@Matt: Best wishes, programming will empower you in many ways - you will look back at your 'average user' days and wonder how you ever got along.
You learn a lot about the fundamentals of computers and software that the average user will never learn that is immensely useful.
There is also quite a bit of satisfaction to be gained from writing a script or set of scripts that automate something people end up doing by hand usually. Need to process an email and stick certain data into a database? Instead of manually copy/pasting that data from the email into an Access database, you could write a Python script that would grab the email for you off the server and process it based on it's sender address - automatically parse the text document extracting the data and inserting it into a SQLite, XML, CSV, MySQL database automatically for you...
Then there is writing software - which is fun on many levels... :-)
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