Dear Monk,

I live in pacific, over here people with knowldge of Perl have starvation problem. I would like to know how our brother in other place of the world live. Do they have dificulty parcticing their knowldge, and what do they do?

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Re: Need food Monk
by Fletch (Bishop) on Jan 09, 2005 at 19:44 UTC
    I live in pacific,

    OK, I think the offshoring trend may have gone too far . . .

    (Hey, it was that or an even lamer "print Namor the sub-Mariner" joke.)

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      for food I'd learn another language,You can always squeeze perl in, just learn how to do system calls or web service calls in whatever language and call it.

      The more lanuages you know the more ways to do it you know.
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        Web page design :). All of the basic languages, HTML and CSS, can be learned easily within a week. That way you could easily hook that in with perl through CGI. Is that what you were trying to say :)? I help run a web site, and I use it as an excuse to thrown in the things I enjoy doing :).
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Re: Need food Monk
by zentara (Cardinal) on Jan 09, 2005 at 14:01 UTC
    Welcome to the "starving artists society". Many in the "great wealthy west" are in the same boat as you. My advice? Don't think of Perl as a vehicle to "get rich", it is an "artistic pursuit".
    I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh
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Re: Need food Monk
by Mutant (Priest) on Jan 10, 2005 at 10:54 UTC

    The pacific's a pretty big place, can you be more specific?

    I used to earn pretty reasonable money programming Perl in New Zealand (live in London now). There's certainly work around, but it's not as available or as well paid as someone who programs in Java.

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      Why is Java are well paid? What do Java programmer do as compared to Perl Programmer?
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        Nothing, but Java is the industry standard. When a manager thinks about doing a project, her first thought will be "Let's do it in Java"... it's another one of those things that no one ever got fired for choosing.
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