I'll second PMS (hurr hurr).

After following guides to get different renderers/transcoders going to play pretty much anything, the only negative that I've found with it is upgrading. A lot of the times, an upgrade to the software will result in previously playable files becoming unreadable by the PS3.

So I've stuck with the old saying, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." You find a version that works, and stick with it.

Well, now we know where Stephen Harper got it from...

It'd be after, and unless you're in Canadia, then no. I may work in the public sector, but I don't work like most of them do.

I'm not starting from zero, luckily.

I actually have the same problems every day... Just wrapped differently. A LOT of comments on here have helped me open my eyes a bit. I've taken the more "concerned" responses ("you're too old", "you're not in love with it because you're not doing it") with a grain of salt, and just as another reason to look at my career path more closely. In the end, I just have to do it. That's all there is to it.

What language was the original question... And I AM 30, just hit it this year. So?

This probably hits the nail on the head... The thing is (and I may have only glossed over it in the OP) that I DO have a background in programming. Most of my time at Cégep was spent programming... But I graduated from that program in '05 (I'm still a spring chicken, I would hope, at 30). So, while I've been "out" for a while, I do know the basics, would pick up OOP pretty easily again, and be able to continue on building experience. The problem is, there are SO MANY CHOICES to make, which is why I asked the original question. Gateway language fits that scope pretty well, tbh.

Actually, I'm pretty sure that even an entry level admin/entry level dev salary would be more than I'm making right now, after 6 years.

I have done .NET programming, but that was back in College. I was also deep in SQL and ASP dev for a little while, but then I turned to the hardware side, and have now become an "admin systems technician"... Which is basically glorified help desk. Thanks for the answer, it seems to be in accord with a few people on here, though I'm guessing a lot of it boils down to personal interest...

It's not that it isn't "my thing", for not having done it in 6 years... It's that the nature of the job that I've held hasn't lent much time to it, and I never really jumped into it during my off-time. That was spent gaming and playing the bagpipes. Just goes to show how priorities can change over the course of one's lifetime.