The single joy I got was a burst of shell scripting I did...out of my own volition to create tools to help AEs as many quarters went by without booking any deal

The single joy I got was a burst of shell scripting I did...out of my own volition to create tools to help AEs as many quarters went by without booking any deals. The tool was very successful and all I did was just receive messages in slack to hit the up arrow key and press enter in my terminal. I guess I could've just did it manually then I'd have a steady supply of repetitive hand eye coordination exercises but I automated it in about a week of concentrated coding at the office because it just felt so good to code and produce something of value after months of redditing and growing fat from all the food and beer at the office. I relished it, it was the single most proudest feeling to announce the tool to the company. I can see software jobs with peers who are self concious about imposter syndrome and other senior egos scrutinizing your commits day after day can add a toll. It was such a relaxing environment to be left on my own to produce such a specialized tool with tremendous productivity and revenue boost. It was only after I introduced this ability we started seeing some bookings. Not many software jobs I experienced had this much freedom and it was exactly the environment that gave rise to such high-multiple value generating tool.