Java, views and advice.

So I somehow managed to lead myself into learning Java. I have to ride it out for the moment becuase I have a major Comp Sci project to do, and I don't know any other languages (well, apart from the usual VB, Delphi, Turbo Pascal - not very useful for a final year project).

Question is, should I stick with Java after I finish university and try and get a job with that? Or should I abandon it and move on to a different language?

So far, I like Java, it is stupidly verbouse, but that kind of reminds me of Turbo Pascal, so it's no biggy. Java seems really strict when it comes to OO, which is giving me a real headache seeing as this is the first OO language I've used.

I think the main reason I like it is that it's cross platform. But I'm willing to learn something else if it's going to be better for me in the long-run (job wise). Any suggestions?

If you need a low level language (for system and performance-critical programming), you need C. C++ is complicated and sucky; Java and .NET will never be lower-level languages.

If you need a high level language (for applications, web and rapid prototype programming), you need Python or Ruby. Can do with PHP and Perl in some cases. Java and .NET are too cumbersome in Java's case retarded to do the job.

Java and .NET just don't have a place; if they exist is because Sun and Microsoft shove them up managers asses, and the idiot clueless ones (i.e. the majority of them) do whatever acronyms they read in a stupid magazine.

But open source rarely has retarded managers leeching off the money and dealing with their low TCO, enterprise-grade stupidity. Open source is directed by the people who knows. Hence, there are more C/Python/Ruby open source projects (also C++, because some people like it) than Java and .NET.