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It sounds you have a good basis for starting out. You'll want to find and incorporate other resources as you progress, of course. In your introduction post you mentioned that one of your reasons for studying Spanish is to widen your employment prospects: which do you think will be more important for you:
(a) being able to understand written Spanish, and to translate it for your colleagues who do not understand Spanish,
(b) being able to write business or professional documents in Spanish,
(c) being able to understand your customers who choose to speak to you in Spanish or who cannot speak English,
(d) being able to speak well at a normal conversational speed either one on one with your customors or publicly in front of a group.
(e) some combination of two or more of the previous four items.
Reading and listening are more passive skills; you have to know vocabulary and grammar well enough to recognize and understand what you see or hear. Of the two, listening can be more challenging, and the challenges are different depending on whether you are listening to a recording or interacting with one or more people. Your eventual goal with listening is to be able to understand ordinary conversations without having to ask other people to speak more slowly/carefully or to repeat themselves all the time.
Writing and speaking are more active skills, and as you get more advance you may find it useful to find someone who can give you feedback on your writing and on your speech. With writing you generally have more time to think through what you want to say, and you can take the time to edit it. With speaking your challenge is to practice enough that you don't have to stop every couple of words while you try to come up with the correct word for what you want to say.
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