Comment on Not mocking cobol devs but yall are severely underpaid for keeping fintech alive
tty5@lemmy.world 6 months agoFriend has a cobol + IBM AIX combo going for him and his on call + at most 1 day/week of work position pays more than my full time very senior dev role.
Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Hmm I have the AIX half of that. Maybe learning COBOL is worth the pain…
Kata1yst@kbin.social 6 months ago
I know a person who does AIX consulting with Cobol. She works about 4-8 weeks a year spread between 3 companies and makes enough to raise a family and fund a massive hobby farm. Helps to be in an area with a large fintech presence I imagine.
Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Very nice, yeah that’s the problem. I broke into AIX in the wholesale industry in early 2000’s so I have very few finance connections, which is where it all seems to be.
I have also been work from home for 7 years now and figured I’d have to go onsite for banks. That may have changed post covid. I will poke around and see what might be out there for me
tty5@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Idk what the AIX job market is right now, but several years ago banks in central Europe poached employees back and forth just to reach minimum staff required.