Hi all.

I'm currently working as a PHP Developer, and I want to learn something new, because I've been developing in PHP for 7 years.

My current tech leader is a super senior developer with around 25 years of experience developing software, and he said his main programming language is Perl, and he worked with it so many years and so many projects, also he said he could teach me Perl in an advanced way if I wanted to.

So i have this opportunity to learn Perl from a professional with a lot of experience.

The only thing stops me, is that I know that Perl jobs are not that common, at least not as PHP jobs.

But something that motivates me is learning a new technology and apply it.

I know there are a lot of JS and Python jobs, but I don't really like those languages, I would prefer Java or C#.

This is my situation, should I invest this time into learning Perl if I want to expand my market opportunities?

Greetings!

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