I always wanted to be a programmer, but have never wanted a programming job. Just want to replace myself silently in a company.
God, when I see people mindlessly scrolling through 3 different excel sheets, copy/pasting data from one to the other, and punching buttons on a calculator for some 3000 rows between all the sheets. I can't help but to wish I had their job. Seriously, how has she not been replaced? Even without a DB, they could replace her with a VBScript or excel function.
Have also been looking into robotics, but fear that someone might bump into me and notice I am suddenly made of plastic/metal. Which is why most non-remote jobs have been ruled out. Computer jobs I can still look busy for. Just program it to do the work at human pace, and have a motion sensor pause it whenever someone comes nearby.
Unfortunately, I don't know how to search for those types of jobs, and don't have the qualifications to take over my friend's job (though I replaced a good deal of their workload already).