I’ve used Blender and Maya in a professional environment for quite a few years. I much prefer Blender personally, but it’s a matter of personal preference. If you are looking to learn Blender I heartily recommend learning all the common keyboard shortcuts for scaling, rotating, extruding and the like. Not only are they brilliantly set up but it’s a tremendously fast way to work. You can do things like Scale a cube 24% on the x axis, move it two meters and rotate it 21 degrees without ever touching the mouse.