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This is like asking where the next Mainframe COBOL programmers will come from, and the colleges don't teach it anymore. Only people my age, age 56, are left kno
by orionblastar 1y ago
This is like asking where the next Mainframe COBOL programmers will come from, and the colleges don't teach it anymore. Only people my age, age 56, are left knowing DOS/VSE and COBOL from an IBM Mainframe. We aren't getting hired because we are too old or suffer from too many illnesses. No one wants to learn COBOL because it is outdated, but the Social Security check writing software is still in COBOL, and porting it to a modern language would be too hard and too expensive.
I know about 37 different programming languages, most of which are obsolete. So how can I learn if nobody wants to hire me?
- GianFabien 1y agoYou could checkout: https://cobolcowboys.com/ https://cobolcowboys.com/ they might have some opportunities you might be interested in. As for learning, I have always learnt new languages, environments in my own time and then having got some knowledge then together with domain knowledge found suitable contracts. When contracting your portfolio and network are critical resources.
- orionblastar 1y agoThe thing is, I'm so old that my former managers have died or retired. I don't have much of a network left. I'll check out COBOL Cowboys, thank you.