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Re: Money vs. Perl

by Akhasha (Scribe)
on Mar 21, 2005 at 06:39 UTC ( [id://441131]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Money vs. Perl

I've recently done something obliquely similar. I used to work for a company writing casino games in Java. At first it was good, the team was great and there were lots of interesting problems, but what got to me in the end was what we were making. I'm not fond of gambling. I can't help but zoom out and see it as a tool for the redistribution of money, generally from people who are already poorer to people who are already richer. Not that banning it and driving it underground would help, I've come to see the rise of gambling as a failure of the education system's statistics syllabus. (MIT Blackjack teams aside)

My subsequent and current job involves a lot of Perl and Debian Linux sysadmin work. At first just the feeling that I was making something (network monitoring) of real use to somebody was good enough. But I'm learning that managment of software development is normally quite poor and this place is no exception.

Recently I was offered my old job back for nearly twice the gross figure that I made before. I surprised myself by not turning it down immediately, but after a week of consideration I did decline the offer. Partly because Perl seems to embrace the environment it runs in while Java seems to shun or substitute it, partly because I like the small team size here, but mainly because of the ethical difference in what the two jobs end up producing.

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Re^2: Money vs. Perl
by cog (Parson) on Mar 21, 2005 at 10:37 UTC
    I was offered my old job back for nearly twice the gross figure that I made before.

    The way I see it, you were being underpaid :-) Otherwise they wouldn't offer you twice as much as you made before.

    Back in the place I was before, when I said I was leaving, they didn't made me an offer; instead, they asked me to tell them how much I wanted to make and told me they would give me that figure. Of course, the fact that they had been telling me they couldn't pay me more for so long and then the sudden change made me even more decided about leaving than I was before...

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