My 6 month adventure with (shudder) unemployment

Posted on November 6, 2009 - Filed Under Contracting | 1 Comment

Remember those days when people kept saying “Cobol is dead?” We just laughed, and kept on coding. Well, laugh no more. Cobol is not dead–there are still thousands of programmers out there. It’s just finding a new mainframe position after losing a job that’s dead. I’ve been a contractor for over 30 years, and I’ve [...]

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