[bigfoot675]

> If you need someone online to justify for you learning new things in your field you have probably already lost.

You can't learn everything though. You absolutely should contemplate whether something is worth learning before embarking on that process -- otherwise you fill your head with useless new things.

Nobody is saying that I need to learn COBOL to stay relevant in the job market today, even if that would be a new language for me.

[ChiranSoogoor]

I started programming in COBOL since 1988 and I am still. I have seen several other languages come and go in these 3+ decades but COBOL is only growing younger. I am no more excited to learn a new language or tool invented every six months at my current age near retirement, hope COBOL will continue to feed me for few more years if not decades!