<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>paulirwin</author><text>Here in Jacksonville, FL the COBOL market is very much in demand. There are companies like transportation, financial, and insurance companies here that have mainframes using COBOL and hire COBOL developers. I believe I remember hearing that these companies have even funded a COBOL program at one of our local universities so they have more talent available, which means they are open to entry-level developers. I don&amp;#x27;t want to mention any of the company names on the chance that I might misrepresent them (and some of them are my customers), but you can easily find them by searching job boards like Indeed. I&amp;#x27;m sure if you mentioned to a recruiter with national&amp;#x2F;international connections that you wanted a COBOL job you could find one, although you might have to move.</text><parent_chain><item><author>guessmyname</author><text>Does anyone knows a job board for people interested to work with COBOL?&lt;p&gt;I have been interested in this language for quite some time, moved to a different country just to try to find a job where I could learn more about it and build up a career, unfortunately the city that I chose doesn&amp;#x27;t seems to be have many offers. Most of the jobs require several years of experience doing low level programming, and although I work with system programming languages (C++, Go) I don&amp;#x27;t have relevant experience working with COBOL which seems to be killing my opportunities.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s like the chicken or the egg causality dilemma, I want a COBOL job but everyone requires someone with relevant experience, but how can I get experience if no one hires me to work with COBOL? LOL — I am willing to take a junior-intermediate position if necessary, if anyone has a suggestion (company names, job boards, etc).&lt;p&gt;Thank you in advance.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I am in Vancouver, BC, Canada if anyone is interested.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Release of GnuCOBOL 2.2</title><url>http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2017-09/msg00003.html</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>the_af</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;I have been interested in this language for quite some time&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Out of curiosity: do you mean you find the job prospects interesting, or the language itself? Because I&amp;#x27;d understand if it&amp;#x27;s a money thing, but... I used to work with COBOL and I wouldn&amp;#x27;t wish the language on anyone.</text><parent_chain><item><author>guessmyname</author><text>Does anyone knows a job board for people interested to work with COBOL?&lt;p&gt;I have been interested in this language for quite some time, moved to a different country just to try to find a job where I could learn more about it and build up a career, unfortunately the city that I chose doesn&amp;#x27;t seems to be have many offers. Most of the jobs require several years of experience doing low level programming, and although I work with system programming languages (C++, Go) I don&amp;#x27;t have relevant experience working with COBOL which seems to be killing my opportunities.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s like the chicken or the egg causality dilemma, I want a COBOL job but everyone requires someone with relevant experience, but how can I get experience if no one hires me to work with COBOL? LOL — I am willing to take a junior-intermediate position if necessary, if anyone has a suggestion (company names, job boards, etc).&lt;p&gt;Thank you in advance.&lt;p&gt;EDIT: I am in Vancouver, BC, Canada if anyone is interested.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Release of GnuCOBOL 2.2</title><url>http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2017-09/msg00003.html</url></story>