Bored and want a hobby + possible income source

Right now I'm stuck on whether to go with learning Russian or learning one of the programming languages Python and Java. Russian seems to be the best language to learn when one factors in difficulty, as it is not too hard like Mandarin but not too easy like French either. I would hope to either become a translator or just steal English language web content and post it in .ru and make money online that way. But then I wonder how viable such may be, if Google translation improves. With Python and Java they also are not too difficult or easy, but I am concerned that I would hate to be a programmer (no offense).

So my question is, if you could go back in time to the day you settled down to learn programming, knowing what you know now, would you choose to learn programming or would you switch to learning Russian?

https://www.chatbots.org/ai_zone/viewthread/3688 -- Mens Latina chatbot converses in ancient Latin.