The first code that I was actually paid for was written in PHP. I was a hungry student trying to earn some money and gather some experience. We were a small st

The first code that I was actually paid for was written in PHP. I was a hungry student trying to earn some money and gather some experience. We were a small studio making websites. There were enough customers, and my income depended directly on how many "projects" I could do in a short timeframe, so naturally, I wanted to do more, faster. Of course, PHP was the easiest way to achieve that goal. I would take a CMS, slap the design onto it, write some php and javascript code to make it behave as expected, and voila. The client was happy, my boss was happy and I got paid, but I was not happy at all, because the whole thing was soul-crushingly boring, stupid and I had already learned enough of a decent programming language to understand the shortcomings of php and be irritated by them. When I got an (unpaid) internship at a real company offering work on more interesting (non-web) projects, I left that php sweatshop as fast as I could, without ever looking back. Point is, if you want to spend the rest of your career slapping around icky php code (like my 17-year-old self), then by all means, learn nothing, talk about how it's the result that matters and do your best to keep your horizons as narrow as possible. good day.