Dana, All I can tell you is run across supposedly Sysprogs or now admins who know next to nothing.. A lot of te kids don't want to learn the black arts ...
Scott ford www.identityforge.com Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. - Chinese Proverb On Feb 13, 2013, at 11:44 AM, Dana Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
