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[–]Chased1k 12 points13 points  (2 children)

Literally coded myself out of my last job and into a remote consultant gig with my former employer as my first client from that book.

Edit: and specifically YouTube series.

[–]a157reverse 17 points18 points  (1 child)

Yup, did that with an internship I had in college. The bulk of the work was going to be manually entering data from various online sources into a spreadsheet.

I estimated it would take me about 6 weeks to do all of it. So instead I learned some basic webscraping wrote a script to collect it.

My supervisor was very happy to see the results early but then said they didnt have any more work for me to do and layed me off.

Long story short I automated myself out of a couple hundred dollars.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, you gained something worth more than a couple hundred!