At a guess, people from other parts of the world than the USA. They still actively teach and use “old languages” in some places out there, so there is a larger quantity of talent (though I could not say at what experience level).
TAANSTAAFL. You get what you pay for. Peter From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Tony Harminc Sent: Friday, September 8, 2023 4:45 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Ray Mullins on Assembler demand. On Fri, 8 Sept 2023 at 14: 40, Steve Thompson <stevet@ wkyr. net> wrote: > > From the recruiters I get contacting me, the end client, who > ever that may be, wants someone to reverse engineer the ALC code > they have into COBOL On Fri, 8 Sept 2023 at 14:40, Steve Thompson <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > From the recruiters I get contacting me, the end client, who > ever that may be, wants someone to reverse engineer the ALC code > they have into COBOL (uh how about the euphemism, modernize?). [...] > Then they want to pay ~$50/hr w2 for that expertise. I assume w2 is something related to US income tax or employee vs contractor status...? But given that none of us old-timers is likely to do that work for less than twice that wage (and maybe quite a bit more), who are these recruiters actually getting to do it? Or is it just not getting done? Tony H. -- This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
