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At the first internship I had in the late 90's, part of my job was taking these text files full of data and creating these huge excel reports with them. It was something that would take a few hours to do because of how much data there was. I taught myself VBA and wrote up this little program where you just upload the file and it spit out the report in about a minute. I luckily had a boss who saw the potential in that and while I wasn't promoted, I was just an intern after all, at the end of the summer, I was the only intern the company kept. And they moved me all around the company to different departments and I learned a ton and it was a great experience. I did automate a few departments to the point where people who were doing full time work had their work cut down to couple of hours a day at most. I finally left when my friends who started doing internships at these "internet" companies were getting paid more than I was and I had asked for a raise and didn't get it.