I work since 10 years now for the automotive industry in the R&D field (Software Engineering). I recently changed to another Department (also R&D, also Software). In this new job, I realized that by working for 10 years in the same Department I lost the opportunity of learning some other technologies at a professional level (which is obviously normal). I guess realizing this now, opened my appetite for learning more and more things and I have spent a deal of time reading and self learning and I have also ramped up in my new position in very interesting things.
But there is one field to which I feel really attracted to and which requires me to study more because normally (for what I have read) in these fields, companies tend to hire more people with PhD levels mostly. I am 35 and I would love to make a PhD or at least a Master in Science, but I don't know if it is too late now for that. On the other hand, I don't know if I could take one of these specializations and simply try to change my career to that new field along with the bag of 10 years experience (experience is always good right?). I am afraid that at the end this would turn to be just a waste of effort, time and money.
Has anybody been in a similar situation? What did you do? What did work and what did not?
Thanks.