Think about it a different way - you prefer to be an individual contributor versus a team player (No Bosses) and you mentioned in your OP you have an interest in markets and needed to make a better income [to live an advanced red-pill] lifestyle.
So where are the great money centers and what drives them?
NYC, London, Frankfurt, Paris, HK, Tokyo, and Commerce Drives them meaning the Markets.
AI and Tech are in the process of disrupting everything and every developer's team I know of in the USA use offshore devs in low-cost alternative locations Romania, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Belarus, Poland, Hungary even Brazil, Argentina, India and the Philipines.
So anyone studying tech in the west will likely become a program manager or lead architect of coders offshore with many of the coding jobs replaced by AI. What will not be replaced by AI too soon is the skillsets to analyze these Technologies, Companies and Industries for future investment returns.
I have a friend who runs a $200M-USD Trading Book for a Major Global Financial Services firm. Most of the guys on his team are in their late 20s to 30s have Masters Degrees in Finance. They make millions every year up markets or down.
These are the folks who become the next Hedge Fund Managers or so-called Mega Investors like Warren Buffet.
Rather than get another masters degree since you have your sociology undergrad and a masters... you can learn a tremendous amount from a few key books and Vlog Sites... my favorite new FinTech Vlog site is Hyperwave on YT and their associated websites:
Hyperwave RT Channel I have watched most of their short 1 hour videos and they are currently writing a book ...
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLJxbdX...Sy79TMVQSw
Their HV Website:
Lucid Investment Strategies, LLC
https://lucidinvestmentstrategies.com
Books the Institutional Money Managers, Investors and Traders refer to:
Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets: A Comprehensive Guide to Trading Methods and Applications (New York Institute of Finance) by John J. Murphy | Jan 1, 1999 Hardcopy on Amazon
Steidlmayer on Markets: Trading with Market Profile, 2nd Edition 2nd Edition
by J. Peter Steidlmayer (Author), Steven B. Hawkins (Author)
Steidlmayer developed the concept of Market Profile used by advanced institutional Traders.
Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns Hardcover – May 2, 2005
by Thomas N. Bulkowski (Author)
You would be surprised how much Japanese Candlestick Patterns are useful to Institutional Traders...
No matter how much coders use so-called Artificial intelligence to automate tasks AI that can replace human analysis and deduction is still just so much science fiction...
The Principles of Money and Wealth Management and Trading Profits Capture will be with us for centuries to come no matter the type of Money, Country, currency Forex or Crypto the future brings. Most importantly when you master the concepts of the truly great Authors and Market Masters you begin to accumulate the kind of FU money and knowledge where you create your own job and role and never answer to a boss but in fact the Managers are there to help enable your continued success basically they show you respect or watch you walk to new opps.