Ask HN: Should I look for a data science internship at age 30?
Long story short, I'm an applied statistician with four to five years of industry experience. Most of my work has been in the marketing vertical and has involved the use of SQL, R, and Python for model development and evaluation on medium sized data sets that required minimal cleaning.
After recently being let go from a big corporation that mischaracterized a role, I have begun applying for data scientist roles as I'm interested in taking my skill set in that direction. I've had a few interviews for data scientist roles over the past two weeks, but I've considered whether getting a data science internship would help add something to my resume. What do you think? Should I look for an internship at this stage in my career?
Thanks!
EDIT: I do not have a PhD. Background is an MA in social science discipline plus lots of late nights and weekends continuing to learn and develop my skills.
After recently being let go from a big corporation that mischaracterized a role, I have begun applying for data scientist roles as I'm interested in taking my skill set in that direction. I've had a few interviews for data scientist roles over the past two weeks, but I've considered whether getting a data science internship would help add something to my resume. What do you think? Should I look for an internship at this stage in my career?
Thanks!
EDIT: I do not have a PhD. Background is an MA in social science discipline plus lots of late nights and weekends continuing to learn and develop my skills.