This whole thing is really irresponsible in so many ways . I sincerely hope you rethink your decision on this and use this as a hard lesson and move on . You ' re being unfair to your child , Rosie , and Rosie ' s new parents . <| sep |> Depends on where you work . My current company is still actively hiring people who know Pascal , because we have a legacy system . Our newest system is written in Java 6 . Finance , science , and government sectors still have old codebases . If you like those kind of places , you can have cushy Java or C jobs for the rest of your career . If you want the flashy offices , startup type stuff it ' s nice to have a mix with some new tech . <| sep |> Having kids costs a lot and therefore is not FIRE . Sacrifice , people ! s