• UnrepentantAlgebra@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    In a perfect world you could get paid to automate stuff with AHK. I wonder if you could market yourself as an AHK consultant where you basically shadow someone’s job for a week and then start figuring out how to automate the tedious stuff.

    Personally I like the functionality of AHK but I can’t stand the syntax compared to Python and C. I start with such great plans of what I want to automate but get sick of fighting with the language after about an hour and settle for something simple.

    • MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip
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      4 hours ago

      I actually started thinking about exactly this minutes later, and have been VERY excited about trying it. I’ve been unemployed for awhile now, not by choice, and already have diagnosed depression going back years before. Job market stinks and I’m bad at getting hired. BUT this idea actually excites me, in a way I haven’t felt in WAY too long.

      I plan to start working on some basic function libraries for myself, rebuilding some things from that old job, and I’ll also be contacting local businesses for a start. The old job was for a small business, so I have a decent feel for how to fit it into places.