C++ Vs. VB

Hi everyone. I have taken courses on C++ and Visual Basic at the local community college and have been employed as a programmer in a vb environment and did some light C work at one place that I worked at in the past. From that experience and from my personal projects my opinion is that C++ is so much more difficult and time consuming to get anything done when compared to VB and I guess C# as well. I'm not knocking C++ and can understand why people love their pet language. My question is; besides developing an operating system, a compiler or a game are there certain types of programming that is best done on C++? AND is there certain type of projects that unless you are using C++ you are really using the wrong tool? If the answer is basicaly 'no' then that's cool. I'm not flame baiting and am not encouraging any kind of debating. People use what they're most comfortable with and or what they like the most. That's great. I'm curious about what if any benifts of taking the time to being a skilled Visual C++ vs taking the time to acheive same level in visual basic.