What resources would you recommend, and do you have any advice for someone who is just starting their career?
If you're not ready for a big commitment (and even if you are), I'd recommend taking some classes too get a feel for the subject. Khan Academy has two (or you can google around for more) that look pretty good. The just-plain-Biology one covers a surprising amount of useful information. The one on Genetics is useful too, although you might want to skip past some of the stuff about cross-breeding animals and whatnot.
Another thing you can look at is Synthetic Biology, which is biology plus design, biology for hackers. Synbio says biology has been too interested in describing and cataloguing, and not interested enough in building. So even though what we can do is pathetically simple next to the evolutionary process that designs new organisms, we can still do little things like making human beings immune to all viruses and designing cyanobacteria that produce crude oil from air, water and sunlight. If you're interested in Synbio you should check out the iGEM competition, which is a major event and an organizing site for useful information.
If you don't feel like crawling around the iGEM database of standardized biological parts (it's like the library docs for Life) you could look at these videos instead: https://www.ibiology.org/playlists/synthetic-biology/
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I'm only in the middle of my second semester and through taking a few biochemistry classes in advance and reading though the papers of our universities research groups it's already starting to come together a bit. Things start to click and I'm getting pretty far in trying to understand and reproducing some SOTA papers in weekend projects. For such a short amount of time of studying the subject, I think that's a pretty good payoff.