I'm going to take a very different stance here from others.
First, you should ask yourself - what kind of engineer do you want to be. Why are you building?
Then, read about the people who became the best and their early days. What did they do when they were in your position? Did they study a set of topics or did they pursue their passions? Taking and highly-weighing advice from people not at the top of the field could be very detrimental to your development as an engineer.
From reading books like: Coders at work, Masters of Doom, Making of Karateka, you will realize that the best engineers were driven by their ideas and projects very early on. They ended up learning to make things happen. But don't take my word for it, find these people, study their stories and pick the path you would enjoy the most.
This approach will not just make you a strong career engineer, but could turn you into one of the greats - the people that get to push the field forward.
First, you should ask yourself - what kind of engineer do you want to be. Why are you building?
Then, read about the people who became the best and their early days. What did they do when they were in your position? Did they study a set of topics or did they pursue their passions? Taking and highly-weighing advice from people not at the top of the field could be very detrimental to your development as an engineer.
From reading books like: Coders at work, Masters of Doom, Making of Karateka, you will realize that the best engineers were driven by their ideas and projects very early on. They ended up learning to make things happen. But don't take my word for it, find these people, study their stories and pick the path you would enjoy the most.
This approach will not just make you a strong career engineer, but could turn you into one of the greats - the people that get to push the field forward.