[jerven]

Well what do you want to do? What kind of problems do you like to solve? Then look around and see what languages are commonly used and why they are used to solve that category of problems. Then try those languages, and form your own opinion.

I personally think languages are easy to learn enough to get stuff done. API's and libraries with their uses, corner cases is much more work. i.e. the java language specification is just one little book. But once you add all the common API's and libraries and how to interact with most common systems. i.e. DBMS and networks you have a small library.

In the end you are paid for solutions to problems, so learning to understand and solve problems is the most important.