Best Languages to Learn?

I've read that one should pick languages for he wants to do. Are there just like, a few languages, that when learned, would cover pretty much every job?

I'm a programming nub. I've just turned seventeen and I'm only halfway through a high-school Java course. >.>

if you like MS, c# is a good start too.
I went thru this path in college:
vb.net (horrible...) --> Cobol (horrible too... even the oop is horrible in cobol...) --> Java (good!) --> c# (its a copy paste of java...)

The language i enjoyed the most was java with NetBeans5 or JCreator.