The language isn't the problem with COBOL, it's the likelihood that you will be maintaining (not adding to, but maintaining) a software system that may not have any docs and the original implementers are dead. Next, there will be nobody to verify the business rules that are specified in the code. Finally after you make a mistake about a business rule, you will be thrown under the bus.
I have full confidence that the US Military could take Greenland, I don't have confidence that the US could deal with the international fallout that would come from it.
I'm also a builder for tabletop, and if you're still interested in 3d printing some what take a look at tesin printers. They have different trade-offs than FDM (filament) printers, but mine has been very reliable without any tinkering. It's really nice for printing stl's from online (I don't model anything myself).
If you had to write Java you probably would like Lombok if you dislike boilerplate (it can build object constructors, comparators, and field accessor methods via annotation).
We celebrate when the workers that were betrayed are better compensated and at least 50% actually come back (they may have already found new work or may not want to go back just to be fired illegally again).
The line of reasoning that I have is this: there are many artists, entrepreneurs, scientists, etc out there, but few of them have the financial security and connections via their wealthy family to chase those careers that someone like Taylor Swift had growing up. Financial security in this case being a family there for you that can fully support you if your life goes sideways.
The issue that I see when we put people like Taylor Swift on the success pedestal, and they don't acknowledge the privilege and luck that it took to get there, it feels disingenuous.
Getting onto a short term contract sounds like a good next move.