Currently I have a job, but I have not gotten a raise in 2 1/2 years. Part of it was I struggled with a switch in procedure for half a year but then was able to turn it around. I will be at the half year review and numbers have been looking a lot better for the most part. I am going to discuss the cost of living with my boss (he is an economics major so might frame it from that angle in a casual way). Ot is good, but I am not sure how long that will be a thing so I don't want to solely rely on that. However, that is not what I am here to ask about.

I have been looking for jobs that use my larger pool of talents (Python and SQL). I applied to one job and it called me back 30 minutes later. In fairness it is a contractor for a larger company, but I was missing the VBA skill and PowerBI. They said they would talk to their boss and call me back on Monday for a yea or nay. I have applied to about 60 jobs in a week and it made me wonder if my limited time I have would be better spent on an automation script at my current job (mostly in PowerShell) and working on upskilling with Excel and PowerBI (and maybe Tableau, but Excel seems like a more urgent skill) or if I should say screw it and go full bore into the job search with Python and SQL. How do you balance upskilling vs looking for a job (especially when you have a job currently)?