Good luck with your career. Looks like you are off to a good start. Manual flying skills are important. Knowing all the right buttons to push on automatic airplanes can be learned quickly, manual flying skills can't. When I was flying Beach D18's the airplane in the attitude indicator had been missing for month. I guess the glue got old and it fell off but we still did ILS approaches to minimums. When I retired flying the B757 I found the hardest airport our airline flew into and flew there the last 6 years. Some studies call it the most dangerous airport in the world, TGU Honduras. It was all manual everything. Loved it.