> And I hate it enough to want to do a quality job of it and automate as much of it as possible so I can do something more interesting with my time instead.
How does this work in a full time job where you hate what you are doing? When you automate something, you're not freeing up time to do whatever you want. You're just freeing up time to do more of what you don't like, isn't it?
Only if you make the automation public. Plenty of data input guys didn't mention they automated their job and raked in a full FTE working a few hours a week.
Doesn't work as well these days since most knowledge gets shared and a lot of devs are too eager to reveal their cards.