I would suggest looking very seriously into Blender before dropping so much money on Maya if you might not need it. Blender is essentially a competitor to Maya and Max, but it also has reasonably advanced sculpting tools now.
@garciiia It's not the same for everyone, I tried blender guru when i started learning 3d, it was horrible frustrating. The best aproach for me was to think about modeling something very basic, then google about it or search for it on the blender manual.
@rollin I haven't had any problems like that in Blender 2.80 between the beta builds and RC2. I'd make sure that your PC meets the hardware requirements for Blender 2.80 first and to download it from the official site.
In what way are you having a hard time? I'm too coming from Modo, and have to say I like Blender 2.8 more and more. I'm not as fast there as in Modo yet (been working with Modo over 10 years, professional modeler), just digging into Blender 2.8 for a couple of weeks now. But getting faster by the day with practice, and I…