I should also say that I had an acquaintance that did this. He was working for a small local ISP (I think; might have been hosting, the kind of thing where they give you an FTP server and the ability to shoot everyone else on the shared server in the foot with PHP) and he literally turned his entire job into a couple of scripts and a big spreadsheet. He then just ran them a couple of times a week and called it a day. I don't know exactly what all he did, some sort of server management things and providing stats to management, but nobody else knew how to do it so he provided the non-technical management who didn't understand their own small company with value and the only work he had to do was run some scripts. It can be done.