I think this depends on your ambitions. As someone who made the transition from math education to CS I knew that I wanted to be a seriously good engineer makin

I think this depends on your ambitions. As someone who made the transition from math education to CS I knew that I wanted to be a seriously good engineer making top of market. One of the first things I did was build myself a curriculum similar to https://teachyourselfcs.com/ https://teachyourselfcs.com/ (not sure it existed back then). I'm pretty confident this is a big part of what's made my career both because it's trivialized most interviews and because being competent up and down the stack is rare enough that I can often generate outsized impact with relatively small changes. Obviously this is not what everyone wants in life, but it's a fairly straightforward path to career success and financial independence. Aside: any good curriculum definitely needs to include building, learning is not a spectator sport.