I work on mainframes and just turned 30, making me me more than two decades younger than any other person on my team. We lost 1/3 of the team to forced retireme

I work on mainframes and just turned 30, making me me more than two decades younger than any other person on my team. We lost 1/3 of the team to forced retirement (EU country) last year though some return as external consultants. > Ever wonder why there are no mainframe viruses? A properly secured operating system and environment makes viruses extremely unlikely. And with much of the world’s most important and sensitive data residing on mainframes, don’t you think that hackers would just love to crack into those mainframes more frequently? Of course they would, but they can’t because of the rigorous security! This isn't always true. There are breaches [0] and a lot of the traffic seems to still be sent unencrypted (or just in exotic EBCDIC) [1]. The biggest problems we've run in to while I'm here (with new development, not maintenance) is external services from other parties being unreliable or not representative of their production environment in test environments, and management trying to implement Agile methods where we have 4 yearly releases and a single possible (but ruining our delivery target) reboot window once every two weeks in case of broken functionality that needs patching. I don't know much about modern development and systems, but I really should get on that. It just feels very difficult to get into with all kind of systems and languages. 0 https://www.pcworld.com/article/2034733/pirate-bay-cofounder-charged-with-hacking-ibm-mainframes-stealing-money.html https://www.pcworld.com/article/2034733/pirate-bay-cofounder... 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZDIblU9pBw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZDIblU9pBw