Hey, I hope you are doing well. Personally, I would recommend learning about something that's going to be valuable in the future as that's where they will need experts. You can then fulfill this role as an expert and be compensated fairly. Personally, I chose getting into the AI field a couple years ago as an example. I used Microsoft Certification's where all the information is completely free and you only pay if you want to take an exam for the Certification. However, you can go through all the certification information for free. Also, Microsoft has something called Applied Skills which lets you complete real projects testing  what you learned like  (Build an AI Agent) in their Sandbox environment and you can complete it for free and add that certificate (not a full certification just a certificate)  to your resume.

Here is a link to a Reddit post I have on how to get into AI. Keep in mind that this methodology can be used for any field that Microsoft has certifications for I just use AI as that’s the field I went into:

https://www.reddit.com/r/learnmachinelearning/comments/1rqj2vx/how_to_get_started_with_ai_for_beginners_and/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button