Looking at the content here I would say that chromatic, jcwren and tilly seem to have some work experience between them. In fact I learned Perl on the job, for the job. I cannot speak for them, but I certainly do not feel poorly paid. And from the sounds of it all three of us have been in jobs that we decided were not worthwhile, and all three of us did indeed leave.

That doesn't mean we walked in and threw temper tantrums. We got other jobs then told our old job we were leaving. And did.

Indeed rather than lacking "real world" experience, what we seem to have in common is enough skills and ability to have confidence that we could find another job...

In reply to RE (tilly) 2: Why do monks put up with it? by tilly
in thread Why do monks put up with it? by Ovid

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.