DON'T LEARN SALESFORCE!!

Average Salesforce salaries are $150,000 a year - but that doesn’t mean you should learn Salesforce and join this industry. Here are six reasons why you should NOT learn Salesforce.

0:00 Don't learn Salesforce
1:09 1. Competition
1:42 2. Coding
2:42 3. You hate Excel
3:34 4. You need the manual
4:12 5. People
4:40 6. Ambition
5:12 Why I love Salesforce
6:00 My recommendation

[memmo]

Thanks for reducing my competition! Ready to goooo

[Hamyhamster]

I actually love excel. Because of saleforce I am now intermediate excel user. 3 years ago, I was just a basic beginner lol.

[gusto]

Don’t know squat about SF, but really want to learn. Your videos are encouraging and I love the way you explain things in an entertaining way. 👏🏼

[shawn]

I'm dead hopefully I scared off enough people to remove your competition. I appreciate it greatly!

[patrickj.trevenen]

It’s too late for me David, I jumped in the pool 2 years ago and still love SF.

[soniyamulchandani]

After college. I thought I will somehow love coding and stuff. Got my first job at an MNC, and got a Salesforce project. It's been 2 years and 4 certifications since then. But still just getting through it. And Hating everyday on the job. Wish I saw this video a couple years ahead! But this info was on point!!

[chatoanil]

Now Salesforce is totally into Einstein, lot of Data Scientist out there using salesforce.. so i guess, salesforce already answered your question on why they want us to learn salesforce .. :)

[Kevin-cczj]

David, first THANK YOU, for an entertaining and educational video presentation. This is my 1st ever comment on a video - tells you how much of an impact you make. As a military vet that did a little DoD IT, I am just now starting to dig into a possible future in the Salesforce community via the Hire our Heroes program. I have been pondering on pursuing Salesforce for over a week, the way you broke it down so simply was EXACTLY what I needed to hear. Side note: I also enjoyed your career personality test, gave me even more to think about. =)

[ocnwspr]

Thank you for posting the test. I got equal reds and blues. After 24 years in one position it's hard to choose which direction to move in. I wish all people who talk about their profession were as succinct and funny as you. I look forward to hearing more of your straight forward, chuckle worthy moments!

[spusuluri]

David. In my view, those were the good old days in 2010 where we used to hire Admins and Devs with 80-100k by knowing few workflow rules and some apex triggers, but now we are ready to pay 150+ but need someone knowing everything as we don't want someone to write tons of workflows and bunch of process builder just bcz they only know admin work and they can exploit the features which will make things messy. My point to new engineers is make use of Trailhead and try to learn all alternatives when you enter into job market: Low-level knowledge: Workflows, Formula, Rollups, Process builders, Flows, Triggers, Queuable, Batchable, Schedulable, Aura and High Level - LWC, Integrations, CPQ/Billing, Territories, OAuth, Handling large data, most importantly which one to use when..and again everything is in Trailhead, thus hit the bulls eye. Again congrats to the awesome work you are doing by giving back knowledge to the community!!

[frederikwitte]

I would also add high stress to this list. I am a certified System / Application architect and not only do you need to stay on top of all the updates and new things going on, customers and projects are very demanding. So you need to learn new things 24/7 and at the same time be super focused every minute you work, as a bug in production can cost a lot of money.

[FabulousMe]

David I'm so excited after watching this. First you made me realize that I should skip the admin certification and dive into the Developer Certification. I love excel and I am use to the grind. Thank you for giving this great insight.

[thisissam]

Can you do a mock junior Salesforce developer interview, especially similar to the ones at Google, it will surely help a lot of people

[OzoneMe]

Being honest helps so many not waste their valuable time!!! 👍👍👍

[millertime]

I actually like Excel. I know most developers crap on it but it has its uses. For me, it's faster and easier to ship than some alternatives like Jupyter notebooks or Python executable.

[scottkirven]

I hated this video in the first 1 minute and LOVED it after the next 5. I am knee deep into re"learning" Salesforce (almost an oxymoron in a way) after being away from it for just a bit and took the chance of watching this viewpoint. David's points are thoughtful and made me full of thoughts about what I am doing, why I am doing it, etc. I think this was the first comment I ever put on a YouTube video so that tells you something :) Thanks David

[ellanesiewlal]

Loved this video and it seems I am a mix of red and blues after only being in the salesforce world for just over 1 year

[bodhisattva-yd]

I took saleforce personality test and my result is: 50% dev 50% admin. Now I am confused :) By the way, you have great channel! You have inspired me to give saleforce a try in my mid 30.

[Will-ifwp]

Am I weird that I work in Salesforce everyday and I still love learning more? The only bad thing is we are highly customized, so I don’t get to use a lot of the out of the box Salesforce.

[kattt]

I'm currently working as a Salesforce Support and I hate every single minute of it. I work 10hrs a day from 10pm to 8am, and just earlier I worked from 10pm to 10am. I would be so much happier if it was a day shift.