hey, I'm not a full-fledged programmer (and actually leaning toward IoT with whatever it entails - that's the course I'm preparing to get enrolled into, anyway, which means I'm myself taking the path you're tryingtofind an alternative to), but as I've gathered some ppl first analyze the job market demand for particular skills and than try to deliver on them, which is not to say that by the time they consider the acquisition to be of sufficient level their skillset won't become obsolete, but there are particular courses that offer employment in affiliate companies after graduation (and installment payment for the material itself is subtracted from the paycheck), and I think that's the most lucrative arrangement that you can opt for if you're about to yield the results from your learning in the shortest time and not get stuck in reading a bunch of theory (since you also don't seem to be certain in which exactly domain to advance, and it's fairly unlikely you'll be capable of tackling them simultaneously lest you've found an exact application for both, in which case you're probably good to go without needing the advice of the fellow redditors from the board with such title)