>> I bet you won't find much new development being done in COBOL. What
>> work there is is maintenance of legacy systems. And I bet there hasn't
>> been much of that since 1/1/2000.
Yeah, although I also bet you that those companies that still have occasional need for COBOL developers are paying a lot of money these days, because when they need a COBOL developer, they really NEED a COBOL developer. And there can't be a huge supply.
Maybe I need to dig up my COBOL skills :-)
Markus