When I was a young chicken, I thought all I had to do was work hard and I would be appreciated and promoted. This was 20+ years ago and it was no truer then tha

When I was a young chicken, I thought all I had to do was work hard and I would be appreciated and promoted. This was 20+ years ago and it was no truer then than it is today. Know your worth. You need to calculate in your head how much you save the company through automation and take it back to the pen / paper and filing cabinet days. It's probably in the hundreds of thousands a year. If a company is expecting you to kill yourself, it's because of their screw up. The guy asking you will take the credit for the miracle you provided because of his excellent management skills. The OP should take that as the slap in the face that it is and move on to a company that is more appreciative of his skills. Also, don't work for cheap, it dilutes the craft.