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>One of the barriers is that these companies are not willing to pay the same money we (I think we are from the same generation - I was paid to write Apple II so
by albroland 6y ago
>One of the barriers is that these companies are not willing to pay the same money we (I think we are from the same generation - I was paid to write Apple II software) can get from working with anything that's not COBOL.
As a younger person (graduated 2012) who entered the mainframe space for my first job then left after 2y, I can very much vouch that compensation for software devs working on zOS systems writing COBOL or HLASM is peanuts. You'd be looking at 1.5-2x'ing your income even if you took a job at a series A startup writing CRUD apps in Rails/etc.