Perhaps try automating a non-tech job: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/tenoq https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/tenoq > Hired full time, a

Perhaps try automating a non-tech job: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/tenoq https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/tenoq > Hired full time, and I make a good living. My work involves a lot of "data entry", verification, blah blah. I am a programmer at heart and figured out how to make a script do all my work for me... > So reddit, am I a scumbag? I work about 8 hours a week doing real work, the rest is spent playing games on my phone or reading reddit... (This guy ended up becoming the lead software engineer of his own department, doing something he enjoyed: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/vomtn/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/vomtn/) patio11 example of a simple CRUD app: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-programmer/ https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pr... > For example, consider an internal travel expense reporting form. Across a company with 2,000 employees, that might save 5,000 man-hours a year (at an average fully-loaded cost of $50 an hour) versus handling expenses on paper, for a savings of $250,000 a year. It does not matter to the company that the reporting form is the world’s simplest CRUD app, it only matters that it either saves the company costs or generates additional revenue.