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> Few things scream "name your salary" in this business like being a competent and willing COBOL programmer. Uhh.... if you can find someone looking for a COBO
by NateDad 12y ago
> Few things scream "name your salary" in this business like being a competent and willing COBOL programmer.
Uhh.... if you can find someone looking for a COBOL programmer in your area, perhaps. But the number of COBOL jobs out there is pretty tiny. Anyone with a COBOL system is looking frantically for a way to decommission it. That's not the kind of project I want to base my family's income on.
- roel_v 12y ago"But the number of COBOL jobs out there is pretty tiny." No it's not. They're not advertised on monster.com, true. It's used in niche markets (well, if you call e.g. banking a niche market) and those systems aren't going to be 'decommisioned' anytime soon. There are literally dozens of just vendors of Cobol compilers / environments / toolkits in business today. Like the GP said, I'm not claiming going into Cobol as a 21 year old is a wise career move. But Cobol consultants certainly bill a multiple of what Ruby, Go or even Java consultants bill here in Western Europe.