- Name: Shawn Gordon
- COBOL Experience: (Beginner, Intermediate, Expert): Expert
- Location: (City, State, Country): Irvine, CA, USA
- Availability: (Part-time, Full-time): Part-time
- Availability Type: (Volunteer, Available to Hire): Available to Hire
- Link to LinkedIn profile (or other relevant job experience information): https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawn-gordon-37b9916/
Link to my COBOL programming tips columns http://www.thekompany.com/inside-cobol-1994-2001/
experience is mostly on HP 3000 in addition to Linux and Windows. Linkedin profile doesn’t really reflect the COBOL background due to general lack of interest in the market, but been doing it since 1983
In 2024 I scrolled the bulletin board to this point in 2020, and it looks like there is no interest from employers at all.
When I google the contract rates and average wages, they are well beyond the average for software development.
Looks like COBOL value for an employee is overestimated by the authors of the articles from the first page of Google.
Update: there is topic “Jobs” which has some, yet very rare, postings from the employers.