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What do you base this on? There are also tens of thousands of layed cobol programmers who are unemployed or working in other fields (in the US), the legacy of o
by marktangotango 11y ago
What do you base this on? There are also tens of thousands of layed cobol programmers who are unemployed or working in other fields (in the US), the legacy of offshoring and cost reduction of the past 15 years.
I am one. I started mainframe cobol in 2003, grew the skills you listed for 5 years. It's a miserable existence for anyone really interested in developement. The company I worked for had just started their off shoring program when I switched to JEE (I took a pay cut, but am way ahead now). That same company subsequently laid off most of their onshore developers.
This is mainframe applications programming today, there maybe jobs, but not in the US.
- nickpsecurity 11y agoThere's job adds all over the country plus people retiring. Personally, I think it varies area by area. Places with a lot of big companies with legacy systems need employees. Others... not so much. The offshoring issue is real. It's why most of America's brightest in CompSci and Math are going to financial sector instead of IT. Any time I meet someone trying to get into IT I recommend against it. Only exception, which is risky, is embedded where the need to physically be there reduces offshoring risk. ASIC's, too, so long as you get out of RTL work as quickly as possible: it's all going to Asia.