It's not clear whether you've career aspirations or purely a fun/hobby interest? Anyway if the latter both would fit the bill quite nicely but more so the FOSS alternative, simply due to 0$$ up front outlay and generally functionality as already mentioned differs between the two. Although that said Blender (2.8x) in my…
If they didn't care about the software then they would write something along those lines "Knowledge of one of the main 3d modeling packages required" and i actually found some job posting like that. They write Maya/3ds max because their pipeline is based around one of the 2 and they are quiete similar interface and tools…