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. >.>

>>44

Or starting with (define-syntax for the Schemers.  Or ending with IMMEDIATE for the Forthers.  Extensible compilers ftw.  AFAIK all other languages fail.

But >>41 didn't mean macros in the real meaning of the word.  They meant the Microsoft meaning, that is, one of their proprietary extension languages which change from year to year (WordBasic -> VBA -> VB.Net?)