Finding internal resources to fix the tool when things change is very prescient. Growing up, my mom performed a job where she would essentially copy car crash

Finding internal resources to fix the tool when things change is very prescient. Growing up, my mom performed a job where she would essentially copy car crash data from one system into another, row by row. As a teenager learning to program, it was obvious to me this could be easily automated. She (perhaps rightfully) didn't want to run anything I cooked up on her company's computer! A year or so later she was laid off a long with many others in the company performing similar roles. And this is the problem, isn't it? Once the job is automated, the analyst is no longer necessary. You really need to "learn to fish."