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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…
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…
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…
Certs are worth getting. I have 12, charge $100 hr as a contractor, and have only been doing it for 5 years. No degree. I get people reaching out to me daily for work. I see it as a long term career. Salesforce has the tallest building in SF. They own Heroku. Salesforce is not fun to work with. What is fun for me is being in demand making a ton of money.
Fun comes in milestones and accomplishing things that leave others wondering how you pulled it off.
The start may be getting good at the tool, but which of the more valuable?
1 - I can help you properly set up Salesforce to track your Sales team.
2 - I can help you increase Sales by 20% by optimizing your Sales funnel and putting your best people on the largest deals. We will use Salesforce to do this.
#1 charges hourly in comp with low cost locations. #2 gets equity.
Yes. I've been working in Salesforce Commerce Cloud for about 8 years (it was Demandware back then[0]), been a certified Commerce Cloud Developer the whole time, and got an Architect certification in December. I'm working for a support/integration partner agency, as opposed to a merchant. So instead of working on one thing everyday, I'm assigned to a handful of clients, whose storefronts are vaguely similar.
There's a stock storefront that new ones are built from, so most storefronts work the same, the only differences being external integrations like payment and order processing. It ends up being a narrow problem space that I've enjoyed working in, instead of a customized sky's-the-limit line of business app.
[0] https://www.salesforce.com/news/press-releases/2016/07/11/sa...
Second, if you want to love doing work with Salesforce or any other CRM, you have to really like business processes, otherwise, it will feel like boring CRUD work... So much of day-to-day for sales and customer success is spent working with really awful software (and lots of great software, badly configured), with lots of double data entry and copy-pasta going on. If you can help integrate, automate and build decent UIs, you are going to do very well.
Finally, when you become an expert on enterprise software three things will create opportunity: new features to implement/customize, new customers to migrate and price sensitivity. With Salesforce, even though they are a leader both situations are great for a consultant. Salesforce customers are also willing to spend money, and aren't as price sensitive (this is a good thing) as users of many other CRMs are.
You are good probably for your whole career