That's much like the story of my professional life as well, save that I mostly deal in smallish projects which tend to be requested in PHP, so I say "I can do that faster, better, and cheaper in Perl" and they generally say "OK", so I rarely have to actually write/modify PHP code more often than once every couple months and can stick with Perl aside from that.

As for what I do with Perl...

• Web apps
• Logfile analysis
• Dynamic firewall rules based on what's found in those logfiles
• User accounting and workstation management for an internet cafe
• Web scraping
• Spam header analysis
• Scanning for "hidden messages" via equidistant letter spacing
• Automating system administration
• Fun
• Profit
• Impressing the hell out of the ladies clients

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