Time to retrain to something cutting edge...

[darmstadt]

I have worked with quite a few COBOL programmers who trained into java.

Thick as mince.

Bit like the Java programmers I occasionally have to deal with, numpties the lot of them...

[AtW]

Become a forensic blood splatter analyst.

[minestrone]

I have worked with quite a few COBOL programmers who trained into java.

Thick as mince.

[stek]

I started trying to into this at my last permie job, the biggest issue was not being able to sit at home and have a play.. cant just spin up a mainframe vm!

Err, yes you can, sort of!!

[NickFitz]

Wish there was still that demand for BBC Micro skills. I'd be quite happy to be paid shedloads for doing 6502 assembler

[BooBoo]

I started trying to into this at my last permie job, the biggest issue was not being able to sit at home and have a play.. cant just spin up a mainframe vm!

[darmstadt]

...like mainframes

Retiring greybeards force firms to retrain Java, .NET bods as mainframe sysadmins

Thats me, that is 30+ years and still going strong, and it pays better than your UNIX/Linux/MS malarky nowadays due to that fact

[Sysman]

I liked COBOL/CICS. I was quite good at it at one time.

I don't have it on my CV these days.

Reminder, my COBOL chap make £1000+ a day (paid by the hour some days he makes £1500) as highest paid programmer of them all.

Tap. Tappety tap.

That's the sound of COBOL slipping back onto the CV. :

[tarbera]

COBOL

I liked COBOL/CICS. I was quite good at it at one time.

I don't have it on my CV these days.

Reminder, my COBOL chap make £1000+ a day (paid by the hour some days he makes £1500) as highest paid programmer of them all.

[cojak]

I liked COBOL/CICS. I was quite good at it at one time.

I don't have it on my CV these days.

[doodab]

Modern mainframes are pretty cutting edge, and they've had features like virtualisation for years.

[d000hg]

...like mainframes

Retiring greybeards force firms to retrain Java, .NET bods as mainframe sysadmins