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I'd imagine it's easier for companies to train you up in the stuff they wrap around COBOL nowadays than it is to teach somebody COBOL from scratch (despite COBOL being the most straightforward English language-based programming language that ever there was!). I last wrote a COBOL program in the...

COBOL programmers are a dying breed. Literally. Many of them are now in their sixties and seventies. In your Northern neck of the woods, all the government core systems (if memory serves, DHSS in Lytham, Inland Revenue in Telford) were written in COBOL. As were all the core major bank...

Employers in the IT industry, in my experience, will nearly always prefer a candidate with as little as a year's relevant experience over a graduate with no experience.

This is very good advice. A few years ago my son and his g/f moved in with me for nearly a year because they were struggling to make ends meet. Both took jobs at call centres initially, just to get some money coming in. Within about six weeks they both had their foot in the door at Amex. With...

You don't say how long you worked in the pub, but presumably long enough to get to grips with the basics. So you NOW have experience of pub work. Just because you got a raw deal with one pub, doesn't necessarily mean you'd get the same with another one. Maybe also take a look at the major pub...