I'm really tempted to take a huge chance. I know that taking a year or two off to teach English would generally detract from my career, but I also am very self-motivated, and I would probably spend a good amount of that time building my programming skills even more.

tl;dr: Should I take a mid-pay job with high potential for future salary, but be locked into a particular location, or pursue a life-long dream and teach abroad for a low salary with low potential for future salary?

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Re:Ask HN: Should I pursue an ML career with good pay or a d... by atsaloli on Friday June 12, 2015 @06:15PM (#9708893)

Do you want to be happy? Don't settle, pursue your goals. Just don't fuck up your life.

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Re:Ask HN: Should I pursue an ML career with good pay or a d... by takeachance on Friday June 12, 2015 @07:20PM (#9709156)

Of course, who doesn't. But I suppose the question here is whether pursuing my goals would indeed fuck up my life or not.

There's also the option of trying to find a similar such ML position in japan also, but i still need to look into that.

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