Hello guys. I've just started learning about Mikrotik devices. What do you recommend?
Unfortunately there is not a good "Everything you wanted to know about Mikrotik but were afraid to ask" book, you need to go through bits and pieces on Mikrotik official help pages:
and searching on the forum.
Browse section "Useful user articles":
and, first thing, look for topics tagged as "rtfum" :
https://forum.mikrotik.com/tag/rtfum
What kind of road map did you follow?
The point is not so much the lack of a road map, it is about the lack of roads.
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Do you think it makes sense to further your career on Mikrotik devices?
What kind of questions is this?
This doesn't look like a user to me, but rather an interactive Artificial Deficiency.
Amazon is chock-full of RouterOS books and guides, just pick one up and study it.
Do you decide what I ask?
See, this one's the same...
Fortunately, no.
Thank you brother. I will buy a book.
I am not sure if that was a joke or just to test if it was a chatbot.
I am not aware of anything not discussed in which book to buy and those are all outdated.
MikroTik has this https://mikrotik.com/mfm/books, but it is mostly a rehash of what's in the previous link. About the only exception is The MikroTik Scripting Book by Nigel Bowden, There are some newer ones, but not English language.
The MikroTik forum, MiktroTik documentation, youtube videos, and trying things on real mikrotik routers in a lab is how I learned what I have about MikroTik.
I can recommend you several youtube channels such as: The Network Berg, Mikrotik Indonesia, of course official Mikrotik youtube channel, Mikrotik masters, TheNetworkTrip and of course Mikrotik forum.
And go step by step, you have many topics here about how to set up your device. What is the best practice, what to do, what NOT TO DO etc.
The only other thing I’d add would be stick with rOS7 guides and even with these I would decide at the outset whether I might want to go the wireless (n-ac) or newer WiFi (ax) routes, because there are some minor differences that mean what works for one my not work for the other.
If it were me, I’d prolly start playing with an inexpensive hEX (5-port non-wireless device) then move up to a hAP AX, which pretty much does everything the hEX does, but adds WiFi6 into the mix. The main idea is to get to know the devices, what they can do, how to use them with Winbox (MT’s standalone utility), the commandline when you get a bit more adventurous and netinstall, when things break to the point a reset wont work.
Of course, if you have some cash spare, you could always enrol for an official MTCNA course in your area, which covers off most of what you need to know over a few days. These are often run by MT distributors in each country. You can check MTs website for distributors in your part of the world and make contact with them.
Welcome aboard!
Thank you for your reply. I have a CCR2116-12G-4S Plus. I'd like to know what I can do.
That’s pretty nice router for learning 
What you can do with it ? Well pretty much whatever you want. That’s quite a powerful device.
I've just started working at an ISP. I want to specialize in this field 
Thank you for your answer. My English is not good, I use translation. And the Mikrotik documentation is very hard for me but i will learn English and Mikrotik devices.
Nice, I would certainly recommend Network Berg, he has some free MTNCA or whatever the heck the letter mean learning series. He also likes EVE NG labs and I certainly recommend you do two things.
Learn and get a lab environment simulator and two, for fun get CHR license and a cheap VPS in the cloud to host it on, you can get them for 6-7$US per month with server near you.
Then you will be really well setup to play and test and lab all kinds of setups.
His latest lab setup is a monster that fits right into your job in terms of ISP focus.
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Can't I learn with my own device without getting a lab environment simulator?
Wow, I thought you were joining an ISP, and wanted to specialize in the field.
The advice provided was simply geared towards that goal.
Of course you can use your own very capable device to learn but that has limitations.
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My device's license level is 6. Are there any limits?
I meant limits to the complexity of any ISP type or complex network type setup.