I used to work in a medium sized college town in the midwest that basically had 4 places for software developers to work. The university, the "fun" software com

I used to work in a medium sized college town in the midwest that basically had 4 places for software developers to work. The university, the "fun" software company (where I worked), and a couple insurance companies. We hired a lot of people from the insurance companies and they all basically said that they would hire anyone with a science type degree that was willing to learn COBOL.