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  So you're saying if I spend the next year or so learning COBOL, there's a chance that in the next decade I could have a shot at a 6 figure salary fixing mainframes?
context: This should be an IT cautionary tale for all companies, invest in software modernization.
  My company has critical services built on 30+ year old infrastructure design, the people who built it are long gone and "knowledge transfer" was superficial at best. Mainframe engineers are disappearing. Yet they keep kicking the can down the road, hoping that the patchwork holds.