Unless they are going to pay me way above my current pay to compensate for dealing with an obsoslete language and the programming practices of its era, no way.

Unless they are going to pay me way above my current pay to compensate for dealing with an obsoslete language and the programming practices of its era, no way. This is a great non-monetary example of one of the biggest issues we are seeing in our time. That is, as a civilization, we have become terrible at investing in future contingencies. In the last few months, we have witnessed how our biases prevented most of us(and businesses) from building up a meaningful savings for stormy weather, and the COBOL situation is hardly different. Banks could have invested in gradually switching from older mainframes to modern ones with software built with any modern language, and they were(or should have been) in one of the best positions to do this. Instead, they said "whatever" or simply were complacent in where technology was headed, and did little or nothing. As a society in it's current state, we need to seriously look at ourselves in the mirror.