You can be whoever you want to be in the crypto space! Here the opportunities are limitless you just have to find your niche.
Cracking the industry isn't that much of a task, you just have to understand that, the industry is a currency related industry which means you can do what ever you're good at like offering service or selling goods while accepting bitcoin or other altcoins as payment options and you'll be able to benefit from the industry. You can also partake in the industry from the aspect of an investor and still get the best out of the industry.
Do understand that you don't have to partake in all the industry has to offer so you don't get distracted. The like of NFT trading and others like farming, staking or mining etc, it isn't a must to partake in this trends to get the best out of the industry but it'll be a positive getting some ideas on them so you can try them out too to see if you could get some profit engaging in them.
The opportunity in the industry are quite many so you have to understand that some of this opposite are just distractions and an example is the memecoins trends, if you want to to partake don't put much thought into them so you don't get disappointed if it does end badly with them as predicted.