Experts in old computer languages are suddenly in hot demand. Corporations need them to rewrite billions of lines of code so that computers will recognize '00' in dates as the year 2000 instead of 1900.
Some experts see salaries at least doubling before the problem is corrected.
Bill Payson, President of The Senior Staff, hailed the opportunity for Seniors. Youngsters have neither the knowledge nor inclination to reprogram computers designed before the Internet was born. Payson urged all professional systems managers, programmers, testers, et al. over the age of 50 and all companies dependent on older technology to register with The Senior Staff. There is no registration fee. Free Worldwide Registry for Project Managers, Programmers, Testers, Systems Analysts, etc.