> Cobol programming is a skill that is trivially taught. And this used to be very common. My first job out of school in the early 1990s was with a "big consult

> Cobol programming is a skill that is trivially taught. And this used to be very common. My first job out of school in the early 1990s was with a "big consulting firm" they had a boot camp where they taught COBOL to batches of new hires. You did that for a month, and then were deployed to a client site writing COBOL about 50 hours a week.