"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 cal

"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.