Automation makes your life easy! I always wanted to learn it so that I can automate the boring tasks.
Python is a good language to start learning automation, but you don't need to be a programmer to automate
tasks.
I used to make automated flows on an android application called "Automate", to do some cool tasks like turning off
Wi-Fi automatically when I leave home, etc.
I started writing scripts which use windows commands to automate small tasks like
flushing dns cache, opening specific repos in git bash, checking hash value for files, etc.
My internship at Irdeto was also on automation. I had to create scripts to automate test cases for a STB box,
using an application called Witbe.
Writing automation scripts will need critical and creative thinking. Sometimes you'll face problems which no-one
ever faced before, where you'll have to think out of the box.
There are various ways to automate things in linux by using crontab, editing the .bashrc/.zshrc file etc.
I am currently working on an automated script to securely erase, and extract binary dumps for different types of
storage devices.