My mother built her career on COBOL from the mid-70s to the late-90s. She's retired now, but still talks about what a great language it is. She tried learning Java in the late-90s, toward the end of her career, but hated it. "What's an object? Everything? Everything is an object? That's just dumb." LOL

And yeah, she still gets offers for consulting work, but she wants no part of it. She's done working.