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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
You have to wonder at the intelligence of people. . .
I'm an old dinosaur - mainframe COBOL. I'm between contracts, with 1 to 2 years to go before retirement.
A contract I worked for 2 years ago, at $50 an hour. The team who does the guts coding and rewriting of the US Medicare system. (The contract that made H.Ross Perot a billionaire, in the 1960s.) It is a cost plus contract. It has been since the 1960s.
Legal requirements to work for the job - US Citizen or Green Card. All mainframe. Have to pass the equivalent of a security screening to work on it. Data cannot leave the country, under any circumstances. Subject to HIPPA law. (You leak data, you got to the pokey - it's a felony.)
Given all of that. I just saw a contract company trying to get candidates for Programming training class for that environment.
Requirements - Bachelors Degree in a technical subject. GPA 3.0 or greater.
PAY - $16 to $18/Hr.
Somebody is missing something between their ears - and it isn't me. . . . .
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Hmm, $50 an hour for an experienced COBOL programmer doesn't sound like a lot.