in addition... more and more companies are expecting their employees to wear many hats... to cut costs and increase profits... so if you can do design work... programming... advertising... and are a little rusty on your oracle... most companies are much much more willing to bring you aboard and allow you to make mistakes...

it is good to start out with a small company too... larger companies have very high expectations and slim margins for error... a smaller company will allow you to make more mistakes... which is very important when learning oracle... and you can be fairly sure you won't bring someones life to a halt when you crash a database... :)