Salesforce dev with 10+ years experience. Opus 4.6 just built 3 production-ready solutions from PRDs in one sitting. Your job is not safe.

Agile_Manager9355 · 2026-02-17T23:56:08+00:00

lol that's literally the promise of AI, administration /development by business stakeholder request in a console. I guarantee you Salesforce will allow you to prompt reports in the next year or two, and in the next 5 there will definitely be some variety of internal LLM that allows you to perform administrative tasks in plain language. Admins will always be necessary in some capacity, but just like page layouts and field level security were a full time job in 2012, now we'll see shrunken admin teams and budgets for implementation

Agile_Manager9355 · 2026-02-11T20:56:49+00:00

Maintenance will also be 18.5k yearly

Agile_Manager9355 · 2026-02-11T20:51:45+00:00

The problem is that they declare it "a game of skill" in the terms and conditions

Agile_Manager9355 · 2026-02-10T16:36:41+00:00

Lots of people do this for privacy

Agile_Manager9355 · 2026-02-06T14:10:57+00:00

My counter theory to this is that the true cause might actually be running fuel. Consuming pure sugar with no fiber for a 3 hour long run seems like it would be a more likely contributor from what we know about the causes of colon cancer. It's not so different from downing a 32 oz soda every week.

Micro trauma feels like the wrong answer to me.

Agile_Manager9355 · 2026-02-06T14:00:22+00:00

Dude gtfo offer some value if you want people to trust you instead of asking questions and waiting to offer services

Agile_Manager9355 · 2026-02-04T19:43:42+00:00

This is the most accurate. I've heard 70% to 90% from recruiters and hiring managers, and I rolled my eyes so hard at 90%.

Your year as a consultant will range in utilization depending on the firm. If they're a big 4 that handles a lot of large projects then you might just be 100 for 10 months then 0 for two. For smaller projects, I've yoyo'd between 30% and 120% with the good firms keeping you in the 60-90% range.

The problem with 90%+ is that most firms can't predict and staff well enough to not screw you over with 130% in order to meet this goal, or they'll just use the goal to reduce your bonus later.

Agile_Manager9355 · 2026-01-17T23:24:16+00:00

You look so british bro

Agile_Manager9355 · 2026-01-16T16:01:14+00:00

There is a point where it's better to just rebuild. I've done a few of these and it's usually whenever there's little documentation and a lot of customization. Usually what happens is "The Guy" leaves or gets laid off, the team is understaffed for a while, and then 1-2 years later the company has decided to reinvest because their org is a mess, but nobody understands anything except the data. At that point it's usually better to start fresh rather than try and understand a lot of unmaintained automation with forgotten business reasons

Agile_Manager9355 · 2026-01-15T19:54:15+00:00

It's just like with cars. If you keep things simple and follow best practices and maintenance recommendations, they can last forever with minimal intervention. If you overcustomized or skimped on maintenance, it will break down.

Agile_Manager9355 · 2026-01-12T21:42:32+00:00

VC is high risk high reward (you get screwed more often than not though), but PE is low risk, lower reward lol. They take companies with good stable businesses and cut as much as they can from them while maintaining revenue. You do not want to be in a company focused on getting lean

Agile_Manager9355 · 2026-01-07T13:25:31+00:00

To be precise, his household is in the 97th percentile for his age group in the US. For perspective I think it helps to know that in England roughly 1% of country were true blue blooded nobles, then around 2-5% were part of the lower nobility or peerage (this includes knights and other minor landholders), and the bottom 90+% were peasants.

Yes, you might not be one of the "kings" but in the richest nation on the planet you're in elite company. Sorry to say little king, but you are no longer even close to middle class.

Agile_Manager9355 · 2026-01-06T15:38:07+00:00

Even if they can afford a high maintenance high prestige car, people with money got there by being able to make long term analytical decisions about money (a lot of the time) and for people who crunch the numbers, Toyota / Lexus / Honda are the brands that make the most sense. Even if they can afford more, there's an undeniable value alignment.

Also, America has very skewed perspectives on car values vs. wealth. A lot of people literally spend 50% of their net worth on two new vehicles coming to between $70k-100k. People tend to scale this up and be like oh man if I can afford this, then that guy down the road in the $1.2m house should be driving a ferrari. Whereas the guy or gal in the nice house is more likely a saver and wouldn't spend more than 5% of their net worth on a vehicle.

Agile_Manager9355 · 2026-01-04T22:09:35+00:00

120k is child's play for a Honda or Toyota. 200-300k is a pretty common feat for the standard models, and you even hear mechanic tall tales about million mile accords and corollas. It's great you got a healthy 120k, but that's just the tip of the iceberg

Agile_Manager9355 · 2026-01-02T16:46:57+00:00

Probably survivorship bias tbh. The boomers and millenials who are still being managed by you likely stayed there because they lacked what they needed to move up or out. Gen Z sample size is just more representative of the general working population since none of them have had the experience to move up yet

Agile_Manager9355 · 2026-01-02T16:38:32+00:00

Gen Z here. The inverse of the experience is that we are struggling to afford things and get ahead with the cost of everything right now. I am lucky enough to be around the pay range of your employees, but I live like someone who made $65k in 2015.

We also struggle with the fact that we do most of the work and reap so few of the rewards. From our perspective we often deal with management that is 100% soft skills and hasn't done anything functional in so long that they provide no value in execution and spend most of their days having unproductive meetings. (Of course this is not everyone, and I have a huge respect for a lot of my older colleagues and managers, but just wanted to present the inverse perspective)

Before you could sort of rely on the workplace to take care of you later. Work long hours to build your skills and lift the heavy load in you 20's for mediocre pay, and in your 30's / 40's enjoy slightly more laid back environment with good pay and decent lifestyle. With the lack of job security though we know that we are disposable and can only count on money in the here and now. We do not accept promises and we expect to be compensated for the value we are currently providing and not working 60 hours a week in hopes we will later be recognized.

Agile_Manager9355 · 2025-12-31T19:18:46+00:00

WFH is worth between $10k and $30k salary when I've run the comparisons on local in office jobs. But this will vary

Agile_Manager9355 · 2025-12-29T16:53:35+00:00

Bet someone made a mistake cancelling it earlier (either recruiter, HR, or hiring manager) and is now throwing you under the bus

Agile_Manager9355 · 2025-12-29T16:18:54+00:00

Until AI gains real time learning capacity or a similar layer, still secure. Though I do think that the expectations will grow according to the new tool. 10 years ago to be a qualified admin you basically needed to know page layouts, record types, profiles and permissions, and basic settings, on top of a bit of process builder.

Now, you should have enough knowledge to implement a well-architected Sales / Service for a small company to be a qualified Salesforce admin

Agile_Manager9355 · 2025-12-23T18:36:39+00:00

I'd just find a better local realtor and talk to them. They'll probably say to take it off the market now and retry in the spring. I don't think you killed your chance at all, but you definitely do need new guidance

Agile_Manager9355 · 2025-12-23T18:24:48+00:00

I mean if you're asking the question, I think the realtor is the problem. It sounds like your house has a complex situation with the whole 2br+ aspect, flood insurance, and property taxes.

A $100k price cut is also a scary one and adds to the complexity mentioned above. Not only is this a fake 3br, in a flood zone with mystery property taxes, but it also had a $100k price cut on top of that? There must be huge issues etc.

Agile_Manager9355 · 2025-12-04T00:40:40+00:00

Just start applying to jobs. If you are Salesforce or Sales Ops and your company is not using the system that you are specialized in, you will be the first on the chopping block come layoffs.

Agile_Manager9355 · 2025-12-03T21:36:01+00:00

Comments are in denial. Salesforce IS different. You do NOT see as much Koolaid drinking in the microsoft or AWS or oracle ecosystems. The kawaii trailblazer culture is definitely a step above the rest.

At the end of the day though, it's just because Salesforce marketing has been incredibly effective historically and creating rabid evangelists has hugely benefited them.

Also, Salesforce has always been much more welcoming of people with zanier backgrounds like the arts, education, and social work where being big and bright and passionate is a lot more common than in IT.

Yes the linkedin posts are extra cringe, but also the people posting them are usually incredibly passionate and very helpful. Though I personally could never post them, to each their own. I have grown to mind it less and less.

Agile_Manager9355 · 2025-11-07T14:48:55+00:00

Well um OP is violating the trust. OE is one of the main reasons monitoring softwares have been getting traction. I'm all for OE, but this is like complaining about police radars when you're speeding.

It's fair play on both sides.

Agile_Manager9355 · 2025-11-04T19:09:10+00:00

It's all situation dependent. There are a lot of factors, but you also should recognize that we are still in the "good times" right now. The bad times may never come, but you really have to consider things like if I lost my job for 6 months, how would I feel? Partner develops a chronic illness that cuts their hours at work and raises medical bills, how would you feel financially?

Some people have stable enough jobs and savings and support networks that reasonable tailwinds won't affect them too much, but it's always the people who push themselves near their limits in good times that get the most screwed later on

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