What are the odds?

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I suppose i am one of those dinosaurs&nbsp;Even though, I decided to give it a tryI am an experienced cobol programmer (cics and batch) with 25 years of experience&nbsp;I have a knowledge of VSE and recently dived into zOSIs there still a chance for a job?And if I may be greedy, can it be remote?

1200baud · Accepted Answer

Yes though not likely at a big tech unless it's one of the cloud companies.  Cloud company would love your experience to push mainframe migraine (Google, AWS, IBM)... But otherwise there will be a lot of traditional enterprise and big bank ops still open for you when the COBOL+zSeries premium kicker...

MysteryGoblin · Answer

I'm just as "old" as you with one exception: I keep learning as much as I can every week, including bleeding edge tech. Even with this market things are kind to me.

Do the same. Learn outside of Cobol. Take a look at what tech, like ML, is still in high demand and drink from a firehouse. Just because you are experienced doesn't mean you are obsolete, but you need to work on improving yourself and adapting to the new reality. If I can do it, you can too.

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