Perl has never been central to nor a requirement of my jobs, but it has always helped me immensely. -As a web developer, I use it to write all sorts of small w

Perl has never been central to nor a requirement of my jobs, but it has always helped me immensely. -As a web developer, I use it to write all sorts of small webservices and file conversion utilities; -As a embedded system developer, I used it to integrate with other services in the network; -As a sysadmin and DBA, I use it a lot to parse all sorts of data. The downside is that I have to put up with the little jokes and criticisms. Then again, more than once I've been called because I was the only one who could do some job fast enough.