Fml. I was merely trying to be a problem solver as I despise manual, time-consuming, soul-sucking tasks. Not to mention overall stagnation/lack of resourcefulness. But now I can’t help but feeling like I’ve fucked myself.

I’ve essentially brute forced my way through a few automation projects out of shear stubbornness and hyper fixation. They were really well received and have saved my colleagues hours with the solutions, as the story goes.

I only started dabbling with power query a few months ago, and now they are asking me to host a full-on lunch and learn to teach my team. Not to mention, some of the projects I worked on were in VBA, not even power query. WTF?

I don’t think they appreciate that 1. I used the information that is available to ALL of us to create these tools without anyone teaching me (besides ChatGPT lol), and 2. I am still learning myself and it’s not a simple skill that I can train the team on in an hour.

While I’m always open to commiseration, my question is:

How can I leverage this situation as best as possible while also managing expectations and setting some sort of boundary for my own work/time?