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What are some underrated yet well paid jobs that one should consider and why ? (lemmings.world)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Looking forward to seeing some interesting jobs I haven't really thought about. Bonus points if it's an IT job.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

In the last fifteen years, I’ve worked at banks, insurance companies, and telcos on COBOL, and defence contractors and telcos with Ada.

There is always talk about replacing these huge legacy systems with something in Erlang, or Rust, or even Java (!); but some of these systems are more than fifty years old, with patches on patches, so in my opinion, replacement is going to be cumbersome and impractical.