Has anyone here done a major career switch?

I am in investment banking right now, but i could really see myself switching to computer engineering or life sciences research.

Has anyone done a major career change that may have included getting a masters in a different field?

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Currently in IB, recently got a high score on the LSAT and am planning to go to law school and work in public interest law

 

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"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

I just shut down my property management company I ran for five years. Going to grad school for psychology then on to get a PhD hopefully. Wanna be a researcher and college professor and do other shit like write and podcast on top of that. I told myself I would take time off but I'm learning I can't handle my own company for too long these days so I'll probably just start when we get home from Ukraine. 

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