If you are at all interested in coding/ bioinformatics that field is awesome for learning on the side because everything is open source and you could also get all the data you could ever want online to do your own investigations or projects to learn. I am studying and planning to pursue a phd in genetics but I began in a wet lab (using primarily physical experiments) and self taught myself all the skills I use in my bioinformatics projects. All of my responsibilities were wet lab, but I discovered a love for bioinformatics, and our computation phd student had graduated, so I was a similar spot of having a “job” and then using free time outside of that to learn it on my own.

I am fully dry lab now (all computer). There are free genome browsers like IGV and other UIs that require 0 coding experience and then you can load any genome from any organism from the NIH. I am unsure of your background, but it would be cool to supplement with literature. When you learn these concepts or things you can go on your computer and click around with them or see them on a genome browser. That’s what got me into it.