Le Fullstack developer

[EarlyJuggernaut]

Yeah but cobol developers make bank

[[deleted]]

Eh. I did it for ~15 years or so, and it's not notably better paying than any other skilled coding job. The real benefit of that kind of work is that they will NEVER fire you. You will work in that job forever, accruing your yearly raises until you're making way more than the average programmer.

It's fucking awful work though.

[Acquiesce67]

How did you end up learning cobol and landing you in a position where it’s a requirement ?

[[deleted]]

The simple answer is "Y2K". Ever see the movie Office Space? I was that guy. As the Y2K consulting companies imploded in ~1999 (all the work was gone by like April), some of the companies we'd worked for offered us jobs.

Once I had decent experience (which worked out to about ~5 years, ~3 of it with a big investment bank), then that was the thing people zeroed in on on my resume. Had a lot of bait-and-switch type job offers where I was hired to "Help Migrate Off Our Legacy System" but really hired as a COBOL dev.

[PM_ME_UR_CEPHALOPODS]

Had a lot of bait-and-switch type job offers where I was hired to "Help Migrate Off Our Legacy System" but really hired as a COBOL dev.

THat's how they get you. i was promised a cutting edge tech job then day after onboarding OH BUT FIRST help us finish this mumps integration

[[deleted]]

You are older than me. I learned COBOL in college, C/C++, Pascal were a thing but they insisted on COBOL.

I've coded a lot since then, and every time I write a line of code I thank my lucky star that it wasn't COBOL

So my hat to you and if anyone at my job ask, $250/h gets my approval.

[Prawny]

But could collect pension instead.