Back during my year of unemployment after the first dot-com bubble burst, I met a woman who had been unemployed for two or three years, and she had COBOL experience. We got jobs within about a month of each other (she recommended me for a company that hired me, then I recommended her for a managerial opening at the same place), at a Java shop. So at least one of the following must be true:
* employers weren't all that desperate for COBOL programmers
* hiring managers in the COBOL world tended to be male chauvinist pigs
* this woman preferred unemployment to working in a COBOL shop
* employers weren't all that desperate for COBOL programmers
* hiring managers in the COBOL world tended to be male chauvinist pigs
* this woman preferred unemployment to working in a COBOL shop