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If you know COBOL and know other languages and are fluent in "current" tech, then I see nothing wrong with consulting for $300 an hour doing some COBOL. Compan
by avgDev 4y ago
If you know COBOL and know other languages and are fluent in "current" tech, then I see nothing wrong with consulting for $300 an hour doing some COBOL.
Company I work for still uses AS400, which has been released in 1988 just after I was born. We have a dev who supports it. This isn't a small company either.
COSTCO is still using and a lot of huge organizations.
I'm focused on newer tech C#, .NET, Blazor but I do interact with DB2 database which is the backbone of that old system.
At one of my interviews somewhere I mentioned that a lot of apps I'm writing are just extending AS400 and the dude interviewing me was really hyped up. He has spent a lot of time with the green screen in his younger years. The job had nothing to do with AS400, but that conversation got me an easy offer.
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- bluGill 4y agoMost consultants cannot get $300/hour for COBOL though. It is those who have specific other knowledge - like experience in the system before they retired who can get that much.