IT career changes: here's why I just quit my job.

2024 ж. 20 Мам.
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In today's episode, I talk about why I just quit my job as a system administrator and COBOL developer.
It's OK to be ready for change.
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Chapters:
0:00 I quit
0:43 Career background
1:35 Realizations
3:53 Is COBOL OK?
4:46 What's next for the channel?
#career #technology #linux

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  • Hi folks! I am overwhelmed by your positive comments. I wish I could keep up on it all! I might do a "thank you" stream sometime soon. Seriously, you all mean the world to me and I'm so thankful for your support.

    @VeronicaExplains@VeronicaExplains6 ай бұрын
    • Also, those of you who think COBOL has been dead for decades- go ask your bank or government if they have COBOL jobs. :P

      @VeronicaExplains@VeronicaExplains6 ай бұрын
    • Congratulations, Veronica, for knowing what you want to do and for doing it! I look forward to seeing more of you on this excellent channel. My first job was coding in COBOL (in 1988). Since I'm close to retirement, I'm lucky that that I'm able to spend my remaining programming years looking after a legacy (trading) system. My organization's IT leaves me and my team alone provided that we meet security requirements. The stinky IT puppets don't get to waste my time with pointless meetings.

      @laughingalien@laughingalien6 ай бұрын
    • Curious... Did you report my previous comment about podcasting as spam or was that an automatic google thing or just some person in these comments? If I offended you somehow, it would be good to understand so I don't repeat. Thanks

      @l0gic23@l0gic236 ай бұрын
    • Explaining tech/consulting is DEFINITELY going to be a good place to be, when it comes to job security, long term/as long as possible, with the rise of automation/AI/machines/robots, I honestly think, at some point, this is our future; An Automated-Post-Scarcity-Society; The Society im trying to define is one where AI/Robots/automation is involved,without any money involved,but ecological/certain materials/elements,would be hard to come by/limited, but everyones basic needs would be handled/met and MAYBE SLIGHTLY more than basic needs,if certain things are available and everyones basic needs are met for that month,certain other items might also be available,but everything would be done autonomously/automatically/without human intervention, mostly,other than,government,voting systems/congress,Mayors,governor's,presidents,regulating/regulation,consulting, ethical decision making/systems/optimizing the autonomous manufacturing and delivery systems/infrastructures,to make it better/also to mitigate/avoid/minimize harm,that comes from the over all system/unforseen/foreseen harm/analytics,to a degree/most AI systems are designed to be as efficient as possible/its not necessarily designed to look at certain things,an example of this would be,if someone killed off all of one animal,the animal that the extinct animal ate,could over populate, and in turn kill off another animal,because the animals food supply could become limited,due to over population,this is just one example of adverse effects that need to be found/prevented/mitigated; Also technological/ecological advancements would be valued/anything that betters the over all system,also all of these changes/improvements/advancements,creates new variables and COULD cause damage,so these type things also need to be analyzed, but most tasks/jobs would become completely autonomous.

      @mattmatt2417@mattmatt24176 ай бұрын
    • ​@@VeronicaExplainsGovernment/banks/businesses are DEFINITELY known for using old technology/old equipment/old software, even when their advised not to, for security reasons/practicality/because work loads are being slowed down, due to A LOT of factors, that shouldn't even have to be thought about nowadays/ since like 2010/2011/ like 11 or 12 years ago/using software/hardware from the 70s/80s just isn't practical, AT ALL, / newer/modern tech/software has become affordable nowadays, for basically anyone, but yes I know companies/businesses/banks/governments want to hang on to the past, I think if they could get away with it, they would use paper/filing cabinets/stamps/the pony express vs email/servers/networks/digital calendars and so on.

      @mattmatt2417@mattmatt24176 ай бұрын
  • I'd been in mainframe IT for 35 years. The last time my contract was cut, I decided I was done with the corporate world. I was tired of being a number in a system that a Sr VP could cut so he could earn his bonus. I now sell Viking/Medieval clothing at medieval and renaissance faires across the country. WAY harder job, lot less money, but so much more satisfying.

    @brucegoodman6743@brucegoodman67436 ай бұрын
    • Wtf haha:) I like medieval clothing :)

      @Xennox2@Xennox26 ай бұрын
    • I'm guessing you were financially secure due to your 35 years in IT in order to make that career switch. Lol

      @MrFIRESEAL117@MrFIRESEAL1175 ай бұрын
    • I just recently dodged a bullet with a job that looked really good on paper and that I was told flat out that I the top pick for by far - but the company axed the position days before they sent me the offer letter because upper management wanted to make their Q3 books look slightly better by not filling the position - a position I could tell just from the interview they desperately needed filled. The guy interviewing me was the only person doing the work and was extremely overloaded. It would have been a lot of fun, but given that the longest of my last 4 jobs were 1 year (they wanted me back in the office after telling me I wouldn't need to be in the office when I was hired - I resisted and they made up an excuse to fire me), 2 years (project was finished and was handed off to a team of maintainers that I had trained), 8 months (they hired me with the expectation that they could sell their services to clients and then couldn't, so I spent 75% of my time helping other people with their jobs instead of doing mine and they eventually realized they didn't have work for me and let me go) and 4 month (extremely bad fit), I'm very happy that they axed the position before I was hired and not 6 months down the line. Now I'm working for a university IT department, which is extremely nice. I started my career working for a university and I'm so glad to be doing so again - this time I'm even covered by a union. I'm even getting paid better than I would have been at the job that fell through, and this is 100% linux/unix rather than 75%/25% Linux/Windows. It's only been a couple months and I'm mostly liking where I am - my only complaint is that they hired me at an awkward time and there's not a lot for me to do - due to vacations and such, the big projects I'll be working on are delayed and waiting on other teams - so I've had a handful of pretty small/trivial tasks. Oh, and the fucking macbook they gave me. I somehow managed to be a (mostly) Linux admin for a decade and avoid macs entirely until now and I can not stand that thing - my hatred for windows pales in comparison to my hatred for that device.

      @masaufuku1735@masaufuku17354 ай бұрын
    • @@masaufuku1735 you can run Linux on your Mac.

      @leblanc22@leblanc224 ай бұрын
    • Quitting IT to sell ancient looking clothes is something... Quite a testimonial. Thank you for that. Greetings from Portugal.

      @VitorMadeira@VitorMadeira2 ай бұрын
  • COBOL isn't just a programming language, it's a lifestyle you never truly leave 😎 lol. But honestly I wish you luck in all your endeavors :)

    @foxmccloud8960@foxmccloud89606 ай бұрын
    • Thank you!! I'll never truly leave COBOL, even if I'm not working on it every day. It's like vim- it's just part of my brain now.

      @VeronicaExplains@VeronicaExplains6 ай бұрын
    • ​@@VeronicaExplainstalking is a great way to get things off/out your brain... I suggested Podcasting via the 2.0 spec as a additional way to so just that... Like blogging its a longer form then video and can provide a different outlet for Cobol or whatever else... Someone apparently felt my comment was spam... 1st and only spam report in the history of my account 😢

      @l0gic23@l0gic236 ай бұрын
    • I didn't choose the z/OS life, the z/OS life chose me.

      @Chemnitz11@Chemnitz116 ай бұрын
    • @@VeronicaExplains brr vim🙀

      @ITAlpaka@ITAlpaka6 ай бұрын
    • Veronica has time now to explain COBOL. 😅

      @zizlog_sound@zizlog_sound6 ай бұрын
  • I think the best description of COBOL was from one of my University Professors: COBOL was designed with the objective that non-technical mangers could read the programs, the result was a language that nobody could read and still be sane!

    @MsPaulathomas@MsPaulathomas6 ай бұрын
    • No, COBOL was there because you could hire people off the street, train them, have an analyst give them decent specifications, and they would generate acceptable code. The advantage of COBOL is that it is a restricted tool - it is pretty hard (nigh impossible) for a newbie to screw up in the ways that many a rookie C programmer does. Static calls, no pointers and no dynamic allocation of memory in vanilla COBOL was great for financial calculations. (Most of the time. I did have to use dynamic allocation for telecom account processing for accounts that could have hundreds of thousands of calls in a day. That was the only need for it in over 20 years of COBOL programming.)

      @vanlepthien6768@vanlepthien676810 сағат бұрын
  • How about teaching us COBOL too? There's not a lot of high quality content about it out there, and there's definitely interest. I'd also be interested in Ada, and nobody's doing that either.

    @rid9@rid96 ай бұрын
    • Soon I'll be able to do so! One of the challenges for me has always been ownership of code written. The end of the road for my active COBOL development time will facilitate more discussion! :)

      @VeronicaExplains@VeronicaExplains6 ай бұрын
    • @@VeronicaExplains as someone who had years of COBOL programming on non-IBM (mini/mainframe) systems, I've always wondered what your platform was and hearing that it was X86 (OpenCOBOL/GNUCobol or Micro Focus I would imagine) makes my heart leap! It's tough to find a gig out there for COBOL that's on an IBM platform hence the requirements of JCLandDB2 for most current openings. My NCR/Unisys COBOL background is good enough for standard COBOL (ANSI) and can get the job done but if one doesn't have IBM experience you're usually not considered. Excited for you and for the new content especially your COBOL history. Good luck!!

      @techhoppy@techhoppy6 ай бұрын
    • why cobol?

      @markgreen2170@markgreen21706 ай бұрын
    • Amen.

      @JstJaybeingJay@JstJaybeingJay6 ай бұрын
    • @@markgreen2170 For fun? For profit? Some of us just simply like to constantly learn to stuff; we get our kicks out of learning. Some want to learn COBOL because one can make a life-long career out of it. For some, it's both.

      @WereCatf@WereCatf6 ай бұрын
  • Hello Verónica, I'm from a small country called Uruguay in South America. I discovered your channel a while ago, and I loved the way you communicate and explain topics. I'm not a programmer or anything like that; I work in the field of cybersecurity. Nevertheless, all the topics you've covered on your channel have interested me. I really like the vintage-tech style you bring to the videos. I'm very glad that you've been able to take the step of doing what you love, because, after all, in the little time we have on this Earth, that's what we should do. I promise to watch all the videos you upload to support making this your lifelong job. Sending you a hug and congratulations.

    @IrenicusPalace@IrenicusPalace6 ай бұрын
    • Thank you for your support!

      @VeronicaExplains@VeronicaExplains6 ай бұрын
    • Hi. I'm your neighbor (literally). I live in Rio Grande do Sul near Chui, the southernmost border of Brazil. Many people call those who live near this region "Brasiguaio", because Spanish is already mixed with Portuguese, and the Uruguayan Gaucho and Brazilian Gaucho culture unites the two regions of the countries into one. Now that I've made my presentation, a curiosity. I have seen a movement some time ago of many Brazilian programmers going to Uruguay. Despite Brazil having a much richer market in technology, Uruguay has made a great incentive to take programmers from here to the other side of the border. It's been working, I have two friends from São Paulo who are in Montevideo.

      @kaue5028@kaue50286 ай бұрын
  • GO FOR IT!!!! Srsly, I believe from time to time I hit the same questioning about my relationship with ppl (comparing with fellows in the same area) and I'm happy that you found a middle ground between tech and human dynamics. I enjoy your videos a lot and, from time to time I get back to 'em if I need more info. I wish you all the best and regards from Brazil =)

    @henriquefreitas1916@henriquefreitas19166 ай бұрын
  • I love your content and selfishly I am thrilled to hear you are going to be doing this full time. When I was going through college your videos were some of the most helpful and enjoyable to watch. I don't think I would be where I am in my career without them. Congrats on the job change and I wish you the best!

    @tallansmith5381@tallansmith53816 ай бұрын
  • Very cool! Changes are scary, I know! I can feel it in your speech (even you’re never saying it clearly)… and I’m very glad you’ve taken that step tho. I hope - even believe - you’re gonna be very happy with your decision. Since I’ve been following your Web content production, I can say that’s “YOU.” Good luck, and go for it!! 🤗 Reach and help everyone you can.

    @Montegasppa@Montegasppa6 ай бұрын
  • More Veronica videos sounds amazing! Your upbeat approach and positive messaging are highlights to my week when you release something new. Best of luck on the new direction!

    @Kehvarl@Kehvarl6 ай бұрын
  • I'm so glad to hear that you'll be making more videos! From one developer to another, I truly appreciate your perspective on collaboration and talking with people. I love being heads down on a problem but if I were in a job where I was heads down coding all day, every day, I would probably go crazy! I wish you the best in your endeavor to expand the channel content and I look forward to supporting your work in any way I can as a fan of your channel! PS. Looking forward to the newsboat video

    @Tedwarddddd@Tedwarddddd6 ай бұрын
  • Congrats on the big move, Veronica. Your musicianship has always been evident, as are your talents as an educator and creator. Here's wishing great things for you!

    @DanielMReck@DanielMReck6 ай бұрын
  • It's quite a leap to leave the stability and familiarity of a career and pursue your passion, that's very admirable and awesome! I hope I can do the same someday

    @Kyle-re4mf@Kyle-re4mf6 ай бұрын
  • Brave move Veronica. I wish you the best. You're a natural on camera and your sense of humor is fantastic. Love the blooper reel at the end.

    @jpmyers6950@jpmyers69504 ай бұрын
  • Love your channel and check in with your content from time to time and I'm really looking forward to what you're going to do next. Your accumulated knowledge and wisdom combined with your ability to explain stuff is hugely valuable!

    @MunnyLerner@MunnyLerner6 ай бұрын
  • Happy to be a new subscriber, these videos bring me joy and remind me of my past. I appreciate how articulate you are, thanks for bringing us along for the ride. 😎

    @thescurry@thescurry6 ай бұрын
  • Congratulations on making the difficult decison to cast off the "golden hand-cuffs" and focus on a fulltime teaching career here and other venues. I'm a long time consumer of your content and a brand new Patreon supporter. You are a talented and passionate teacher and you have my best wishes for success. Personal note: I wrote COBOL programs on HP3000 systems for 11 years until 1991. I moved on to other programming languages and never missed leaving COBOL behind,

    @mlong5666@mlong56666 ай бұрын
  • I hope your channel grows, Veronica. 100K soon enough.

    @mariochagan9711@mariochagan97116 ай бұрын
    • Thank you! It's been a blast so far and I'm excited for what's next!

      @VeronicaExplains@VeronicaExplains6 ай бұрын
    • Sorry that I had to ruin the 42 likes, but I wanted to like the comment 😅

      @ricardokullock2535@ricardokullock25356 ай бұрын
  • WOOOT!!! ❤❤❤ AWESOME! You being you without the distraction will ROCK. (I thought the channel was your full-time gig because your videos are so good) A star shines on the hour of this decision! 😊

    @MartinLaskowski@MartinLaskowski6 ай бұрын
  • Thank you for sharing all your thoughts!! That is a huge step and this is fantastic. Looking forward to see more of your very valuable videos! Take your time!

    @sebastianhildebrandt@sebastianhildebrandt6 ай бұрын
  • Awesome and congrats! Making this change can be scary for sure. You have a ton of support in retro computer and tech community. I'm super excited to see what comes next, especially with your channel and content. Now go get on with your bad self 🙂

    @geekwithsocialskills@geekwithsocialskills6 ай бұрын
  • I'm kind of the opposite, I enjoy staying "behind the scenes", just knowing that my work makes something else function or function better than before. I always was a little jealous of people who can do this stuff, talking to people and exposing themselves. Best wishes to you and your channel, I hope you can make it work.

    @shabnakadyr1564@shabnakadyr15646 ай бұрын
  • Hey Veronica , congratulations on following your heart!! Your way of explaining things it is one of the kind! The world needs more people like you

    @evelinamarinova4099@evelinamarinova40996 ай бұрын
  • I love this for you Veronica! I know you are just going to thrive in your new pursuits. I'm sure your other subscribers will agree when I say we are here cheering for you and will be here to support you.

    @AdirondackVirtual@AdirondackVirtual6 ай бұрын
  • Congratulations! I know you'll continue to be a smashing success. 🙏

    @yooperpete@yooperpete6 ай бұрын
    • Oh my goodness, thank you so much!!

      @VeronicaExplains@VeronicaExplains6 ай бұрын
  • I'm very happy for you, Veronica. I wish you all the best in your new endeavors, and I look forward to seeing more frequent videos from you in the future. 🎉

    @yooperpete@yooperpete6 ай бұрын
    • Thank you!!!

      @VeronicaExplains@VeronicaExplains6 ай бұрын
  • You are one of my favorite channels and I am happy to see you move to new endeavors. I look forward to your content :-)

    @dastafford@dastafford6 ай бұрын
  • Best of luck with your change of direction! You are a wonderful orator and really bring the topics you speak about to life. I'm very much looking forward to the increased frequency of videos here on KZhead.

    @ObsidianMercian@ObsidianMercian6 ай бұрын
  • As an engineer slash artist that has quit jobs and not quit jobs. I applaud you. It’s always so good to see other people not waste their time and potential

    @danielsanichiban@danielsanichiban6 ай бұрын
  • Behind you all the way! I spent 9 years in IT working from home. Got laid off just before COVID, then made the HUGE leap to become a Middle School Engineering teacher! Best decision ever! Good luck with your awesome journey!

    @MrVasile@MrVasile6 ай бұрын
    • What's covered in middle school engineering?

      @NeigeFraiche@NeigeFraiche6 ай бұрын
  • This is an amazing update. Congratulations! I have a similar background, but I actually prefer working with systems and not people, so it is always super awesome to hear your opinions and perspectives.

    @ShaunPrince@ShaunPrince6 ай бұрын
  • Having made such transitions myself...I still find your transition scary, too! The very best of good luck. That said...I am SUPER happy that we get some more of your precious time. I hope you enjoy the heck out of making content for this platform. I'll be here watching. Aloha!

    @jimcabezola3051@jimcabezola30516 ай бұрын
  • Scary Changes but I hope they lead to good things. Also I could so totally see you putting out COBAL or other videos even if it was a training series behind patreon or kofi or something? I'm not much into programming but I do want to learn a little to do things at home.

    @warthunder1969@warthunder19696 ай бұрын
    • I picked up 2 shirts from your merch store to help out :). Hopeful it helps you out a bit during your break.

      @warthunder1969@warthunder19696 ай бұрын
  • Good for you!! It's so nice to see a fellow tech geek take control of their destiny and make their future their own. You are an inspiration. Be ready for the lows, they will make you doubt this decision, but you will prevail, 100%.

    @davesnyder7094@davesnyder70946 ай бұрын
    • Thank you so much! As far as the sound on the outro, pretty sure it's my Subdecay Liquid Sunshine (overdrive pedal) going into my Fender Hot Rod Deluxe. If I remember correctly, I also used a JHS 3-series distortion DI'd right into my interface for the solo part (not sponsored by any of the aforementioned brands, just like their stuff).

      @VeronicaExplains@VeronicaExplains6 ай бұрын
    • @@VeronicaExplains Hello! Can I listen to the whole track?

      @Getoverhere666@Getoverhere6666 ай бұрын
  • I am happy for you. You are a natural teacher and that shows in your videos, especially the lesson ones. I have a feeling you will do amazing well in this next chapter of your life.

    @jscollett@jscollett6 ай бұрын
  • More videos is great news for your subscribers - and if you get to enjoy what you are doing, that's even better. Looking forward to the changes and wishing you all the best with this move. I think this will work out well for you (and the viewers)!

    @DavidDavisL@DavidDavisL6 ай бұрын
  • Congrats to you. It’s always best to love what you do and who you work with. I wish you the best of luck on your journey! I’d love to see you talk about mixing music creation and tools to facilitate it on Linux. I’m a Linux user as well as learning piano (on a digital piano) and don’t know anything about the tools Linux has to work with.

    @osisho3323@osisho33236 ай бұрын
    • Thank you! I plan to do a bit more about music making on Linux, as it's not the focus of many of the music channels and it's definitely a *whole thing*. As someone who's been making music on Linux since around 2006 or so, there's a lot to talk about!

      @VeronicaExplains@VeronicaExplains6 ай бұрын
    • I find it strange that applications in C are sometimes considered legacy and some managers want them to be modernized by rewriting them in Java.

      @user-vr2rq5hl6l@user-vr2rq5hl6l6 ай бұрын
  • I hope you'll find time to do a "beginner to intermediate in Cobol" series, which takes us from hello world through to a simple but complete accounting application or the like, then when it does well, start a second series of two-to-three part Cobol advanced explainer videos, on those complex subjects that come up once you're past the intermediate

    @aarcaneorg@aarcaneorg6 ай бұрын
    • @@GladeSwope : COBOL isn’t hard to read. It was designed to have sentence like structure. Maybe the original programmer wasn’t a very COBOL programmer. That’s not COBOLs fault. BTW, I can code in multiple computer languages, including COBOL, but prefer Assembly Language as well.

      @deepsleep7822@deepsleep78226 ай бұрын
    • Uhm that does not sound like a very productive use of her time really I think there are a lot of videos like that on youtube that are competing, also does her channel even focus on instruction videos cause on my first glance it's mostly odd-ware or very specific short tutorials.

      @PutineluAlin@PutineluAlin6 ай бұрын
  • Congrats on the job change! Totally understandable wanting a change of pace, and I for one am excited to see the increase in content! I also can't wait to see what new bullet points you use to describe yourself, now that you can't use COBOL maintainer! I'll definitely have to try to get you to come out and do a presentation to my employer, not sure what topic we could have you talk on, but it would be so cool to get to actually meet you and hear a fun talk!

    @AzureSkyBeta@AzureSkyBeta6 ай бұрын
  • I've been getting recommendations for your videos for the past little while and decided to finally watch one, the one about iPods. That one led me to another, and eventually to this one. You must be doing something right since it looks like your reach is growing, I just subbed.

    @matt_kelly@matt_kellyАй бұрын
  • My understanding (as a Canadian) is if you don't have a "traditional" job in America, health insurance is extremely expensive (e.g. COBRA). Given how small this channel is (for now), how much of a hit will health insurance be to your finances?

    @TheSuperiorQuickscoper@TheSuperiorQuickscoper6 ай бұрын
    • I don't want to get too into the weeds publicly here, other than to say that our health insurance in the United States is pretty awful, and I'm lucky to have coverage through another member of the household at present.

      @VeronicaExplains@VeronicaExplains6 ай бұрын
    • @@VeronicaExplains Awful is an understatement. I had to go to the emergency room a week after I was laid off from my job and the bill came in just under $20k, yep, count it $20,000. Healthcare is definitely a concern for my next steps too.

      @vincei4252@vincei42526 ай бұрын
    • wow, I’ve never seen x86 cobol. Only on big iron, mainframe.

      @fivevs1@fivevs16 ай бұрын
    • COBRA is the most expensive way to buy insurance. Individuals have the ability to buy direct from the insurers, which does cut the cost pretty dramatically. I'm a contract-for-hire worker, paying my own insurance every month, and it's doable.

      @Wythaneye@Wythaneye6 ай бұрын
    • @@fivevs1 I suspect most COBOL code today is running in an emulated "Big Iron" environment. I saw this happen 20 years ago, pushed by a "Big Iron" purveyor themselves (Unisys).

      @NullHand@NullHand6 ай бұрын
  • Cobol was my first language in College (1981 to 1985). On an IBM 4341. Then my first job at Atomic Energy of Canada, was CICS Cobol, along with JCL. Being largely an engineering company, I dabbled in PL/1 as well. I turned 60 this September and after forty years of code, I retired. The last part of my career was mostly Oracle PL/SQL. But dropping a deck of cards was painful :)

    @TheBreamer999@TheBreamer9996 ай бұрын
    • Do you know why ROWNUM in oracle slows queries a lot ?

      @imhassane@imhassane5 ай бұрын
  • This is great news, and I’m glad you are making changes for your betterment. I would love seeing anything you post honestly. Learning from you and your experience would be amazing.

    @alexmendez5541@alexmendez55416 ай бұрын
  • i hope your channel grows! looking forward to seeing what you do next

    @jacevedo770@jacevedo7706 ай бұрын
  • "No body puts Baby in the corner"

    @ShawnBrezny@ShawnBrezny6 ай бұрын
  • Keep up these awesome videos!

    @Hellgreen@Hellgreen6 ай бұрын
    • Thank you so much!!!!

      @VeronicaExplains@VeronicaExplains6 ай бұрын
  • Always liked your content so far and am glad you will be more present with new content in the future. Congratulation on you finding your way back to what you love to do and good luck with your career path choice.

    @MarcoKrieger@MarcoKrieger6 ай бұрын
  • excited for you! good luck on your new journey!!

    @bushsk_r@bushsk_r6 ай бұрын
  • would love to hear a little more about working in cobol, do you all commit stuff to git, are there unit tests and code reviews? theres testing environments too im guessing? how often is code pushed?

    @RafhaelCedeno@RafhaelCedeno6 ай бұрын
    • Ooooo, I'd love to cover all of that at some point. I've seen a lot of COBOL using bespoke versioning such as renaming an old file from FILE.CBL to FILE.CBL.BAK_YYMMDD, that sort of thing. That's mostly for less maintained codebases, though- I often script out a conversion to git for those and then use git going forward. Proper unit tests aren't baked into any of the projects I work on but I fake it out with compiler tests- as I compile a program I script out some additional tests to make sure the data does what I expect it to (essentially "test-driven development"). My guess is that some compilers or runtimes might even allow some sort of unit testing, but licensing has always been trouble at my small scale. Larger teams probably have a much easier time building proper tests.

      @VeronicaExplains@VeronicaExplains6 ай бұрын
  • I wrote COBOL 50 years ago and still do -- very lucrative.

    @pavloskairis9994@pavloskairis99946 ай бұрын
  • Good for you... love the idea of taking back your day to day... sometimes I feel all the learning that many have done is just not reciprocated back to others new and old.. no matter what the profession is.. new sub right here! thanks for the opening offer.

    @tom95076@tom950766 ай бұрын
  • You're a great teacher and I'm confident you're gonna teach us tons of more stuff! Congrats on this new stage of life

    @choppedcheesegaming@choppedcheesegaming6 ай бұрын
  • I wonder (have been for a little while) what's the story behind the COBOL gigs. How did somebody get into that in modern times?

    @Ybalrid@Ybalrid6 ай бұрын
    • Oh, once the dust has settled and the servers are offline and the work is in the rear view, I'm sure I'll talk about it.

      @VeronicaExplains@VeronicaExplains6 ай бұрын
    • Last year, we had interns who learned it from two senior developers, and most of them stayed with it.

      @Chemnitz11@Chemnitz116 ай бұрын
    • @@VeronicaExplains Please do.

      @dwight4k@dwight4k3 ай бұрын
  • I would love a history of COBOL anmd why it is still so out there.

    @robertmurphy9320@robertmurphy93206 ай бұрын
    • Probably worth a video, but basically because in the first wave of "computers are awesome" everybody jumped on COBOL because it was the best language for business applications at the time. And billions (some estimates say hundreds of billions or trillions) of lines of code were written in COBOL. Many of those systems were well engineered in stable and established businesses and basically did everything they were supposed to, so it would have been costly and pointless to replace them. At some point all of the developers who wrote the programs were retired or dead and most people had moved on to other languages, which only make the prospect of porting these programs more expensive. So they're still around... running half the world quietly in the background.

      @timseguine2@timseguine26 ай бұрын
  • Best of luck. I've really enjoyed your videos despite being a fellow backend, often legacy systems contractor who was familiar with most of the content already type. Your enthusiasm and clear explanations made me keep watching and I think it's helped me better explain technical things to my non-tech colleagues.

    @peteryates308@peteryates3086 ай бұрын
  • This whole time I thought you made us wait for new videos just to build anticipation lol I wish you the best. Your videos are always a hit and I'm sure the youtube gods will bless you. You're awesome.

    @Nomad-qm3zf@Nomad-qm3zf6 ай бұрын
  • I thought cobol devs have pop star wages :)

    @krzysztofk.8842@krzysztofk.88426 ай бұрын
    • That's what I heard too

      @foxmccloud8960@foxmccloud89606 ай бұрын
    • If you want to get into it, it's pretty straight forward. It's a much smaller learning curve than a lot of other languages because, while archaic, it was intended for a particular use case and isn't the swiss army knife that things like C, C++, Perl and Python became.

      @samurphy@samurphy6 ай бұрын
    • For Y2K you got to determine your own salary.

      @tibbydudeza@tibbydudeza6 ай бұрын
    • If you can read english, you can write cobol.

      @Lucretia9000@Lucretia90006 ай бұрын
    • Oh, the money is great. Someone asked me what I'll miss about COBOL day-to-day, and I definitely said "getting paid to do COBOL." Stable contracts, good pay, reasonably predictable work. It has a ton of advantages.

      @VeronicaExplains@VeronicaExplains6 ай бұрын
  • When watching your video, I had the feeling as if we were having a pleasant chat in some bar. Awesome! I send you my best wishes for your future endeavors!

    @holgersebert4134@holgersebert41346 ай бұрын
  • Congrats! Looking forward to seeing what you do in your next adventure. You got this!

    @henryh9289@henryh92894 ай бұрын
  • i was just wondering the other day when your next video will be out. congrats on reaching the threshold and mindset where you can do this full time.

    @borisattva@borisattva6 ай бұрын
  • You absolutely deserve to feel stoked for this new chapter in life. And I'm stoked too, to see what you want to show us next :)

    @Gruesome420@Gruesome420Ай бұрын
  • This is the first of your videos to pop up in my feed, and you can count me as a new subscriber; I hope it helps in some small way. My software career began with COBOL and FORTRAN back when they were current languages. I’m semi-retired now, and am familiar with the feeling that the position you’re in just isn’t right for you. I admire your courage, confidence and self-awareness and hope you find a path that suits you!

    @RJNoe@RJNoe6 ай бұрын
  • Great news, Veronica! I am very happy for you. Change is always scary, but I think you are doing what you want to do. So you are doing the right thing. Good luck to you 💪😎

    @mariogalimberti9852@mariogalimberti98526 ай бұрын
  • Just came across your channel and watched several videos at work and I love it! For me, the combination of modern Linux discussion and retro tech is a perfect niche for me and your punk rock theme you put into the videos is an added bonus! I hope your transition into full time goes well, I'm looking forward to seeing more!

    @Retro.Reverie@Retro.Reverie2 ай бұрын
  • I'm really happy for you! Changes make the wolrd go round. I'm following you from Italy and I think you make wonderfoul video. Like we say in Italy "In bocca lupo" for your new .. JOB!

    @gianlucaagus5275@gianlucaagus52756 ай бұрын
  • You just got yourself a subscriber. I constantly teach/train others to move our of their comfort zone, to experience, experiment, fail and succeed. Youre on a good path !!

    @arieheinrich3457@arieheinrich34576 ай бұрын
  • I've begun a dive down into console linux as I've been feeling nostalgic for that vibe. So I've found your channel at exactly the right time. :) Good luck, I look forward to seeing what you continue to build!

    @shanefera@shanefera6 ай бұрын
  • Hey Veronica, thanks for continuing this awesome work you are doing here on KZhead. It's great to see you pursue your passion and starting a new career isn't easy, but the community stands with you and we hope good things will come out for the channel.

    @guilherme1556@guilherme15565 ай бұрын
    • Thank you so much for the kind words and the support!

      @VeronicaExplains@VeronicaExplains5 ай бұрын
  • I really enjoyed and appreciated this video. Happy New Year and good luck to you on your journey!

    @kloudchildtv@kloudchildtv4 ай бұрын
  • Oh dang that's super scary but it's also super exciting I really really hope that this is a major positive new start for you!

    @sandwich2473@sandwich24736 ай бұрын
  • Veronica, I love your videos, love your enthusiasm and love the way you explain things. If you want to step away from bland gigs - go for it! I'm sure your subscribers will enjoy more content in your very own and unique style. Thank you for your work and wishing you all the best in any and all future endeavours. Greetz from Switzerland.

    @tombanzxt@tombanzxt6 ай бұрын
  • Congratulations! I JUST discovered your channel today and I’m already several videos in. Looking forward to checking out the back catalog.

    @slightlyprofessional@slightlyprofessionalАй бұрын
  • Best of luck, Veronica! More time for you to make more of these awesome videos is a big win for us, your fans. Hopefully, it will be even more of a big (and sustainable) win for you as well.

    @yosimor@yosimor6 ай бұрын
  • It's very nice that you want to focus on talking about things that fascinate you and explaining things to us. I think you are very good at that and I am looking forward to many exciting videos from you. Greetings from Germany...

    @zemmel63@zemmel636 ай бұрын
  • So glad you’re doing well and looking for new adventures in Veronica Explains. You’re the best!

    @pixelpusher8986@pixelpusher89866 ай бұрын
  • Bravo! You will be great! I wrote COBOL/JCL for the mainframes at an A&D company back in the day so I know of which you speak. Keep up the good work!

    @rfuesting@rfuesting6 ай бұрын
  • Congratulations Veronica you are a recovering Sys Admin (with COBOL!). Stay strong, you have my support don't give in and be tempted to go back 💖

    @shaunypie99@shaunypie996 ай бұрын
  • Well done !!! I haven't programmed in COBOL since about 1993 !! Amazing how much of that legacy stuff is still about. But follow your heart and you will never go far wrong. I quit most of my 9-5 IT admin to focus on the more important things in life (and my retro Commodores :D) ...life is really short and I wasted so many of my best years in a haze of 100+ Hour weeks..... Great you have belief in yourself, you will do well, and I look forward to more brilliant videos :) Thank you

    @retrorter89@retrorter896 ай бұрын
  • Bold move @Veronica, good luck to you. I have been a sub for a few months and love the stuff you talk about. All the best in your new journey, I'll be wayching. 🙂

    @StephenLinsley@StephenLinsley6 ай бұрын
  • I subscribed to support you in this new adventure! It's maybe the season, many of my preferred youtubers in this moment quit their jobs to became full time KZhead content creators.

    @Florin76@Florin766 ай бұрын
  • Best wishes for your new path! I am confident that you will have lots of great ideas to put into video content inspired by Bill Nye, Ms Frizzle, and your own exuberant mind which flow over with an abundance of creative, diverse ideas and combinations and permutations of ideas. Thanks 😅

    @user-vr2rq5hl6l@user-vr2rq5hl6l6 ай бұрын
  • Good luck!! We will be here to watch your videos!

    @catupeloco@catupeloco6 ай бұрын
  • I don't know why. First video I see from you. But you put a smile on my face and I can't wait to see more of it :3

    @PenguinMindTricks@PenguinMindTricks6 ай бұрын
  • Wow, this is a pretty big leap without a lot of certainty! I'm hoping for the best with new life breathed into your journey! Best of luck with it!

    @zinsy23@zinsy236 ай бұрын
  • I am sure this change will bring you back all alive and refreshed, have a good break, rest well and listen to your inner voice. I will be waiting for your videos

    @RachidElBoukiouty@RachidElBoukiouty6 ай бұрын
  • good luck on your new chapter .. best of luck!

    @wilsmith7173@wilsmith71736 ай бұрын
  • Congrats on the pending career change! I'm a mainframer/COBOLer revamping myself into a Cloud Data Engineer! I'm having a blast learning new things.

    @iteagle03@iteagle036 ай бұрын
  • As a new viewer who loves your “Miss Frizzle meets Bill Nye Approach” and your intro music, I’m excited to see you more out in front doing the explains 🖖🏼🤙🏼

    @MeisterJager90@MeisterJager906 ай бұрын
  • came across your channel love the content so far loved computing since i was young working on my IBM windows 3.1 pc cant get enough of retro PCs ...good luck on your endevaour and got my support 🙏👍

    @frankthompson678@frankthompson6786 ай бұрын
  • You’re awesome: bold step you’re taking and your commitment and passion to work and teach people tech here will be your sail. Good luck!!

    @peteygbklyn@peteygbklyn6 ай бұрын
  • Ay kid you're going to be alright! ;) Change is good. You're so relatable to so many, your style is infections, and much needed today. Keep it up!

    @BoogieDownBXX@BoogieDownBXX4 ай бұрын
  • I wish you the best of luck in your new endeavors. I just happened across your channel and decided to subscribe as I am just Benny coding journey with Course Careers. Im adding more channels like yours to help in my new endeavor in tech. Thanks and I look forward to future videos!

    @LouHoop@LouHoop6 ай бұрын
  • Just discovered your channel, it's so wonderful! Came for the electronics, stayed for the career insights! So delightful, new sub here.

    @inrit@inrit2 ай бұрын
  • Follow your dreams al! It's great to watch. Hope the lack of your technical work in the industry will be filled with people you taught. Cheers!

    @VincentTubed@VincentTubed5 ай бұрын
  • I'm stoked for you. Looking forward to seeing more videos from you.

    @MarkRidlen@MarkRidlen5 ай бұрын
  • Looking forward to learnng from you!

    @aflawrence@aflawrence6 ай бұрын
  • Congratulations on finding calling! Good luck, we'll be rooting for you!

    @BradleyBrown@BradleyBrown6 ай бұрын
  • I'm really happy for you Veronica and pleased we will be seeing and hearing a lot more from you. Your videos are very fun and interesting to watch, while keeping us all wanting more information lol. Having a soft spot myself for old skool retro computers like the ZX Spectrum and Commodore Amiga, I especially liked your 'Using a Commodore 64 on the modern internet' which was great to watch. I'm certainly looking forward to your Linux videos and anything else you want to teach us about 👍😃💻⌨

    @TheOriginalChazno5@TheOriginalChazno55 ай бұрын
  • Thank you, you gave me the perspective to be hiding behind the scenes... I'll start soon a channel too. You gave me the inspiration...

    @edgarrod71@edgarrod716 ай бұрын
  • I wish you the best of luck, and I finally subscribed. You make good videos and obviously have a lot of knowledge and experience to share.

    @Guishan_Lingyou@Guishan_Lingyou6 ай бұрын
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