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Except that COBOL devs are not that paid that well. If they are worth their weight in gold the average COBOL developer must be pretty skinny. By all means spec

• still_grokking 4y ago
  > Except that COBOL devs are not that paid that well. I think there is no other software developer role even remotely paying as well as COBOL in Europe. You get mid level FANG salaries, which are twice or trice what you get for the usual development gig in the EU. EU is banking land. And they locking deliberately for people with COBOL and mainframe skills. > By all means specialize in a legacy language if that is what you enjoy, but you are setting yourself up for disappointment if you do it for the money. I guess this is very true. Even the money looks interesting I would not enjoy such a job, I guess. (It would be fun to find out about the mainframe but that's nothing I would like as a day job. It would be more historic interest. And COBOL, naa, there are more terrible things likely but it's not nice either).