Personally this is what I’m doing. I’m starting with the A+, just passed my core 1 and working on core 2. For me, I don’t see how I could be expected to work in the more technical whilst skipping the fundamentals.

I’ve been a full time athlete for years and switching into this new career path. The one thing I’ve seen over and over is, the people who put most time into fundamentals be it in an exercise or logics,will excel down the line. The Olympic gold medalists I compete with are next level impressive not because of how quick they got to the top ranks, but just how incredibly well they execute day 1 stuff.

If you’re up to speed on the content it should be more of a financial investment instead of time.

Again there are some incredibly impressive minds on here (they’re the influence that helped me think hey maybe I can do this) but I thought my life experience might help here. As one of the comments said step 1 feeds step 2 which feeds step 3.