My COBOL is actionscript (flash plugins). I got started programming with ActionScript 2, writing games and doing some freelance projects building things like image carousels and navigation. Not nearly as lucrative as $350/hr quoted here but I doubt a lot of new projects consider flash unless there are no alternatives.
Yeah I recently saw ATT looking for an actionscript person their internal apps must require IE and run on flash, can't imagine its for customer facing applications.