[old-ager]

Screw your friend. Maybe COBOL was a fine place to put those Indians, but on average they are not innovative, not engineers, not good communicators, and NOT AMERICAN PATRIOTS. Your friend should have figured out a way to employ Americans, because he was obviously in a position to do so. Maybe he had the wrong Americans working for him. Who wanted to do COBOL even 20 years ago?

[Mr. Douglas]

...not good communicators...

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That’s why I became a Business Analyst. It is communication intensive.

The US is just another country, now. If you want to get paid more than an indian, you have to bring skills to the table that he doesn’t possess. The US industry and workers got “rich” rebuilding the world after WWII, and has been living off the credit cars ever since. They are maxed out. The future will not be pretty, and we’re past a human solution. i.e. Trump can’t fix it.

[Mr. Douglas]

Who wanted to do COBOL even 20 years ago?

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Many companies are clamoring for people that can write COBOL, and because of what you said above.

[AppyPappy]

They still teach COBOL to every programmer in India.

My retirement plan is to dump this Java/Groovy stuff and do COBOL until they put me in the ground.