There are some schools in the USA that offered COBOL/Mainframe courses, read sometime ago on a news article that students found it attractive to enter some indu

There are some schools in the USA that offered COBOL/Mainframe courses, read sometime ago on a news article that students found it attractive to enter some industry sectors. Also, mainframe has one of the oldest "meetup" groups which also supports new comers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHARE_(computing) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHARE_(computing) Regarding pay my guess is that it's not great if you only program COBOL. Like other stacks you need to know about the operating system, the source control system, the pipelines, scripting (JCL), etc. COBOL it's easy to learn since it's a very simple language but the rest of the stack is hard because you don't have access to them. > 2021 Median yearly salary (USD) - $52,340 > 2022 Median yearly salary (USD) - $75,592 Source: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#technology-top-paying-technologies https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#technology-top-paying-...