perm credit risk analyst to contract role at HF

I am currently in a reasonably steady perm job - corporate credit risk analyst at a BB, and I just bought a small house.

There is a potential role in FO at a small HF who do fundamental distressed debt. It is a contract role though 3-6 months to build a valuation tool in python. Before this, my plan was to save 50k to do an MFIN in a few years and do CFA1-3 to help with getting into investment mgmt/Trading. Should I just stick to that plan OR wait for another perm opportunity that is closer to markets/research? Or is this contract too good to pass, also how do I price myself, at market rate or below?

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