If I were you I would purchase a copy of Learning Perl (O'Reilly), and work your way through it. Make sure to get a current edition. Consider it an opportunity to exercise your mind, and to look at problems a new way. If you end up loving it, you should pursue it further. If you don't care for it too much, stop there and learn something else instead. Once you find the tools you love most, to the point that you can work with them (or study them) all day and still want more, assuming your aptitude is in line as well, you will find a use and find yourself useful to someone.

First get a proper keyboard though (or refrain from posting using your Blackberry -- that never worked out too well for me either.) Perl is forgiving, but it's not as forgiving as human readers of natural language.

Learn Perl. At very least it will broaden your mind, and that's really the only thing you can take with you anyway.