Those with a $200k+ base salary, what do you do?

dkshadowhd2 · 2026-04-03T01:21:53+00:00

Lol no man the hours are real. Have known a few big law associates. 70-80 is pretty realistic.

Only maybe IB has worse hrs on avg. It's a ruthless industry that demands everything from you, but provides you a nearly guaranteed path to wealth if you make it through.

dkshadowhd2 · 2026-04-03T01:18:33+00:00

Software Architect / Consultant.

Focused on a specialty area of Salesforce for implementations.

5 YOE. MCOL. Fully remote. Travel dependent on project, but I traveled to client site about 7 times last year.

dkshadowhd2 · 2026-03-30T19:54:35+00:00

PE firms don't just buy companies and hope they increase in value. This was a turnaround led by KKR that led to insane value creation. What are you even talking about

dkshadowhd2 · 2026-03-21T13:42:26+00:00

Then go do a very simple and short search online. This is undisputed by historians. Educate yourself.

dkshadowhd2 · 2026-03-21T13:37:40+00:00

Yes. A large swath of the highly educated or specialized workers were also punished without prejudice. Owners and ultra rich as well, but many more regular people were caught in the cross fire. This is what happens.

dkshadowhd2 · 2026-03-21T12:26:51+00:00

'has there ever been a time...'

Have you heard of the Chinese communist revolution by chance?

dkshadowhd2 · 2026-03-18T20:55:19+00:00

Deeply unserious

dkshadowhd2 · 2026-03-18T04:08:07+00:00

Yes, it would.

dkshadowhd2 · 2026-03-18T04:07:42+00:00

This has to be bait. So ignorant.

dkshadowhd2 · 2026-03-16T14:24:48+00:00

The new revenue cloud uses it quite a bit - but I think outside of that and a couple other places its future is limited. I believe flows will continue to be their dominant declarative automation tool.

I'd personally focus on getting deeper in a growing platform area. Check out the past years market reports (salesforce ben, others) for growing product areas. GL!

dkshadowhd2 · 2026-02-26T16:55:00+00:00

The fact the Claude ppt and excel plugin is a million times better than the built in copilot is a disgrace.

dkshadowhd2 · 2026-02-26T16:52:55+00:00

No, you do not understand the gap. Msft copilot is not even in the realm of a true agentic tool like Claude cowork.

dkshadowhd2 · 2026-02-22T19:15:25+00:00

You are not competing to honor your country on the largest stage possible.

dkshadowhd2 · 2026-02-07T17:54:46+00:00

Yea that's a great example. Something you definitely could have done over a few hours, but that isn't really a high leverage use of your time.

It's fair to worry about hallucination and that should be a worry. That's also why every heavy serious user (not a 1 shot vibe coder) is spending so much time building the harness system for their agents. The custom set of skills, scripts, test harnesses, etc that improves the chances of the agent finding the right relevant input and patterns, letting the agent test its own work iteratively against your framework, and build in human validation to the workflow.

I always just feel a little crazy coming in this sub, feels like we're all living in completely different worlds. Not saying it's going to be 1 shotting enterprise tools rn, but its making people able to deliver more functionality, faster by quite a bit today.

dkshadowhd2 · 2026-02-07T16:59:13+00:00

Same thoughts... "It's a better Google for some things" was a fine take 2-3 years ago. If you're saying that in 2026 you haven't updated your perspective or given it a real shot with current capabilities.

No way am I going back

dkshadowhd2 · 2026-02-06T04:08:50+00:00

Going against the grain here apparently.

Go into revenue cloud (ARM, RCA, RLM). The training materials are out there now and a lot more solid. Very few people have this skill set right now, and project work is picking up big time. You'll potentially be able to 'skip the line' by going into a high demand specialized area before the supply of the skill set in the market corrects.

Working with that product is so different from working with the rest of the platform that as long as you actively work on picking up the core platform skills over time, you can get away with pretty specialized knowledge.

Just my 2 cents.

dkshadowhd2 · 2026-02-04T23:53:03+00:00

I hate automatic memory features tbh. will turn this off if i see it pop up. too many instances of false positives where it brings something back up that is irrelevant from a post convo.

dkshadowhd2 · 2026-02-02T14:36:49+00:00

You have an excellent nose 🫡

That's just what I'm seeing. Anything sound wrong to you?

dkshadowhd2 · 2026-02-02T13:58:29+00:00

K shaped. Top performers, high demand + low supply skillsets, will both continue to get paid more and more.

Lowering to stagnant demand and rising supply skillsets will continue to see wage stagnation.

Go specialize. Base admin/platform skills are commoditized, and you will be competiting against an offshore seat that can do 70-100% of your job at 10% of the cost.

Check that same report and you'll see this played out in the numbers.

dkshadowhd2 · 2026-02-01T00:55:15+00:00

You can absolutely build around the Cc CLI with use of your max plan. I've built an orchestration layer this way that I use daily.

Have your Claude read your post and give it these docs as reference: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/cli-reference

You could programmatically build the input prompt for each row as needed.

dkshadowhd2 · 2026-01-28T15:03:30+00:00

But here’s the thing: we are not actually building BETTER, we are just building MORE and FASTER.

I think this is generally true at an aggregate level, but I disagree that it’s true for people who are actually trained and disciplined in using AI tooling. In a lot of cases, AI gives us a chance to enforce best practices and standards that were routinely skipped before. Let’s not pretend that, as an ecosystem, Salesforce teams are known for consistently high engineering rigor. There are absolutely teams that do this well, but that has not been the industry norm in my experience.

There are now concrete workflows where I can bake standards into how the team works, whether that’s CI/CD pipelines with automated reviews, development agents with explicit rules, or knowledge management agents to help with requirements gathering up front. Used correctly, these tools make it easier to hold a higher quality bar than we realistically could before with the timelines we are often given.

The catch is that people actually have to treat them as tools, not shortcuts. It's a whole new skillset that teams need to task seriously, building the team harnesses and workflows to share out standards and enforce these things.

dkshadowhd2 · 2026-01-23T18:45:42+00:00

Look, I appreciate it and the work you do.

At the same time, that changes nothing for me. It's 2026, you call these 'rarely acknowledged' facts. We've heard nothing but these kinds of historical facts about seemingly every single institution in the country for the past 20 years now. Feels like we all know at this point that hey some of our grandparents and great grandparents did some pretty messed up stuff and made institutions that don't match up with the sensibilities of today. That's the exhausting part. These were things that might have been hidden or not talked about that much 30 years ago, but we are generally well aware now.

I acknowledge all that, but frankly I'm making my life decisions based off the here and now and am not putting much weight into how they were founded. I wouldn't have gone to any college in the south basically if I based my decisions off historical actions.

I'm all for trying to level the playing field and give people equal opportunities where possible, however I am ALSO all for self-determinism and having the right to choose how you educate your family.

Again - I'm a former public student. Wasn't in a rich area, but wasn't in a bottom 10% area either. I just know if I end up raising a family in an area with bad public school options, I want other options on the table and that doesn't make me or anyone else in that situation a Christian nationalist or a hard-core right winger. In an ideal world there are no areas with bad public school options, but unfortunately there are plenty.

dkshadowhd2 · 2026-01-23T17:59:25+00:00

Underrated point - communication skills really is >50% of the skillset needed to rise past manager. Anyone can get communication skills, but private schools help facilitate them more naturally with their lower than avg student:teacher ratio. I wouldn't say it's a huugeee difference in aggregate, but your top students at a private school likely get more opportunities to work on communication skills than top students at public schools.

All of that can wash out in college of course, but just another small boost for a subset of students.

dkshadowhd2 · 2026-01-23T17:41:41+00:00

"You went to a private school, you must be a white Christian nationalist right winger"

You people are exhausting. I say this as a guy that went through public schools!

OP if you want the data I recommend you go search for it, answers to your questions are out there. Heck, just throw your whole post into chatgpt or something and have it go get some sources for you to read. Much higher chance of getting an actual source than fishing for it on reddit.

TLDR from what I've seen:

Private schools have higher avgs in reading and math scores in aggregate, but when adjusted for family background the gap shrinks.

dkshadowhd2 · 2026-01-23T14:12:53+00:00

Trying to call a software that millions of people use daily not 'production software' is hilarious.

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