> I probably wouldn't even take a job if they were using one of the other DVCSs.

Why? At my current workplace, I converted a svn repository (with 6 years of commits) to git without any hiccups! I did not even lost a single commit!

I also detached a huge binary directory (they committed everything to svn...) and made a different repo for it.

Also you got git-svn, with you can seamlessly commit to an svn repo and still work in git on your local machine, nobody will notice, except you!