I'm currently studying computer science and know people who have already graduated and in my part of the the world (Britain) it's not hard getting a job at all in the computing field.
Programming is awesome, it's the best part of my degree. If you're willing to put a little time into it, I would recommend starting off with either Java, C# or Python, all great languages used widely in the industry and have their own merit but aren't excessively difficult as some other languages. Slowly build up your knowledge about object orientation and get to grips with programming, you can use
projecteuler.net as a way of testing your progress and maybe take on a small project, try and make it something fun that you're interested in otherwise you'll get bored. One example is my friend built an android application that scans products to track all the food he ate and have the information display graphically both on the app and a website he built.
After you've done that I would HIGHLY recommend learning some SQL, it is incredibly useful and important for developing databases. I personally hate it but still have to know about it for me to get a decent job. I wouldn't say it's a difficult language but it's one of those things that once you get it, it becomes easier. Sadly I still haven't 'gotten it' yet haha.
Finally if you have some interest in web development, you could go on to learn more about HTML, CSS, PHP, MYSQL(not massivly different from SQL), XML and understand industry standard applications like WordPress and Joombla.
I apologies if I came across as being condescending but I wasn't sure where you were at with your programming skills, I wish you the best of luck mate