Why burn all that learning time to get a startup job, probably with reduced salaries and equity that might amount to zero if it fails. This is thesame risk you will face with your own startup but the difference is that the upside or equity is bigger if your startup takes off and you are doing it with the one language you know.
Wow. That just made me feel old and sad. Wasn't it just a few years ago that everyone had to know C and C++?
I am sure there are exceptions or other reasons to this, but I feel that once the universities switched over to Java, C/C++ went on a big decline.
Speed, timing, or control; and the first is less true that it has been.
Though it's generally true that most of my friends prefer Java over C/C++. I might be different because I learned programming in high school and started with C.