I'd love to read more about what it's like doing mainframe consulting. Do you own or know of any blogs in this area?
At one of my clients they had one mainframe developer left that knew their systems. She had already tried to retire, but they got her to agree to stay on for 5 years in return for bags filled with money. That meant they had 5 years to rewrite on a platform they could actually hire people for. 5 years to replace a system with decades of history.