Take These Steps If You’re Looking to Make a Career Change. Step #3: Take a Class
Unless you’re looking to become an anesthesiologist or a trial attorney, you can likely build your skill set without applying to graduate school.
There are boundless opportunities to learn things on the internet. Resources like Udemy, Coursera, and Alison offer hundreds of free classes–you can learn anything from project management to web design.
Even if you’re not looking to change your career (why are you reading this?) you should take advantage of these free classes. Heck, we all should learn about probabilistic graphical models because, why not?