Is a career switch to the mainframe/cobol world responsible?

Hello all,

I am in my mid twenties and got five year fulltime IT experience (system
engineer in the microsoft world)
I found out that these days a lot of major companies are in desperate need
of mainframe people.
A manager told me they are hard to find, especially young people dont wanna
learn mainframe anymore.

I found a big financial enterprise which search a lot of mainframe
application developers (cobol, pl1, etc..).

Is the choice to switch to the mainframe world, and lets say become a cobol
developer, a responsible choice for a young
guy to make? Does the mainframe and the cobol has a future?

Thanks in advance,

Patriarch




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