04-02-2009
I don't trust the salary numbers in that review posted a few messages up. The starting is way too low, the 5 and 10 year may be too high. Depends on where you are working to a great extent, but they aren't accurate for my area (Minneapolis, MN). Finding jobs is fairly easy. Recruiters do call you fairly often once you're established and well-known. I've been laid off 3 times and switched jobs on my own 3 times in 10 years, and never been unemployed more than 8 days. But don't expect a 20% raise every time or to be making six figures by year 5. And totally ignore the guy talking about being an IPO millionaire. That guy is a comedian or an idiot . . . I'm guessing this is fairly old and they are referring to the late 90's tech bubble when things were out of control. Or maybe those comments came from people in silicon valley where you can make $150,000 and still be poor because the cost of living is so high.
Most places I've worked are pretty flexible about hours. They know Unix admins work nights and weekends pretty frequently so usually they aren't very strict about being there 9 to 5 every day. You will definitely be putting in your hours, just not the same hours as everybody else.
Vacations have never been a problem except for one job where I was the only Unix admin. Even there I could take days off but I had to prepare by making sure all necessary work during those days was done ahead of time and I had a backup to cover while I was gone (usually a DBA or programmer). I do not take my pager or laptop on vacation, but in an emergency it is possible they'd call me and that would be ok with me if it truly was important.
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time::seconds
Time::Seconds(3perl) Perl Programmers Reference Guide Time::Seconds(3perl)
NAME
Time::Seconds - a simple API to convert seconds to other date values
SYNOPSIS
use Time::Piece;
use Time::Seconds;
my $t = localtime;
$t += ONE_DAY;
my $t2 = localtime;
my $s = $t - $t2;
print "Difference is: ", $s->days, "
";
DESCRIPTION
This module is part of the Time::Piece distribution. It allows the user to find out the number of minutes, hours, days, weeks or years in a
given number of seconds. It is returned by Time::Piece when you delta two Time::Piece objects.
Time::Seconds also exports the following constants:
ONE_DAY
ONE_WEEK
ONE_HOUR
ONE_MINUTE
ONE_MONTH
ONE_YEAR
ONE_FINANCIAL_MONTH
LEAP_YEAR
NON_LEAP_YEAR
Since perl does not (yet?) support constant objects, these constants are in seconds only, so you cannot, for example, do this: "print
ONE_WEEK->minutes;"
METHODS
The following methods are available:
my $val = Time::Seconds->new(SECONDS)
$val->seconds;
$val->minutes;
$val->hours;
$val->days;
$val->weeks;
$val->months;
$val->financial_months; # 30 days
$val->years;
$val->pretty; # gives English representation of the delta
The usual arithmetic (+,-,+=,-=) is also available on the objects.
The methods make the assumption that there are 24 hours in a day, 7 days in a week, 365.24225 days in a year and 12 months in a year.
(from The Calendar FAQ at http://www.tondering.dk/claus/calendar.html)
AUTHOR
Matt Sergeant, matt@sergeant.org
Tobias Brox, tobiasb@tobiasb.funcom.com
BalieXXzs SzabieXX (dLux), dlux@kapu.hu
LICENSE
Please see Time::Piece for the license.
Bugs
Currently the methods aren't as efficient as they could be, for reasons of clarity. This is probably a bad idea.
perl v5.14.2 2011-09-19 Time::Seconds(3perl)