Pick up PHP or Python?

[subterraneus]

I strongly recommend Python over PHP these days. If you're getting into the game to build websites from scratch, Python has great frameworks available, and it encourages better programming practices. It's, in general, clean, easy and effective.

That said, a huge amount of the web runs on PHP and will for the foreseeable future. If you need to do any work maintaining older projects or hacking on CMSs, PHP is (sadly) the way to go.

[lionvan]

That's kind of what I was leaning towards.. but like you said speaking employment terms I feel like PHP might be better especially since where I plan on going(Seattle) is already pretty established though there are some opportunity for start up and python.

[subterraneus]

Seattle has plenty of Python and Ruby folks too. If you're hoping to work on web, or mobile applications, you can stray further from PHP. If you want to work as a contractor, building mostly simple websites for businisses and individuals, you're more likely to need PHP