100% forget about the skydive gig.. You´ve invested in your aviation career now please don´t go waste it on a fun and play (please do that in you´re time off). Right now is a good time to enter the industry - and you could potentially regret for the rest of your life that you chose fun before income. Later on, and not necessarily decades, but years, away you can go back if you won´t to and feel like it - nobody know if your commercial aviation career will allow for the same. Best of luck.
Kmax.