Learning how to use the fundamental tools of your field is part of the job, whatever field you are in. It is generous of you to help her with R (which is not u

Learning how to use the fundamental tools of your field is part of the job, whatever field you are in. It is generous of you to help her with R (which is not used in all fields). Latex is mandatory for any scientist in STEM, she won't escape it. Moreover, Latex is not at all like programing, content and Latex instructions are mixed. It may help to think about it like an empowered HTML/CSS for scientific writing. I think your idea is doomed for several reasons: - Becoming an expert to the point you can sell your skills to scientists will take you a lot of time - Money is going thin in labs, it is unlikely that anyone has a budget line for this kind of thing - As a scientist, I would be very suspicious of someone contacting me for this kind of work. I would suspect an attempt to steal ideas and/or work. - There are (were?) people in the labs to help scientists: research associate.