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COBOL is much easier. You can easily clear $125/hr or more if you know anything at all about old school non-IBM mainframes.

Most COBOL is cut and paste. One guy I know basically reads books and updates some report, where update means enter the next month and year combination into some code, entering a change request, and go to a change meeting.

He's basically working for 3 years until his wife can retire, then building a lake house.



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