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I am the COO of Salesforce. Two of the top ten jobs on Indeed are Salesforce Admin and Salesforce Developer, and the jobs are distributed around the world. We have a ton of stories of folks transitioning into the ecosystem and developing an extremely successful career. Notably, our certifications are freely available at https://www.trailhead.com/ . You can get started, learn, and get credentials for free. It is a gre…
Yes: you can make solid money as a salesforce admin/developer, especially if you are good at working with non-technical stakeholders. Personally, I think that working with salesforce is the worst of CRUD development combined with the worst of SaaS platforms. If you want fun work, I would not recommend Salesforce.
It's also somewhat risky to focus your whole career on learning a product that a single company makes. In 10 or 20 years, it may be depreciated. There are plenty of Crystal Reports professionals who found that their skills didn't transfer as the software declined.
It takes the professional to do that skills mapping.
Reporting systems are reporting systems for the most part. In the case of Crystal Reports, it was acquired by SAP and still pretty heavily in use in businesses.
But if you are sick of doing web dev because of "not doing anything interesting/fun" I would say there's a great chance you'll be sick really quick - most of the SaaS platform's developer experience are just horrifying.
I am the COO of Salesforce. Two of the top ten jobs on Indeed are Salesforce Admin and Salesforce Developer, and the jobs are distributed around the world. We have a ton of stories of folks transitioning into the ecosystem and developing an extremely successful career. Notably, our certifications are freely available at https://www.trailhead.com/ . You can get started, learn, and get credentials for free. It is a gre…
Off topic, but really excited to intern with you this summer :)
Yes: you can make solid money as a salesforce admin/developer, especially if you are good at working with non-technical stakeholders. Personally, I think that working with salesforce is the worst of CRUD development combined with the worst of SaaS platforms. If you want fun work, I would not recommend Salesforce.
Small, meaningful efforts in such cases can vastly improve the actual quality of life of so many people.
The dream of tech working for people instead of people working for tech should include the majority, not a technical minority, no?
The field of web dev is so vast and nebulous, the idea that you can't learn anything new or that you've reached a permanent plateau in your career doesn't add up. Also, Salesforce development is a specialized field. What you're basically saying is that in the entire, vast field of web development you can learn anything new or find anything interesting to do, so you want to move into something much more specialized/na…
That skillet really doesn’t seem to go out of date or demand.
Spending a few years in any ecosystem and applying oneself will almost always lead one to the next thing.
Remember that at any time: - Salesforce could announce a massive change in priorities. - Salesforce could be bought by a competitor. - Salesforce could be [more slowly] replaced by a competitor. The odds of any of these things happening in the next year are probably quite low. The odds of something like this happening in the next ten years is pretty high. I can't speak to whether the work is interesting or not -- I w…
Another example is Shopify, folks want help with it in a Wordpress, but more approachable audience.