People are willing to pay big money to set aside time to learn a new, marketable skill. You currently have the opportunity to be paid while doing the same.
Yes, that's what I started to do. Unfortunately a lot of time was wasted cause it was always, just one more day, just this week, just till that other guy transfers to a new team, I kept thinking I'd finally get to work but just kept getting pushed back.
Having been in this situation it’s so incredibly difficult. Especially if it happens early career you don’t know what you don’t know. It ends up becoming tedious for people with work ethic which is like to consider myself having. Your soul wants to be productive and you know you aren’t. Maybe it’s an ego thing. Or just procrastination. I think you are right. Just that it’s hard to do.