Develop desktop applications for MS Office. "Wouldn't it be great if". These are the types of applications I write. Useful, and sometimes personal applications, that provide pivotal functionality in the vacuum where your company's software did not. For example, if you find yourself exporting information from some application to Excel just because the data isn't in a format that is useful, I write the application to automate it in either Excel or Access. Sometimes it's just a smaller task such as processing your pesky inbox. I would write something for example to automatically tag inbound outlook messages. These days almost anything can be automated .