>I have coding skills, but cannot really do anything else. I don't know how you think that could mean you'd be useless. Coding skills are useful in a lot of pl

>I have coding skills, but cannot really do anything else. I don't know how you think that could mean you'd be useless. Coding skills are useful in a lot of places, especially so when there are few programmers around. In my previous job there was a team doing calibration. They hired a software guy to do some scripting work. After half a year he automated all the calibration work and essentially made 30 engineers jobless. You basically only need somebody to record enough data and let the script auto-calibrate everything. Not every job will have such low-hanging fruit in terms of automation potential, but in places where a software engineer hasn't looked there will usually be a lot of processes that can be automated.