[Flatus I. Maximus]

I made very good money doing COBOL Y2K code remediation in 1999. Haven’t touched a line of COBOL since.

Nonetheless, just last week I got a call out of the blue from a headhunter who was trying very hard to talk me into coming out of retirement to take a COBOL programming job. It seems that government agencies and financial institutions all over the country are just now realizing they’re dependent on millions of lines of decades-old COBOL code, and there’s a real shortage of people who can write or maintain it.

I’ll admit, for a few minutes, I was tempted.

[Jonty30]

For me, it will all depend on whether I’m king of my own domain, or if I had to have regular contact with city or department managers. There is no money that could be paid to me to have conversations with little tyrants.

[Dubh_Ghlase]

I am retiring next week, and am already getting pings about what I'd be willing to do if interested (I am versed in 25 year-old networking protocols that are going EOL, but still supported and widely installed around the globe in financial institutions).

At this time, no one has mentioned a starting sum, but not sure if I'd be interested in any case...

[Tanniker Smith]

If there’s still some around when I retire from teaching, I’ll look into it.