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Thank god I just found a use for my dusty C skills, but I will have to pick up Java. More languages in the toolkit never hurt right? As noted above the gameplan

Thank god I just found a use for my dusty C skills, but I will have to pick up Java. More languages in the toolkit never hurt right? As noted above the gameplan right now is to get over to the GTA and keep working on my skills until I can afford the move. A poster in the r/mainframe thread suggested trying to get my floor in the door with a position in Ops and working up from there would be a good idea. What are your thoughts? The college looks interesting, but America. :(

wilsonnb2 8y ago
Working in ops is a good plan - in the mainframe world, the people we would normally call system administrators are called systems programmers or sysprogs. Sometimes you can find a specific position (being a sysprog for CICS and nothing else, for example) or a more general role. Either way it's pretty easy to move from sysprog to developer once you have some mainframe experience because mainframe experience is so rare these days. You'll also be working reasonably closely with the development teams, so that helps too.