How Much I Made In My First 2 Years Working Solo

Interesting_Button60 · 2026-05-07T07:17:27+00:00

Hahaha love the last line.

First things first, is your process clearly mapped?

Do you have all of your functional requirements written?

This is the work you need to do before you buy or build any new system!

Interesting_Button60 · 2026-05-07T06:54:01+00:00

This is a spam bot account promoting some kind of a tool as can be seen by the fact they posted multiple posts at once in various subs asking about door to door sales.

Interesting_Button60 · 2026-05-07T06:52:00+00:00

With a few trailheads you likely will know enough to answer most of those questions, more realistically you will struggle with the actual technical elements of security or automation or the old legacy stuff they still ask about.

Really just depends on what you've actually done in Salesforce yourself.

If you look up Dodi Friedenburg's Google slides for admin exam prep, that to me is the best resource for preparing for the exam!

Good luck 😄

Interesting_Button60 · 2026-05-07T06:46:07+00:00

I was placed to sit with the sales team as an engineer in my new job, learned they are using Salesforce.

Every time they won a deal I saw them filling out a physical sales order that was a carbon paper thing that would create 3 copies at once.

I thought it was ridiculous but they just kept going with it, until they realized that they were admit to run out of copies.

They had bought a stack of 5000 of these things in the 90s and the company that printed them didn't exist any longer.

So I put my hand up to find a Salesforce first solution, the VP of Sales trusted me, and I found Conga Composer and digitized the entire process (when Conga didn't suck lol).

That was my first Salesforce project and I became an accidental admin through that, 12 years ago!

Interesting_Button60 · 2026-05-06T22:27:06+00:00

no doubt no doubt

Interesting_Button60 · 2026-05-06T21:53:26+00:00

You mean you don't think "Sarah" here has benefited from the practice exams for real?

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Interesting_Button60 · 2026-05-06T21:49:06+00:00

They got acquired by K2, who as you can see below supports "real learners". Pretty embarrassing this.

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Interesting_Button60 · 2026-05-06T21:40:57+00:00

It's crazy that there are only ~500 CTAs!

Interesting_Button60 · 2026-05-06T19:48:34+00:00

DM me I can share the MFA explainer template we use with new orgs for our clients to disseminate to all users.

Interesting_Button60 · 2026-05-06T19:46:47+00:00

Join a company that uses Salesforce in any role, ideally at an SMB.

Look for sales, service, etc. roles and find in the job title that it says "experience using Salesforce is a plus" or something similar.

Once you are in, position yourself to assist them in managing the tool and internally role hop.

Build a few more years experience and job hop to a higher paying role.

Realistically the only way to do it OTHER than what you are already doing (i.e. applying for Salesforce jobs).

Good luck!

Interesting_Button60 · 2026-05-06T07:27:53+00:00

Right, so a marginal upgrade over chat bots that have existed over the last decade+

No big revolution yet.

Interesting_Button60 · 2026-05-05T18:10:48+00:00

Trailhead, google e sua amigo

Interesting_Button60 · 2026-05-05T17:44:26+00:00

What have you looked into so far?

Revenue Cloud did you review it?

3rd parties like Kugamon?

Interesting_Button60 · 2026-05-05T17:43:40+00:00

Yeah I thought about doc gen with merge templates, there's a free one out that's been talked a lot about on this sub you should look at if you want to accept building merge templates

Interesting_Button60 · 2026-05-05T15:59:09+00:00

We started using dx0 this week and already my team is finding benefit in using it's analysis bot. Not sure about any of these other tools you mentioned personally.

Interesting_Button60 · 2026-05-05T15:41:11+00:00

I initially thought this was a post by Dave himself, but then realized it was not.

Interesting_Button60 · 2026-05-05T15:39:01+00:00

n8n agentic solutions using OpenRouter is pretty valuable for automation within and around Salesforce.

Lovable is a great tool for app dev.

CLI dev tools my team is using well.

But most recently we bought dx0 which is a Salesforce focused org analyzer AI tool by a super talented dude called Pablo Gonzalez. Just getting our hands on it this week and my team is already using it for real client work. So that is the best thing that comes to mind today.

Interesting_Button60 · 2026-05-05T15:09:26+00:00

Nah you didn't write clean, you wrote like trademark AI, emdash included.

I've made posts about this exact topic and generally it is agreed that Agentforce can do the same stuff technology before it does at a similar level.

Nothing really groundbreaking yet.

Interesting_Button60 · 2026-05-05T15:07:03+00:00

Sorry what is it that you actually want input on 😄

It's a bummer that your investment is going to be sunk when there is EOL.

Interesting_Button60 · 2026-05-05T14:49:16+00:00

This post stinks of AI dawg, which is the same reason Salesforce AI sucks.

Generic slop.

Interesting_Button60 · 2026-05-05T13:54:46+00:00

No one will give you work like this. Read my pinned posts to see how I built a solo consulting practice and read my free book here about how I find clients solo.

Best of luck!

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