I am a clinical worker and deputy chief physician engaged in traditional Chinese medicine. During my 16 years of medical practice, I realized that Chinese medicine will surely become the terminator of future medicine.
You can be interested in learning Chinese medicine, which is the greatest consciousness of Chinese people. Your choice will benefit you for life, and people are in society.
From the analysis of your motivation to learn Chinese medicine: you are purely a hobby, not a diploma, not food and clothing, which is an essential moral character to learn Chinese medicine. I believe you will enter the highest realm of Chinese medicine, so you can't stick to the textbooks of colleges and universities. Those books can only make you understand what Chinese medicine is at most, and will not make you wise. If you have a good foundation in classical Chinese, you should learn the Su language in Huangdi's Neijing, and then learn Lingshu, Treatise on Febrile Diseases and Golden Mirror, so that you can keep the charm of Chinese medicine in mind.