Since there are .NET jobs where you live, I would say try and get a job doing that so you can get experience as developer rather than getting experience in a pa

Since there are .NET jobs where you live, I would say try and get a job doing that so you can get experience as developer rather than getting experience in a particular language. Developers learn new languages all of the time. Instead of worrying about a specific language, learn what's common to all programming languages first (software development cycle, testing, VCS's, etc.) because employers (speaking from my own experience) value those skills rather than knowledge in a particular language. You might also want to check out IronPython (http://ironpython.net/ http://ironpython.net/) which is basically Python for .NET.