On a similar note, the joy of automating stuff is amazing. My previous non-software job was with an engineering company and I ended up having to do stuff like

On a similar note, the joy of automating stuff is amazing. My previous non-software job was with an engineering company and I ended up having to do stuff like manually typing values from a PDF report into an excel file. I got so annoyed with doing this task that one day I rage-coded a parser in python that took in raw PDF data and outputted a CSV file. The first useful thing you ever code is really motivating.