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Oddly enough I suspect you’d have a much harder time getting hired for a burger flipping gig at the moment. What a strange time.

Maybe, maybe not.

If we make these (very questionable) assumptions:

- Most qualified mainframe COBOL programmers are in an age bracket for which COVID-19 is very dangerous,

- and most COBOL shops are reluctant to allow all-remote teams,

then it might be harder to fill those jobs than it is to hire risk-tolerant / risk-ignorant young adults to flip burgers.

For what it's worth, my dad was doing remote COBOL in the early 1980s, so the technology is available.

And I wonder how the pay compares.

I wouldn't want to spend more time doing it, but I do think today's newbies have missed something in not seeing them and playing with them for a bit.

Thanks for the laugh.