I FINALLY started learning awk in the past couple weeks. I think I was intimidated because awk can be very terse, and there are some default actions that aren't clear when you first start looking at awk scripts.

My other problem is that I want to accomplish things, not learn a tool, and it generally takes me a bit longer than it should to decide to actually learn something and not just hack at it.

Is it still worth it to be "the awk guy" at work?