I need study guidance. Time is no issue

I've been in to chess for a long time. The last 2 years I began trying to learn more openings and advance my scope of knowlege and play, I feel lost like i don't know what I'm doing. I have no clubs near by. There's one chess epicenter in the detroit area and its like a 45 min drive so I could go there for some OTB stuff occasionally and they host tournaments but I can't get there daily.

Basically, my job would allow me to be able to study chess all day, which is what i've been doing recently, but i don't really know how to prioritize what to learn. There's so many books on every chess subject imaginable. I just need a plan on what to do and when to do it. I could literally study 8 hours a day in front of a PC with a full size tournament board. If I had a regimin mapped out, I would wake up everyday and get to work. I just feel like i'm spinning my wheels, I just skim through a bit of info here, some more there. Should I just get an online coach? There's coaches at the chess shop I spoke of earlier, should I meet with one there 2-4 times a month? Or is there a study book out there that would help me figure this all out? Also, I don't have any chess database software or anything bc I don't know what's worth buying. I have the money to invest in something if it's going to help me improve. I've also been debating getting ranked and competing in a tournament, which i've never done, but I feel like I should study more before bothering with tourneys. Any advice would be great. thanks. 

Tactics are the vocabulary of chess.  Use the Chess Mentor courses on all the motifs like forks, pins, skewers, xrays, interference, mating patterns, discovered attacks, intermediate combinations: Well, you get the idea.  Do them all.  Do them over and over again until the patterns are as familiar to you as the multiplication tables.  Oh OK, Don't obsess over perfect.  I think Coach Heisman wants 70 to 80%.  Diminishing returns after that, but do go back and review.  Irritating, but necessary.

Learn your openings.  The Intermediate study plan lists some 40 or 50 common tournament openings that you should learn.  Just main line 10 to 15 moves deep.  Oh and yes, what are the typical plans for each side coming out of the opening?

Find an endgame book you like and try to at least learn enough not to embarass yourself.

Lots of tactics trainer either here or at chesstempo.com. Some may say that chesstempo.com is better for tactics because you get rewarded for solving the puzzles, rather than solving them quickly.

Spend a little time with openings, however not too deep and preferrably e4 e5 openings to begin with.

Read at least one endgame book, either Pandolfini's Endgame Course, Nunn's Understanding Endgames, or some of Silman's Complete Endgame Course: From Beginner to Master

Plus, don't forget to spend plenty of time playing, so you get to practise some of what you learned. In terms of playing try to play the majority of games at longer time controls (30+ mins, preferrably the new 45/45 at chess.com for live chess, also online chess here at chess.com, plus try going to your local chess club).

Lastly, do not forget to review what you have learned from time to time or otherwise you may end up forgetting it.

thank you both