anshukla

I am going to be graduating from an undergrad CS program soon. I have a full-time offer in an engineering role at a large tech company and multiple internships. However, I strongly want to stay in school for another year to get a Masters in a more analytical field (top 5 program) and hopefully move into Data Science/Engineering positions. There is a possibility that I could transfer from my current offered role at this company into such a position after a year as well.

I am afraid of rejecting this offer to stay in school only to find that I'm joining the labor force in 2017 in a down market. I think it's fairly reasonable that we will be going through our once-a-decade downturn sooner rather than later. Is this a legitimate fear? Should I be concerned about starting my career at at time when beggars can't be choosers? Is the plan to work and transfer likely to have better outcomes?