No research jobs available without moving around a lot

Kids + husband + house

Change career... am experienced programmer (FORTRAN)

Got job eventually because knowlege of FORTRAN

Worked for 1st time on Unix, thought it was cool

Learned 'c'. s'ok

Learned tcsh, even wrote programs in it (bad choice, but still cool learning experience)

Discovered Perl accidently (providence??)

After 25 years finally accept that there is a language better than FORTRAN

Start falling in love with Perl, becoming born-again programmer

Convince boss and co-workers that Perl is natural language of choice for what I do (not web)

Happy as a pig in sh..