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Re:The code that controls our money by rad_gruchalski on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @07:44PM (#28464432)
Always wanted to learn COBOL but never had an opportunity to do anything with it.

If there was an incentive, I’d do it.

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Re:The code that controls our money by nerdponx on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @08:02PM (#28464560)
Job security, apparently.

But I agree. If some big corporation is running a Cobol training program with a big paycheck at the other end, I'll sign up. But I'm not going to spend my free time training myself, I'd rather do fun stuff.

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Re:The code that controls our money by SilverRed on Thursday September 09, 2021 @01:41AM (#28466655)
Is job security a thing that any programmer is worrying about? I'm a ruby developer and I recently sent my resume to a recruiter and had a new job 1 week later and my impression was that there were 10 other listings from this recruiter who would have hired me had I finished their interviews.

I don't have any particularly rare or specialized skills. Only 6 years ruby experience.

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