I work for a huge telco as a Systems Engineer. Allegedly, my job duties are maintaining production and development servers that run some massive report generating software.

Initially, I was nothing more than a UNIX admin and glorified help desk. However, I have used perl scripts to automate server bounces, daily status checks, and about 75 other things that would take upwards of half an hour to do myself. Additionally, I have been asked to develop a perl application or two for some users to help them monitor the databases.

I never thought that I'd get to hack perl for fun and profit, but hey, stranger things have happened.