Comment Beef up your statistics too (Score 1) 504
I'm a doctoral student in industrial & organizational psychology and work at a start-up. I'm also technically inclined, but by no stretch of the imagination a serious programmer. Good psychologists can set behaviorally based seeds for machine learning to increase accuracy from the get-go. Psychology & machine learning are very complementary, as are the statistics skills needed to make sense of big data - I would suggest you ensure your statistics skills are strong if they aren't already. That's usually not a problem for programmers since statistics boils down to algorithms.
I would expect your chances of falling into a job at hot-tech-company-of-the-month are low, but there are so many small companies trying to make sense of their data that I think you could carve out quite a niche while combining your interests. Best of luck!