Comment by adamnemecek
12 years ago
How well are you paid? You don't have to give specific numbers, just like in comparison with the average. I've heard rumors of people getting paid a shit ton of money to maintain these sorts of systems but those might be just rumors.
Sorry to disappoint you, but my job isn't as such the maintenance of a legacy system. We write new code in Caché, which includes things used by a wider world like JavaScript and SQL as well.
Ask me again in two or three decades, but our codebase is continuously being touched in all places and there is an ongoing drive to weed out legacy code all the time. But just on the side I've been able to get rid of about 30% of all the legacy code here without spending that much time on it at all mostly with the help of grep, in part because our system has now moved to being 100% web from a desktop client.
As for salary, never enough :P, but considering my age, the economy, and my lifestyle I'm pretty happy.