I don't know what job to look for after learning AE and maya special effects.

1,.AE is not mainly for special effects (although it is called special effects). It is mainly used for 2D effect synthesis and simple animation. General titles or simple 2D special effects can be competent, and you said that you have studied C4d, so the main AE is excellent with C4d, which is very suitable for the landlord.

2.maya meets a wide range of people, such as modelers, renderers based on rendering, animators based on binding, special effects artists based on special effects, and so on. You can go to maya Post Bar for some help, where bar owners is very caring and usually gives detailed answers.

In my opinion, I don't talk about artistic attainments, just talk about aesthetics. I recommend that you put it in the first place, and you can learn skills. But aesthetics is very valuable for artistic sense, although it is rarely valued. . . I suggest that you find your own interests (mograph design, color composition principle, and even the photographic color sense of some national geography), and then study it carefully, and then cooperate with your own technology, which is the "tasteful" CG.

4. Where to find a job, or what direction to choose, please decide for yourself. I suggest you go to Maya Post Bar and ask, there will be many people there to help you solve this problem.