Looking forward to seeing some interesting jobs I haven’t really thought about. Bonus points if it’s an IT job.

  • If you learn to code in COBOL, there will always be demand for your coding skills. But you’ll want to kill yourself because the only code you’ll ever get to work on is half-century-old spaghetti that has absurdly high uptime requirements.

    •  Shoe   ( @Shoe@lemm.ee ) 
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      Currently working on a programme of work for a huge client whose core system is still running the same COBOL spaghetti that was written in the 80s. The demand for COBOL developers to support or update these systems, and the compensation they get, is wild.