Given you are interested in working on new ideas, it seems like you are looking at programming from entrepreneurial point of view. If that's true, focus on the

Given you are interested in working on new ideas, it seems like you are looking at programming from entrepreneurial point of view. If that's true, focus on the problem you want to solve and then pick up tools along the way. Programming is a great skill to have and will go a long way. If you are looking at programming to gain employment then probably I would pick up data analysis within customer support domain rather than software development at this point in your career. Your employment prospects will improve many folds if you are able to perform data analysis providing industry insight having worked in the industry. Don't throw away your experience, use it for operational analytics.