Most 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 y

Most 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.