In the following code i want to make myself a program that will make it easier for me to do simple system administration tasks. Obviously the script is going to get a lot bigger but you see what im trying to do, Now the problem is instead of the & at the end of the line sending my command into the background, the shell sits and waits for the program to finish. I dont want that. Im also up for any positive critisism But please keep in mind i just started with perl a few days ago. 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

print "What do you want me to do?\n";
my $work = <STDIN>;
chomp $work;

   if ($work eq "permissions") {
     print `sh /root/scripts/security.sh&`;
       print "job sent into background\n";

} elsif ($work eq "apachelog") {
     print `perl /root/scripts/apachelog.pl&`;
       print "job sent into background.\n";

}

exit

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