That makes sense. Companies in Greece VERY rarely pay for staff training (and only in technology fields when this happens), the training programs of OAED (Greek ‘Organisation for the Employment of the Workforce') are usually laughably bad, as are the majority of public IEKs (Institutes of Vocational Training), no one wants to invest money in personal improvement when they can barely get by....
Unfortunately, the numbers are very realistic, and very sad...
Java definitely does not suck. There is a reason it runs virtually everywhere, from SIM cards to most servers of the world through Spring