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One of my earliest jobs was working with COBOL (I am one of the few programmers coming up in the early 2000's that had COBOL in not one, but TWO core classes re
by icelancer 10y ago
One of my earliest jobs was working with COBOL (I am one of the few programmers coming up in the early 2000's that had COBOL in not one, but TWO core classes required at my college). The pay was rather good for my Midwestern location, 80k+ starting base pay was well over double the average pay for college graduates.
I thought it was actually fairly interesting work. COBOL is a very neat language. Like anything though at age 22, it's not likely you'll stick around for any job, much less one where you're generally just doing maintenance and source control / corner case bug bashing. I moved on but I'll always remember the job.
- kurttheviking 10y agoWhere did you attend college? I also took two COBOL courses at Miami University (Oxford) taught by a professor who preferred to be called "El Supremo". Then, in my senior year TA'd them again...thus sitting through a stunning 4 semester's worth of COBOL during the early aughts.
- icelancer 10y agoDidn't go there, but same state. Northern location, private school. Given Ohio, should narrow it down to about 750 different locations. :)
- pc86 10y ago$80k in the early 2000s, in the Midwest, as a new grad, seems astoundingly high. That's $102-112k in today's dollars (2004/2000->2016).
- icelancer 10y agoIt was high for sure. But others received similar offers. I graduated in 2004, so you have to adjust for that time period where tech was exploding and the economy was recovering post 9/11. Jobs were everywhere.