Unlike many comments here, this doesn't resonate with me. Grinds have always had some part that benefits from automation. Rarely can the whole thing be automa

Unlike many comments here, this doesn't resonate with me. Grinds have always had some part that benefits from automation. Rarely can the whole thing be automated in any reasonable timeframe, but individuals parts can easily be. Often the magic is that those around me don't even realize that you can partially automate it so they end up thinking I did it all by hand. There is a trap in over thinking the automation. Sometimes the partially manual solution takes an hour full while automation takes 8. But I'm failing to think of a time in my career where a grind was repetitive and fully manual but not improved by some trick of automation. Notepad++, regex, and your language of choice builds a very powerful set of automation for virtual problems. For the enhanced suite, toss in a library to get data to and from excel and access and another to navigate and scrape HTML pages.