COBOL!
my coworker sent me this article:
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/10/23/1746254
“Developers seeking job security in the years ahead could find an unlikely edge in Cobol. According to an InfoWorld report, demand for Cobol skills is surging, with salaries on the rise. More importantly, the short supply of offshore Cobol programmers and the fact that mainframes aren’t going away anytime soon are spurring longevity for big-iron skills, with many companies looking to hire in-house Cobol pros to bridge mainframe Cobol apps to the rest of the enterprise. The report provides further evidence that Cobol may indeed be primed for a comeback, with new kinds of Cobol integration jobs emerging to prove old-guard skills are critical to some of the hottest areas of software development today.”
dude! my time at CGI was not a complete waste! i wonder if the SilkTest job market is better or worse than the COBOL job market. maybe it’s time to switch back to the other useless skill i’ve acquired in my 4 years of working…
