I've been reading the same theory as it applied to us Systems Programmers the last few years. Mass retirement making the remaining sysprogs highly sought after and compensated. Well, I've personally seen lots of retirements, but due to the combination of outsourcing, business acquisitions, do-more-with-less etc, I haven't seen demand locally rising sharply yet.
Dana On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 08:01:31 -0600, John McKown <[email protected]> wrote: >http://www.itworld.com/career/341879/cobol-will-outlive-us-all ><quote> >... > >The reason that I�m telling you about COBOL is that I predict that over the >next few years, new COBOL programmers are going to be in high demand and >very possibly paid a premium for their efforts. Generally speaking, the >COBOL programming skill set resides in baby boomers that have been >programming in COBOL their entire career. The issue is that these baby >boomers have begun retiring in enormous numbers. Additionally, new college >recruits have neither the skill set nor the interest in replacing them. The >problem for companies employing these COBOL programmers is that if the >software stops, so does the company. > ></quote> > >-- >This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. If this had been an >actual emergency, do you really think we'd stick around to tell you? > >Maranatha! <>< >John McKown > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
