No question it pays to have skills that pay the bills.
Knowing how to make a coffee
Lifeguarding
Serve a table
Skills that have a market value.
The problem comes when the value of the skills is not clear.
Sure we can teach skills in the hope we find a use for them in the game we are playing.
But perhaps it makes more sense to play the game and only then work to acquire skills that actually help us play a better game.