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Is it worth taking a job as a mainframe COBOL developer?
I'm making the switch to software development from IT and this is the only gig I've been able to land.
They are offering 50k as the salary which feels extremely low.
Thoughts?
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>>57769620
>COBOL mainframe dev
holy shit what year is it
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>>57769620
AFAIK you should be bathing in money because there is such a shortage of COBOL devs.
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If you know COBOL, why the fuck not?
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>>57769658
a+ joke, but most of the DoD runs on that.
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>>57769693
Exactly, this is a DoD job. I thought it was also used in finance?
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>>57769677
I don't though. I know some Java and Python. But like I said this is the only bite I've gotten.
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>>57769701
If you're a EU citizen, having a COBOL reference might be a good start to someday land you a 200k+ job as COBOL developer in a Swiss bank.
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>>57769746
I'm in the US :(
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>>57769785
My condolences
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>>57769620
Get the job, learn the language for a year or so and move to Europe. All the big insurance companies and banks use as400 and other similar ancient systems that require cobol to maintain.
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>>57770839
Sorry moving to Europe isn't exactly on my plans
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50k is not enough to have to subject one's self to COBOL. You can get paid 100k just to write JavaScript with some framework. They should be offering at least as much, plus benefits.
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>>57772032
Why isn't it worth it? The language sucks?
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>>57773790
COBOL devs get paid much more than 50k
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>>57769620
Damn, that bug is swole.
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