I am a mainframe programmer and have been unable to find work since I was laid off in 2001.
BullShit there is only a shortage of cheap mainframe programmers!!!!!
U would have to be an idiot to learn mainframes. Take my advice don't waste your time. They'll do to u what they did to me!!!
Just wait until they reaise the H1b quota later this year. Plenty of work for everyone in India!!! A shortage in India but not here!!!
I have taken java courses coming being an unemployed mainframe programmer. But how do u break into JAVA when u are 50+ and all u're experience is in COBOL, BAL, whatever. Everyone in Java is at most in 30's. It is basically impossible to break it. I would gladly switch to JAVA but I see no entry level jobs on the web.
I have been keeping up with the progress of software technology. Though I see some advantages to object programming (derivation polymorphism), I am not convinced that object programming will be the solution to reliable software. I think that object programming has basically restored "spaghetti code" on the system design level. Basically if u make a design mistake in an object program u are dead!!! With the top down procedural programmin u could recover.
I am an unemployed mainframe programmer. There is no reason to retrain a 20 or 30 somethings. Plenty of 40 and 50 year olds would do the work who are unemployed. This is all freakn BS. There is a shortage of underpaid mainframe programmers!! Most likely the work has been shipped to India.
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I am a mainframe programmer and have been unable to find work since I was laid off in 2001. BullShit there is only a shortage of cheap mainframe programmers!!!!! U would have to be an idiot to learn mainframes. Take my advice don't waste your time. They'll do to u what they did to me!!! Just wait until they reaise the H1b quota later this year. Plenty of work for everyone in India!!! A shortage in India but not here!!!
gee i finally did it
I have taken java courses coming being an unemployed mainframe programmer. But how do u break into JAVA when u are 50+ and all u're experience is in COBOL, BAL, whatever. Everyone in Java is at most in 30's. It is basically impossible to break it. I would gladly switch to JAVA but I see no entry level jobs on the web. I have been keeping up with the progress of software technology. Though I see some advantages to object programming (derivation polymorphism), I am not convinced that object programming will be the solution to reliable software. I think that object programming has basically restored "spaghetti code" on the system design level. Basically if u make a design mistake in an object program u are dead!!! With the top down procedural programmin u could recover.
I am an unemployed mainframe programmer. There is no reason to retrain a 20 or 30 somethings. Plenty of 40 and 50 year olds would do the work who are unemployed. This is all freakn BS. There is a shortage of underpaid mainframe programmers!! Most likely the work has been shipped to India.