Stay away from the gaming industry, from everything I've read, it's a hellhole, especially to women. The medical industry has been good to me in the past, ther

Stay away from the gaming industry, from everything I've read, it's a hellhole, especially to women. The medical industry has been good to me in the past, there are plenty of women in powerful positions in the medical industry, in my experience. Also, medical is typically more resilient to recessions / general downturns. Finally, at the very least, you are making it more efficient for patients to get care. That's a lot more inspirational to me than selling ads and spying on people. Really take the first job she can get and stick it out for a year or two. That first job is the hardest, afterwards, it's a lot easier to land a job. As far as language, that's really just luck. The best way to hedge is to go to monster or dice and query each language in the area you think you will be living in. It seems like different areas have different predominant programming languages (oddly enough). It's usually C# or Java for backend, but there are some frontend frameworks too. When I was in college, I tried to learn as broadly as I could. That included how networks worked, how databases worked, how to write applications and how project management / development life cycle worked. All that has helped me. Always respect your craft and keep mastering it.