[tapland]

It's COBOL, but my first software development job. It's a good pay for a novice-dev in Sweden ($44k/yr and our currency has dropped by 1/3 compared to the USD).

I like the language and environments, and it's fine that almost all developers are close to retirement, they are great libraries of knowledge after having worked in the system for 20+ years.

It's mostly the legacy ways of working around here that are an annoyance, communication by email and having to wait for order- and project numbers before starting any development, instead of being allowed to develop improvements that can just be implemented when/if they get the ok.

The wait time does allow me to create some automated tests of which we had absolutely none, that other young developers here also benefit from.

I'm gaining knowledge and the system seems to be getting replaced in not that long, at which point my fiancée wants to move back home to the states, but health insurance woes has kept me from looking into that.