Maybe my perspective is of help to you: I have a Master's in teaching English and Spanish as a second language (somehow related to Linguistics I guess - at least I had several linguistics courses during my studies) but decided to shift my career to become a ML Engineer/Data Scientist. Given your interests in the quantitative parts of Linguistics and Computational Linguistics, this might be a potential career path for you as well? During my job search in the ML/DS field I've come across some positions as Computational Linguists and Machine Translation Engineer positions - and some of them do not require a very heavy tech background. Regarding self-teaching: I did 11 months of learning Python/basics of Data Science and Machine Learning on the side (ca. 30 min per day) and then 5 months of full-time learning, but I suppose you could get a job/internship in the field with fewer months of self-teaching than I did. Hope this is somehow helpful to you - and I'm happy to answer any questions you may have!
Maybe my perspective is of help to you: I have a Master's in teaching English and Spanish as a second language (somehow related to Linguistics I guess - at least I had several linguistics courses during my studies) but decided to shift my career to become a ML Engineer/Data Scientist. Given your interests in the quantitative parts of Linguistics and Computational Linguistics, this might be a potential career path for you as well? During my job search in the ML/DS field I've come across some positions as Computational Linguists and Machine Translation Engineer positions - and some of them do not require a very heavy tech background. Regarding self-teaching: I did 11 months of learning Python/basics of Data Science and Machine Learning on the side (ca. 30 min per day) and then 5 months of full-time learning, but I suppose you could get a job/internship in the field with fewer months of self-teaching than I did. Hope this is somehow helpful to you - and I'm happy to answer any questions you may have!