I'm at a bit of a cross-roads, career wise. Do I want to continue with the current, semi-technical path that I'm on? Or do I want to go back to my "roots" and try to find some design/production work? It all stems from a co-worker telling me that I should start getting certifications - Microsoft, Cisco, whatever. That will, of course, cost money, but it could be worth money in the long run, right? On the other hand, there's the design/production stuff. I guess the learning curve for that involves getting up to speed on XML and XHTML and CSS stuff (I do know a little CSS, thank goodness). There's also the programming aspect - ASP, more Perl, PHP, SQL, and any other TLA I can think of. I have a bit of a problem with languages - my brain just doesn't seem to be wired that way. There have actually been studies about this, I think. If you start to acquire languages early in life, you have an easier time. I took French in middle and high school, then a little in college. It shows - I don't really remember any of it. I took PASCAL in college, as well as some C programming courses - nothing. It's all just GONE. So I tend to think of learning a language as being along the same lines as smashing my head against a brick wall. Or something like that. Anyone have any suggestions? It's like I'm in the middle of a "choose-your-own-adventure," but I'm living it. Which way do I go???