in reply to Perl Jobs
In my experience, there are just tons of perl jobs opening
up out there recently, mostly all CGI related. I get calls
weekly from my resume hanging around on monster.com, which
I've been too lazy to take down. All the recruiters are
asking for someone who has 'a year of experience' or
'two years of experience', but, there is such a shortage
out there, that it seems almost too easy to get hired.
I'm a contractor, and I've seen some purely awful perl code
out there, by people who obviously have no knowledge of
how to program, but just know how to cut and paste from
the abundance of perl scripts out there. What I've come
to find is that employers who have hired people who can
just hack perl and can't really program, have eventually
ended up in trouble when their employees can't fix things
fast, and they have to shell out money to contractors.
Perl, with its TMTOWTDI philosophy, lends itself out to
poor code when in the wrong hands, and many employers seem
to be moving more in the direction of 'I'd rather hire
someone who doesn't know perl, but knows how to program
and can learn fast.' If you were to just get the basics
of perl down, such as variables, subroutines, learning
your way around man pages, basic regular expressions, etc.,
It shouldn't be all that hard to come across someone who
is happy that you know what you're doing, and is willing
to cut you slack on not knowing too much perl. Hope this
helps, and good luck!
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