<html><body>Im always up for a new job..<br>I currently work as a full time *nix admin / dev (PHP/Perl/C) I havent got any uni quals but I do got 3 years of commercial?<br>Should I apply?<br><br><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: Paul <hooker@iinet.net.au><br>To: plug@plug.org.au<br>Sent: Wed, 21 May 2008 20:24:56 +0800 (WST)<br>Subject: Re: [plug] Re: Looking for a Web Monkey (Still)<br><br>On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 18:23 +0800, Tomasz Grzegurzko wrote:<br>> >> We're looking for someone with a decent grasp of supporting,<br>> >> enhancing, creating, and fixing web apps in an Apache environment.<br>> >> Perl/PHP is useful, although we're happy to take someone who's good at<br>> >> picking up different languages, and doesn't mind us saying "No, don't<br>> >> do it in Java or .NET".<br>> >><br>> ><br>> > Good luck... few IT "professionals" in Perth want to work on open sauce<br>> > tools. They don't believe it's good for their "career"... as they believe no<br>> > one else will hire them should they wish to move on. Unfortunately it seems<br>> > this is true.<br>><br>> I work exclusively in Open Source stuff and all I can say is that it's<br>> been a real challenge and done wonders for my career.<br>> But that's my experience.<br><br>And iiNet have problems recruiting Perl programmers. The Universities<br>don't much care for the language (from an OOP purists point of view I<br>can see why) which rubs off, so we're happy to employ people willing to<br>learn it, and it's still difficult.<br><br>Hook<br>_______________________________________________<br>PLUG discussion list: plug@plug.org.au<br>http://www.plug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/plug<br>Committee e-mail: committee@plug.linux.org.au<br><br></hooker@iinet.net.au></body></html>