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by sai18 44 days ago
That is the current landscape today. Mainframe engineers are in high demand and good ones are paid quite well.

I've heard from a global bank, they have one mainframe developer in the team who is past 70. She manages a critical credit card service and gets paid in the upper end of 6 figures to work 20 hrs a week. She's the only one who knows that system. Lots of stories like this.

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Would she consider taking on someone interested in learning COBOL to support her and the team?
Maybe they should pay her to mentor someone lmao