is the U.S.A the best place to look for a job as a

[estonpillay]

is the U.S.A the best place to look for a job as a

[phi071237]

i suspect that you are an american citizen. of course, i would say USA is the best place for you if you can't find a job in china or singapore

[DramaGuy]

India, then China, then Indonesia. I love Cobol but it is dead.

[goldbugted]

I will tell you about my limited experience.I am a Canadian citizen and resident. Canada is a HORRIBLE place to work as a programmer. The pay is extremely low in comparison to the United States, particularly if you have an advanced degree (Ph.D. in my case).I took a job in the U.S. that paid roughly 5 times the salary that I could expect in Canada.So my limited experience tells me that the US is WAAAAAY better than Canada. I could not possibly accurately tell you how it fares relative to the rest of the world, but I would suspect that it would fare well.Agreed with the above, COBOL limits yourself far too much. It is a small and shrinking field - it was great coming up to Y2K, but has been downhill since then.You are far better to learn highly language-independent skills, such as taking courses on algorithms (searching, sorting, determining complexity and such), digital signal processing (DSP), signal processing and mathematics.

[attagirl]

I agree that the wages for programmers are very good in the U.S. But there is a also a lot of competition now days as this is one of the most popular fields of study right now and has been for a few years.

I also agree about Cobol most companies have moved away from using this and code that were once written with COBOL is now being replaced.