I would really like to get a job in medical ML, but without a related degree it seems impossible. I'm "only" a Veterinarian and I don't even get interviews...
A friendly suggestion: this attitude may be holding you back more than you realized before now.
What to do instead, is repeatedly ask yourself: "how can I do this?"
Apply this to many specific areas:
- How can I change my CV so it comes across differently?
- How can I begin a small startup without money or other resources?
- How can I move towards my goal without any new degree?
- How is my training in veterinary medicine an asset?
- How can I do medical ML for veterinary medicine?
- Et cetera...
You have a choice now to dig into your heels and say to yourself reasons why none of what I say above will work, and why your situation is truly and utterly hopeless.
OR you can say different things to yourself, maybe get a different result.
The objective reality is that I did not succeed. Somehow people think accepting that means I have a negative attitude. I haven't given up on ever working again, but I'm not delusional enough to think I haven't been unemployed for a long time.
You could try to start-up and then plan to get acquihired. Or go and do a PhD. It's never too late for more schooling.
I hate to ask why you believe this, because I see VC money being thrown at borderline low-lifes with mediocre ideas. There are so many "angel investors" on Twitter of companies I've never heard of...
The SV bubble can warp your brain, but an outsider's tip is to focus on your idea before you start worrying about funding it...
The chances of succeeding are excessively low, and the funding situation in Germany is very different. You mostly need to have revenue before you get funding. And when you aren't even employable on the normal labor market, then it is a lot harder still.
How about starting with a problem to solve? You don't need anything but a pen and paper. Gotta start somewhere.
In medical AI, you really need datasets. Of the most expensive kind, and lots of it.
You can fund it yourself with basically any income. Of course you will never get anywhere with an attitude like the one you currently have.
It's not the skill or resources that is the problem, it's the mindset.
You confuse results I observed with my "attitude". I am trying quite a few things. I am only observing negative results. That might look like a negative attitude, it is, however, reality.