@digimon - maybe that is why you are "Unemployed and looking"?
VB is the language (basic) that wont die. It was developed in 1963, before projects were big enough to need structured programing to be able to debug properly, and to be sure that the code was syntactically correct. It evolved into a semi structured, semi object oriented programing language, so it is not syntactically rigorous for either the data or the code. The C programming language was designed much later in 1972 as a structured programming language. Basic is still around in the VB incarnation mostly because old farts like me wont stop using it to develop small quick applications which do not benefit from the portability, code reuse, syntactically rigorous and other assorted features of the latest incarnations of C. Clearly C/C+/C++/C# are far superior for programing than VB, but for commercial reasons in an IT environment where you are not involved in large projects (an O/S, a large Enterprise software application, etc.) and more in support or smaller projects you will probably want to know VB so you can get a decent job.