On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:46:55 +0000, Invisible wrote:

> Neither of these things have saved anybody money. The scripts save my
> time. (Which means I can spent more time surfing the web - but I don't
> have to mention that part.)

This may come as a shock to you, but TIME = MONEY.  Yes, it's true.

You say they pay you 14K per year.  If we break that down into 40 hour 
weeks, 52 weeks per year, that works out to a certain hourly rate you're 
paid.

Now, if you write a script that saves you an hour a day twice a week, 
that's 2 hours per week, 104 hours per year.  Multiply by your hourly 
wage, and you get a dollar figure.  That's money saved.

A prospective employer doesn't need to know how you use the time you've 
saved.  They need to know that you can write scripts that save the 
company money and effort.

I spend some of my time each day doing data entry for an exam 
registration system (my job changed a couple months ago, and earlier this 
month, I moved to a completely different role).  I'm looking to automate 
that process.  It takes me maybe an hour or two every couple of days to 
do what I have to do with the data entry portion of it.  If I can get it 
automated, that saves the company several thousand dollars per year in 
data entry expenses, and I can take on other more interesting tasks that 
might otherwise not get done.

You do a lot of math - so DO THE MATHS.

Jim

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