The job market is a somewhat important part of life. Even if you prefer to hate work and coworkers on principle, it still helps pay for other things. Specifics

The job market is a somewhat important part of life. Even if you prefer to hate work and coworkers on principle, it still helps pay for other things. Specifics are a useful starting point for getting to fundamentals; trying to learn abstracted stuff without having anything to tie it too tends to be a bit tricky. Even for adults, which is why "here's a novel to help illustrate what we mean by these things" is a thing (for example, The Phoenix Project). It's also why math tends to start with arithmetic and memorizing times tables, and only after that gets to more fundamental stuff like algebra and then calculus.