Hello and thank you for your question!

In my opinion knowing how to program computers is one of life's essential skills, like knowing how to type on a keyboard. Once you know how to program in any language then you learn the logic of computers, and then learning another language, like VBA is easy. Whether VBA is the language you focus on, or Matlab, or whatever, is going to be up to your employer. I, myself do not know how to program proficiently in VBA. But I do know (and I am showing my age here) BASIC, PASCAL, and LOGO. I have done a very minor amount of coding in VBA. So if you have the time, then yes, I would recommend learning to program a computer.

Yours, in service, and best wishes for success!

Jason