Most of the work I do requires that I be in the field, busy with my hands. If these hands aren't completing project tasks, then I'm probably not making any money, with few exceptions. One of those exceptions is when I hire help, but that can easily be a couple thousand dollars in labor costs a week - money i would much rather save (or spend on one of my various eccentric hobbies 🛻.

The trade off with hiring labor is that I can potentially complete more projects per month then I could on my own. That means more money!

What I can't hire out for, however, is the daily client meetings and the associated project tracking and reports crafting. I spend hours sometimes exporting spreadsheet data from our project management software and importing, formatting, sorting and re-sorting that data into something that the client / subcontractor / 3rd party / Random engineer from a local Internet provider / can understand and use to complete whatever it is I need from them in a timely manner.

or, well....that's how I Used to do it

now I just copy and paste the source data (straight from our software) into my very own Google Sheets "Rube Goldberg Machine". Out comes all the various reports I might or might not need. all done. To accomplish this I use a combination of formulas and Google Apps scripts. all of it fully customizable via a single sheet.

No, I'm not selling a class, or pushing my new book. I'm just a Tradesman with too much nerd for my own health. it's what I do. JavaScript is my leisure activity and spreadsheets are my entertainment.

(Not toooo nerdy....I do a lot of really cool stuff too )