Visual Basic sucks anyway.
That's the problem right there.
Why don't you tell the developers at Microsoft that?
Because they wouldn't listen to me, no matter how many voiceless 18 year old uni students I got together?
vba isnt too hard. you can find code for what you need to do on google and then adapt it to your needs.
Actually, minimum wage is $8 here. My friend says they'll give full time. $8 per hour x say 35 hrs a week x about 60 weeks is almost $17k. After taxes, that's significantly less, but still pretty fucking good. My family doesn't have trouble paying for McGill, actually. I'm taking the year off mostly to take a year off; the working is incidental.