On Fri, 8 Sept 2023 at 14:40, Steve Thompson <ste...@wkyr.net> wrote: > > From the recruiters I get contacting me, the end client, who > ever that may be, wants someone to reverse engineer the ALC code > they have into COBOL (uh how about the euphemism, modernize?). [...] > Then they want to pay ~$50/hr w2 for that expertise.
I assume w2 is something related to US income tax or employee vs contractor status...? But given that none of us old-timers is likely to do that work for less than twice that wage (and maybe quite a bit more), who are these recruiters actually getting to do it? Or is it just not getting done? Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
