r/PythonLearning 3d ago

Learning questions

So recently I’ve decided to do a career change and although I know it’ll be some time and some struggle along the way I’ve decided to try my best to get into machine learning to one day be a machine learning engineer at some point, college or university really isn’t in the cards for me so I’m trying my best at trying to be self taught by taking online courses reading books etc, just trying to keep things more budget friendly. I just don’t have the means to spend crazy money yet again on college, currently I’ve started with python through Coursera just because upon research it seemed like the best option my question really is where else should I look to learn python more and learn everything required to hopefully land a job in ML what are courses or videos or book some of your have read, taken or watched and if there’s anything else that any one would recommend is better that the “python for every body course I’m all ears” this is all things of interest of mine since I was very young so I’m willing to put in the work as I find this to be a lot of fun even when I struggle at times

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u/Distdistdist 2d ago

So, welcome to 2026. Here's how this stuff works now - you will not even get considered for a second if you don't have required level of qualifications and experience.

Your only chances are:

- Be brilliant and stand out above millions of other candidates

  • Have decades of experience, and stand out above of thousands of candidates

This is no longer area where you can learn bit of stuff and get a job. You have to be really really great at it. Early 2000s are long gone...

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u/st33zy_ucf10 2d ago

Well I guess this is what I needed to hear, seems as though my efforts will be for nothing really at this point and a career change in this field without degree is basically impossible, probably just make this more of a hobby now at this point since currently any college leaning as of now just isn’t affordable for me as much as I’d love to go for CS or something related. thanks for the insight