RE: RE: RE: Why do monks put up with it?

[Nooks]

BlaisePascal wrote: I'm glad you have that option. Not all of us do. I'm newly out of college, newly hired at a local company in a tech-poor area of the US. While I have free reign to use Perl internally (on an NT box), I know that trying to fight to be able to use Perl in the products we ship is a battle that I won't win, due to lack of political clout.

If you never stand up for yourself, and don't even try to use some of your own clout to have things done your way, you'll never have any political clout, and you never will have things done your way.

`Just Quit' is a simplistic answer, but what it means is `that's an unrealistic imposition imposed by your employer. You'd be better served if you fought it rather than accepting it.'

(I'm also just out of college; I've been working at a nice place for the last two years or so. Right now my work is fabulous---I enjoy myself, I do things I like, if something I don't like comes along (HTML editing or TCL work, for example) I suck it up and remind myself to milk it a little when I'm vying for a cooler project next time.

The moment I'm required to write VB apps, or deal with C sharp or other deficient products, or sign over my code to my company or do any of a number of limits I set in my time here, I'll be giving my notice.

Yes, you're new, you're young, you need experience. But you're also young and thus able to work long hours and probably don't have a lot of commitments. Use this time to find out what sort of work you want to do and make sure you end up doing it. If you fail to do that now and end up doing something you hate for the next twenty years you'll more than likely regret it.