I don't understand why people are unwilling to sit down and figure something out. For instance, try sitting down and writing a kernel module. Companies don't care that you have extensive abilities, but rather can you work with their code, figure out how it works, so you can fix bugs and add new features. I suggest you spend time with whatever language you enjoy and maybe find a job you're interested in and start using the language that company uses.

As a current college student, when I toured schools, there were some that advertised theory based studies, and others that advertised hands-on experience. It seems to me that the Hands-on schools are producing more thinkers than tradesmen, but this is not garunteed.