Hi,

I got laid off a couple of months ago and am in the midst of the whole job search process. With that in mind, one thing I am wanting to have a good idea of is my marketability.

I have been programming in Perl for close to 15 years now, but I think my use of the language has been pretty limited in scope.

Now, my last job included an application called CA eHealth. I did a ton of Perl programming involving this application. (In fact, I largely lost my job due to my employer’s decision to replace this application.)

There is one particular kind of scripting that I just love, but I am frankly unsure if it is sufficiently marketable. What I love doing is having Perl read data from a number of sources (databases, flat files) and produce desired data. I just LOVE that kind of coding. I love the whole portion in between those two points. Data aggregation, coming up with one or more nested hash data structures, looping through the hashes and writing out data as needed. Sometimes needing to do math and/or stats as part of the data aggregation. Mining through lines of text and db queries, and so on.

My question is, is just the above thing I love to do marketable? I honestly do not know, but I sure hope so.


Tony

In reply to Perl Job Marketability Question - very important for me! by o2bwise

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