Friend has a cobol + IBM AIX combo going for him and his on call + at most 1 day/week of work position pays more than my full time very senior dev role.

[–] Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Hmm I have the AIX half of that. Maybe learning COBOL is worth the pain..

[–] Kata1yst@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I know a person who does AIX consulting with Cobol. She works about 4-8 weeks a year spread between 3 companies and makes enough to raise a family and fund a massive hobby farm. Helps to be in an area with a large fintech presence I imagine.

[–] Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Very nice, yeah that's the problem. I broke into AIX in the wholesale industry in early 2000's so I have very few finance connections, which is where it all seems to be.

I have also been work from home for 7 years now and figured I'd have to go onsite for banks. That may have changed post covid. I will poke around and see what might be out there for me

[–] tty5@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Idk what the AIX job market is right now, but several years ago banks in central Europe poached employees back and forth just to reach minimum staff required.