I programmed in IBM S370 Assembler language for 12 years... couldn’t find work after Y2K.
Started my own business.
Would like to get back into programming if this is true.
I made pretty good money doing Y2K work for the government, rewriting their COBOL programs. After that I had to switch over to doing IV&V work. Meh.
A COBOL programmer made so much money doing Y2K remediation that he was able to have himself cryogenically frozen when he died. One day in the future, he was unexpectedly resurrected.When he asked why he was unfrozen, he was told: "It's the year 9999 - and you know COBOL"
Well, this is anecdotal, but I've been working a bunch with a salesweasel on some infrastructure projects. He was complaining the other day about a couple of projects with big (Fortune 500) companies - they're doing some sort of remediation and mainframe consolidation, and he was having a tough time finding qualified bodies for the job.
So.....some random guy in an internet chatroom is telling you that another guy he talked to recently, has some unspecified mainframe projects with certain companies. IF that's not an excellent basis for a career switch, I dunno what is. lol!
But between that, and this article, it sounds like there's some movement in the market. I wonder what's putting the pieces in motion?