I would love to hang around the monestery all day helping where I can and being educated and amused by the wise monks contributions. However Like the vast majority of us I have to earn a crust.

Early in the new year my current contract ends and my mind is starting to focus on where to go next. Here in the UK a quick glance at the job sites has given me lots of jobs to apply for but very few are PERL first. Heres an example

Developer required for leading Investment Bank based in Glasgow. Successful candidate must have strong Unix, Sybase, SQL and Perl experience. The role is based within an E-Commerce team so Java is also essential.

I have all of this except Sybase, my DB experience started with Postgress(college),MySQL(early web development) and recently the Microsoft family. I'm sure I could do a job like this but with no Sybase specific experience on the cv. I probably won't even get a look in.

My point off meditation is, have other monks faced this type of problem and how did they go about getting the knowledge or persuding the employers that Database experience is useful whatever the engine

In reply to The need to work and re-train by Scarborough

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