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Hold up...
Spreadsheet world championship?
You wanna get rich? Learn to fix other people’s spreadsheets.
Seriously.
Setting up a couple of spreadsheets at my job has basically been the entire grounds for me receiving bonuses last year, and it looks to be the same this year too. I don't even know that much, I just Google "excel xlookup" or whatever half the time, but people think it's black magic.
My main one last year turned a 30 minute daily task into something it do once a week in about 10 minutes on a busy week, and just print off the daily sheet each night to post. This year, I just added drop-down menus and some conditional checks to someone else's sheet.
I'm just amazed nobody else did this before, because I was sick of doing the old way everyday after my first week.
Good shit identifying something that could be automated! Seems like it's already paying off, and it's such an under utilized skill I'm sure you'll continue to be awarded for it. It's almost entirely why software engineers get paid so damn much.
Almost everything we do is with the goal of automating something, with the whole product often being some helpful automations for people's lives. The company I work for pulled a billion dollars in revenue and we just automate healthcare data ingress and egress.
Edit: Now that I think about it, it might be worth your time to learn some basic Python. Dead simple language but incredibly powerful.