There is more COBOL out there than you realize. I am currently heading a
project to convert a customer's mainframe database/code to an NT. We are
taking the COBOL running it through a converter to make the mainframe COBOL
work on MicroFocus COBOL. It was less expensive to re-use the COBOL than to
convert to some other "better" language.
Granted COBOL has a limited life-time, but people have been saying that ever
since I started college (2 decades ago)!

Jared, good luck in your job search, I have no useful contacts for you, but
the recommendation to check out the local colleges is a good idea.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gene Dascher" <gedascher@multiservice.com>
To: "Kclug" <kclug@kclug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 2:43 PM
Subject: RE: Jobs? This is the last I'll say about it.

> Well, at first I thought I'd send my original reply to Jared, but decided
> to post it to the list instead.  I'm sure glad that I did.  I haven't had
> that much fun reading an e-mail in a long time.  Aside from the
unnecessary
> expletives, Eric had a few good points.  I'm extremely happy that he had
> such a great experience at DeVry.  But that doesn't mean that everyone
else
> that has ever gone there feels the same way that he does.  It was just not
> my aspiration to be a COBOL maintenance programmer.
>
> I think that it would be a terrible tragedy if I didn't say something to
> you, Jared, and you found out too late that the goods that you was so
> vehemently promised by the recruiters were not delivered.  If you still
> decide to go to DeVry, WONDERFUL.  I wanted to make sure that you had more
> opinions than the ones of the recruiters or the DeVry students who came in
> to your High School to talk to you about it (I don't know if they are
> allowed to do that or not).
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Duston, Hal [mailto:hdusto01@sprintspectrum.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 2:03 PM
> To: kclug@kclug.org
> Subject: RE: Jobs?
>
>
> Ouch, I never got Eric's email, the mailserver must have nuked
> it.  Says I with only a high school degree.  ;-)
>
> Looks like we are going to have order some more Halon.
>
> Hal Duston
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tony Hammitt [mailto:tony@speedscript.com]
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Eric Rossiter <rossiter@discoverynet.com>
> > > To: <kclug@kclug.org>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 1:20 PM
> > > Subject: Re: Jobs?
> > >
> > > *snip*
> > >
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