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Re:The mainframe is alive and thriving by albroland on Thursday March 11, 2021 @12:46PM (#26426801)
>One of the barriers is that these companies are not willing to pay the same money we (I think we are from the same generation - I was paid to write Apple II software) can get from working with anything that's not COBOL.

As a younger person (graduated 2012) who entered the mainframe space for my first job then left after 2y, I can very much vouch that compensation for software devs working on zOS systems writing COBOL or HLASM is peanuts. You'd be looking at 1.5-2x'ing your income even if you took a job at a series A startup writing CRUD apps in Rails/etc.

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Re:The mainframe is alive and thriving by azinman2 on Thursday March 11, 2021 @05:27PM (#26429788)
Perhaps you just need to wait 10 year for everyone to retire and then the market supply will jack up these rates!
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Re:The mainframe is alive and thriving by gnu8 on Thursday March 11, 2021 @08:25PM (#26431242)
There's a good argument for unionizing here. There are few enough COBOL devs that they could demand what they are worth and support it with industrial action.
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Re:The mainframe is alive and thriving by haimez on Thursday March 11, 2021 @10:47PM (#26432012)
This will be the fastest method of getting bank software rewritten in rails.
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Re:The mainframe is alive and thriving by gnu8 on Friday March 12, 2021 @07:46PM (#26442799)
That sounds like the fastest method of getting fiat money replaced with cryptocurrency.
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