Yes, sometimes if you are unemployed you need financial stability fast or loose valuable resources and assets.

So you take what you can find for a job.

For some reason, getting a job from unemployment is often very difficult, while it is much easier to find a new position when you already employed.

You are more confident then, have a better stance in negotiation, etc.

If you have enough resources and assets to burn through, while skilling up without pay, you are quite lucky.