[phaylon]

    but watching and waiting for Perl6 and getting the OO 
    model cleaned up

Have a look at http://search.cpan.org/dist/Moose and http://moose.perl.org as well as the MooseX::* namespace on CPAN. It's Perl 5 OO with a Meta Object Protocol, lots of extensions, and compatibility with pure Perl 5 OO.

    Do you think it will look good on your resume, improve 
    your skill set, or help you think in new and better 
    ways?

For me it does. I'm a full-time Perl 5 developer and I have to learn and read up on newer technologies all the time. Even if the CPAN already provides me with what I mostly need, I'll still have to integrate it into the customers infrastructure. And for that I have to understand it.

    For all practical purposes the language is dead

CPAN disagrees.