I'm working as a pure perl developer at the moment but I think this will be my last for two reasons.

1. perl jobs (at least in my experience) seem to earn between $10k to $20k (AUD) less a year than .NET or Java programmers.
2. Its becoming harder to find perl jobs, I get an email from seek.com.au every day but I only see a perl job about every 6 months or so.

I love perl but $10k AUD a year is most of a new motocross bike every year.

As for the company I work for, they are like Amway but evil (a multi level marketing company). So as you can imagine I do a lot of DB, tree, creditcard and rewards processing all of which is written in perl.

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