Agreed, that is a very important skill. But it's not always possible to avoid the grunt work ... even running your own business, someone still has to take out

Agreed, that is a very important skill. But it's not always possible to avoid the grunt work ... even running your own business, someone still has to take out the trash (metaphorically), and the buck stops with you. I've run into this a lot doing data analysis. Sometimes it takes 20-30 minutes to manually clean up the data (or more often, if it's structured enough, write a script to do it), but other people often overestimate the amount of work required, and decide that the grunt work isn't worth it. But it lets me make better conclusions from the data, so it's usually worth the effort.