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Don't think of yourself as junior, think of yourself concretely as a test/QA engineer in training or maintenance programmer (yeah it's not glamorous, but people are grateful to have them around), and as a specialist in something, Jquery/node, Firebug, selenium, Solr/lucene, hadoop, Postgres.

Get a book on ruby and learn to read/edit other people's ruby, python and javascript. And then you can clone django and rails repo's off github and modify them to do other stuff.. in les than 5 months.

(the only reason i recommend ruby over python is that Jruby is actively developed, where Jython just doesn't get mentioned much, and it's good to get familiar with JVM: everybody uses hadoop and SOLR, and they're tuning heap, GC, maxInlineSize, all that. It's worthwhile to learn PHP eventually, but that's a lot of backend languages (and I'm probably forgetting what it's like to learn your first language