I started as a Perl guy! Still use it for writing crawlers and text manipulation at command line.
If you think you are going to be working for a major company or have a lot of mid to SOHO clients then .NET (formerly .asp) using C# will be a smart choice. VB and VBScript are deprecated ie support from M$ will at some point disappear.
Also learning basic programming is likely better to start with than a language. Knowing how to determine the solution ti a problem and diagram the flow and functions ie for->Next while-> loop or if-> then is more important than knowing a language. Learning a language is for the most part learning syntax and garbage collection/disposal of the variables. If you understand the basics of programming then you can pick up any language quickly, that's what the docs and reference material is for. My first year I learned a lot of Perl, too much JS and Java and just enough C to understand Perl a bit better.
