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You could do work at night on side projects to learn new skills.

Better if you could do it together with others. Join a study group of the tech you want to learn or even try going to relevant hackathons.

> a study group of the tech you want to learn

Aka an open source project that is written in the stack you want to learn.

That's not always available depending on where you live, but possibly a good idea.