Agree with the sentiment expressed by everyone here. You could always take humanities courses at your local community college just to scratch that itch of learning something that you aren’t paid to do, or explore non-professional clubs and hobbyist groups about linguistics and sociology and such. It’s what I intend to do once I get my computer science and linguistics degree in 4-5 years.

Here are some linguistic websites I browse + some that were recommended to me throughout my linguistic classes. :D

• Glottolog and Omniglot are both language databases with articles that are nice to read about.
• foNETiks is part of the JISCM@il email discussion list for UK linguistic education/research communities.
• UCL Web Tutorials on learning Phonetics
• These two websites provide a nice database of native languages.

Maybe you can try computational linguistics? That is mostly AI development though, and I’m not sure what the market for that looks like right now. :V