note princepawn I started Perl as a programming profession in November of 1999. Since then, I am now at my 6th company. That is an average of a new job every 3 months. The reasons for leaving each company are, in chronological order: <li>layoff after 30 days <li>dropped due to change in s/w development focus <li>terminated due to differences. I was a contractor expecting hourly pay and they were a dot-com expecting me to work 12 hours per day for constant rate <li>terminated due to lack of project profitability <li>left prematurely because the company was a hopeless mismanaged wreck <li>still here now, but Northern California is kind of cold for me. Gotta hit Florida next. </ol> 80436 80436