I can tell by the way that you think that you’re a lawyer. We all know that lawyers bill by the hour even though only if it takes him two minutes to do something like fill a template legal form with a clients information.
nope, WMarshal, I’m seriously not a lawyer but I did stay at a Holiday Inn once and I have been accused more than once of being articulate - for a girl. I’ve lived a multifaceted and interesting life, from a barnyard to angels 30 and back to the barn. Climbing ladders, grabbing brass rings, running the show, shattering ceilings out of necessity or just for the sheer fun of it all, life experience teaches perspective. And possessing perspective is one of the greatest gifts of life.
A fair share of lawyers (like any other profession) have book sense but no horse sense. But when you get a good one, just like a good doctor, or mechanic, or boss, or vet, he or she is worth their weight in gold. Try to find a good one —and keep them on your Christmas card list. For me, it’s been worth that extra 14 minutes in billing. Every time.
All good developers do automation scripts for any number of repetitive tasks.
The people who don’t know this are exactly the micromanagers that keep companies back in the COBOL and stone age script languages. The Stay In Your Lane types.
I have any number of stories from personal experience.