1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

Did you look at the parts runner yet?

 

Let me give you a little inside information. If you have a car loan with any of the big U.S. and Japanese players most likely those loans are being processes on systems written in CICS, COBOL, and Assembler. The same goes for checking accounts, IRA, and certificate of deposits with megabanks like the B of A and the likes. But the core products really haven't changed much since the late 1980s. Now there are front-end systems that are written in MS .Net and the latest GUI technology. But the real work goes on mega IBM ZOS systems.

The big boys are still running CICS, COBOL, and Assembler. I'm talking about a ~6 BILLION dollar a year software business.

https://www.fisglobal.com/

COBOL Engineers

https://careers.fisglobal.com/us/en/job/JR0130013/Software-Engineer-Cobol

 

Then I should be golden since the majority of my experience is skilled labor

 

Yea looking through your hundy pictures when he added the harrop had me drooling.

I don't want to waste his time yet, realistic it'll be next summer when I can get my diffs rebuilt

 

Not yet, I'm on day 11 of my work week. been doing 10 hour days. I may get a chance mid week.

 

Backbone of the world

 

I come from a family of intellectuals on my dad side, he was a professor and both his parents were as well. Everyone in the family suspected me to follow the same route given how well I did in school as a kid.

I'm glad I took after my mom with her families blue collar lineage. Being able to work with my hands has never left me short of work ... it's just broken down my body after all these years of manual labor

 

Thats actually really comforting. We'd be all doomed if it were written in C and running on AWS

Looks like there is some support for writing and compiling COBOL on linux. Hmmmm.

 

Now you're just toying with his emotions

 

First generation of immigrant parents so all I know is hard work struggles.

 

If I were doing it all over again, i'd seriously going into a trade. Desk work is indoors, usually, but the stress and lack of movement gets to you after a while.

I really want like a part time job doing what I do now, and a part time job doing wiring. That seems like a nice balance.

 

I want to retire working in a brewery

 

Smartest in my college class went off an got a PhD in chem E - then started his own brewery. I think he had it planned all along.

 

There was/is a very good COBOL compiler and run platform for the PC named Realia. When I worked for Time Warner, I used it to maintain and develop a COBOL system that was running on both a PC (in Amsterdam) and the Warner Brothers mainframe in Burbank CA. The compiler was actually very good. I found several bugs on the PC platform that were latent "once in a blue moon" issues on the mainframe. So so it produced better quality CICS code than could be done with the IBM compiler.

It may be free to download for a hobbyist.

https://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=534217

 

At least you seem to be doing well for yourself given that kind of struggle

My grandfather's parents and family emigrated from Scotland to get Canadian citizenship for fighting in WWI.. his father was a plumber and his mother and aunt ran a grocery store, he was a kid through the great depression in WA and watching them struggle made him pursue a career in academia. Ending up doing well for himself. My dad attempted to follow in his footsteps and struggled most of his adult life finding work after my parents business failed. Me watching him made me avoid going into academia

 

I need to go get some GCP certifications.

https://acloudguru.com/gcp-cloud-tr...VMWydnxlL9pScwh8KK-O5lgksuKkKVMMaAv8wEALw_wcB

 

Start your own

 

A 14 year old post on COBOL sounds like the perfect friday night rabbit hole. Thanks!

 

That sounds like a good balance and work that is much easier than heavy equipment repair... there are days I miss doing that and days I'm so thankfully I don't have to lift camshafts that are as tall as I am