The opportunities to do this are widespread. On the business side, I've worked with both non-technical and technical (but non-developer) people (in multiple orgs) manually doing things like comparing data in files, joining columnar data together in word processors, and copy and pasting numbers into a spreadsheet to do calculations - and spending hours of their day on it. After getting sick of it, they would approach me and ask if there was any way I could think of to help them speed the process up. The answer was often extremely simple, and wound up completely removing them from the process except for seeing the output. They were absolutely thrilled, since they were able to focus on their actual jobs instead of messing around with a thousand line spreadsheets. Extremely gratifying to be able to do that.

Even though so much has been automated (by dint of simply using systems that have useful 'inherent' automation) over the past 15 years, there's still to much fruit out there to picked like this. It's also interesting to note how once a non-developer needs to color outside the lines of a system they are working with when dealing with data processing, they may go right to the manual process since they don't have a way to extend a system themselves. This presents opportunities to help even as our systems get more sophisticated (or just more complicated. Perhaps especially as they get more complicated, since the path of least resistance may be "forget this incredibly convoluted junk! I'll just do it by hand!", which can be a completely rational course of action for them.)