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I'm looking forward to having the same experience as COBOL engineers did after retirement: companies backing up the brinks truck to anyone with the skills to ke
by chojeen 1mo ago
I'm looking forward to having the same experience as COBOL engineers did after retirement: companies backing up the brinks truck to anyone with the skills to keep the lights on.
- bigmattystyles 1mo agoIt's like I said in another article, I've spent my life in C# and JavaScript. I'm a low-level programmer now, did even have to learn C or assembly.
- xdavidliu 1mo ago> backing up the brinks truck now that's a phrase I have only heard in one other context: as an alleged quote from former Boston Celtics player Isaiah Thomas (who was really about 5'7 despite his official listed 5'9; yes, professional basketball player in NBA). This was around 2017 when he had just come off a career year and was soon due for a contract extension in the low 9 figures. He got injured and bounced around for a few years before eventually leaving the league, and never got that payday.
- snapetom 1mo agoIt’s commonly used in college sports where one school’s fan base argue for poaching a coach at another school. “Back up the Brinks truck” == throw money at him.
- spogbiper 1mo agothat would be nice, but unfortunately I think the supply vs demand situation is quite different this time
- shimman 1mo agoYeah, every COBOL job paid pretty terrible relative to other types of work (like web dev). Sure there might be a dozen individuals making over $300k but most COBOL devs live in the deep south making less than $100k for their entire careers. Fine salary, but that line of work is severely limited and the salaries do not reflect how valuable that work is.
- superdisk 1mo agoIf you actually look at Cobol job listings, they pay like 50k and want a master's degree. The myth of them being paid really well is not true at all.