I can’t say I’ve worked in the COBOL space but it certainly seems like it would be difficult to hire people focused on less transferable tech knowledge. Special

I can’t say I’ve worked in the COBOL space but it certainly seems like it would be difficult to hire people focused on less transferable tech knowledge. Specialization comes with risk of being phased out and left with your thumb in the wind. Generally people choose technology that’s going to maximize their prospects in terms of employment. Maybe that is specializing in COBOL, systems and tech around it, and higher level abstractions that inevitably come along. For me that seems risky in terms of time investment, even more so in todays market, but I could be very wrong.