What track should I venture down?

I think I really depends on what you are good at and what you enjoy doing. If you like PHP try to become really good at app architecture and design, for this I recommend learning the laravel framework. I think you will be more attractive to employers when you have have a solid understanding of software design principles and learn how to "talk the talk". You can apply the same principles to any computer language you choose. Since you mentioned you have done java c++ etc. Then this should be easy for you. Jobs will always be available to people with these type of skills.

Michael. Definitely gave me some things to look into. I mentioned in a comment that the hard part is finding that area where it feels "right". I had done some Swift programming and briefly looked at Ruby. I run into the problem of being too curious and looking at multiple languages to see which one feels better. Only problem is I don't have a lot of time to hop around as I am hunting for jobs now. I appreciate the advice. I'm going to look into the Google stuff you mentioned and try out some of the JavaScript, Android courses.

A well rounded portfolio will definitely help. You can offer your services for free to friends or local busineses and ask for their testimonials in exchange. Build a really cool freelance website with your github account. And display your work. Make sure that your projects are good quality because people can tell how much experience you have by looking at your code.

"I think I'm just not sure if I'm creative enough to really design a great client side website or if I'd be better at the back-end. I know this question is somewhat confusing but any advice is greatly appreciated."

That's one of the areas where Treehouse has been helpful. I took the CSS courses and it really helped in terms of making websites look good. The current trend is to build minimal, flat design, so that's good because you probably don't want to get caught up in too much graphic design, if that's not your strength.

I would look at http://dribbble.com/ and www.awwwards.com/

for ideas and inspirations for building sites. You'll notice that sites don't need to have ton of heavy duty design to look really good.