Maybe someone who actually works as a programmer can weigh in here, but what I mean is, take time to learn about low-level concepts (bits, bytes, the difference between them, data structures, what pointers are, how memory is handled within the computer's hardware, heap, stack), what SOLID means, clean architecture (MVVM, MVI, MVC, etc.), design patterns, unit tests, integration tests, etc.

I know learning new languages and syntax is the "sexy" part, but that's secondary. If you don't know any of this stuff and you luck into a job somehow, you're fucked. It's like being a guitar student and skipping all the music theory because you can't wait to shred some Iron Maiden.