I cannot imagine how being 35 going back for a degree would feel like given that they'll graduate at best when they're near 40.
The problem started last week in a different programming community where someone mentioned that there might not be enough job opportunities for beginners and that it's better to invest my time to PHP or C# instead.
I'll skip that this comment was accepted with positivity to a community which is strictly made to help beginners to learn programming but, he genuinely made me think: Is it a way that this will end bad? Is there a possibility that after reading and learning for huge amount of hours daily that I won't be able to offer my service to add value to a company or customers?
What makes this decision heavier is my perception that I'm not young enough to afford to make a wrong choice (I'm 30 years old) and I'm not from U.S. (which I might say the job market for Python and Ruby developers looks bigger). To add to that even more, I'm not planning to stay in my country but I'll most definitely stay in Europe.
To sum it all up, should I consider the search results from monster and other career websites, coupled with the mentioned advice given to me (and, in effect, many beginners who read that forum) as good measurement of a programming language's job prospects or is there some kind of flawed perception involved?
