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I work in finance. We are teaching plenty of fresh-faced graduate recruit devs COBOL.
by nikatwork 13y ago
I work in finance. We are teaching plenty of fresh-faced graduate recruit devs COBOL.
- rbanffy 13y agoFor someone into retrocomputing (who even made a 327x-ish terminal font), being paid to learn COBOL is weirdly interesting.
- nikatwork 13y agoMost of the org's original COBOL programmers are retirement age. So there's 60yo greybeards teaching COBOL to 20yos. It's a weird time to be a mainframer. If you are an experienced specialist you can charge insane hourly rates. At the same time, some bigger orgs have started transitioning off the old stack because all the experts keep dying or retiring. At some point mainframe specialist skills will go from insanely valuable to completely worthless.