Career Advice

Hello, I'm currently a forester who graduated 6 years ago and I'm thinking of going back to school to take a 1 year accelerated masters in GIS. My two main questions are:

1, how hard to people find it to transfer from a career that uses GIS a little bit to one that focuses on it? Most my experience is collecting and editing GPS data to make maps.

2, how much communication with other people do you usually encounter day to day in your jobs? I'm coming from some isolating jobs and looking for something where I don't go days saying a few sentences to other people.

Thanks!