She works in IT. Her main tool is Salesforce. Some of the clients she’s mentioned are universally known. Volkswagen and IKEA are two I remember.
I don’t know what she does exactly. But, to be fair, she doesn’t know what I do either, cause I have a Film & TV degree and our latest argument was about her insisting that I use that degree to “become an influencer, because influencers make money”. That conversation would have been hilarious if I wasn’t part of it. Like listening to a tween tell you what she wants to be when she grows up…
according to a google search first page intermediate level salesforce admin earns €50-60k per year which is roughly the average salary for Amsterdam for example.
I meant it not in terms of pay but in terms of personality. There’s a few too many Salesforce admins with personalities like what SethTaylor@lemmy.world described
So the thing with Salesforce Admins, is its a sub-career within IT that requires minimal technical knowledge to be good at, plus by the nature of the job you end up working with vendor support, so if you’re really not good at your job you can simply pass everything to the vendor to do and just get paid to manage the projects and pass them between the business and the vendor.
I worked with a Salesforce admin who did exactly this and he collected a crazy salary for about a year while his boss tried to convince his boss’s boss to fire him for not being able to demonstrate the skills that his resume implied. I also later learned that he was also working at his brother’s Salesforce consulting firm at the same time, so extremely unprofessional and a clear conflict of interest.
Anyways, my point is, I’m not at all surprised that your sister who sounds like they’re kinda disconnected from reality works as a Salesforce admin. That’s just the aura that some Salesforce admins give off!
My sister’s husband is a software developer and frequently helps her with the technical aspects of her job. She has a degree in sociology. All she did to get her first job was a 6-month course or something like that. I guess now I understand how she was able to even make the switch in the first place.
Oh, and, coincidentally, a while ago she was also juggling a conflict of interest situation between a full-time employer and her own company. Amazing what people can accomplish if they’re greedy enough haha
She works in IT. Her main tool is Salesforce. Some of the clients she’s mentioned are universally known. Volkswagen and IKEA are two I remember.
I don’t know what she does exactly. But, to be fair, she doesn’t know what I do either, cause I have a Film & TV degree and our latest argument was about her insisting that I use that degree to “become an influencer, because influencers make money”. That conversation would have been hilarious if I wasn’t part of it. Like listening to a tween tell you what she wants to be when she grows up…
Why am I not surprised that she’s a Salesforce admin?
according to a google search first page intermediate level salesforce admin earns €50-60k per year which is roughly the average salary for Amsterdam for example.
I meant it not in terms of pay but in terms of personality. There’s a few too many Salesforce admins with personalities like what SethTaylor@lemmy.world described
Oh, wow! Can you tell me more about that? I didn’t know that was a thing and I can’t ask her
So the thing with Salesforce Admins, is its a sub-career within IT that requires minimal technical knowledge to be good at, plus by the nature of the job you end up working with vendor support, so if you’re really not good at your job you can simply pass everything to the vendor to do and just get paid to manage the projects and pass them between the business and the vendor.
I worked with a Salesforce admin who did exactly this and he collected a crazy salary for about a year while his boss tried to convince his boss’s boss to fire him for not being able to demonstrate the skills that his resume implied. I also later learned that he was also working at his brother’s Salesforce consulting firm at the same time, so extremely unprofessional and a clear conflict of interest.
Anyways, my point is, I’m not at all surprised that your sister who sounds like they’re kinda disconnected from reality works as a Salesforce admin. That’s just the aura that some Salesforce admins give off!
My sister’s husband is a software developer and frequently helps her with the technical aspects of her job. She has a degree in sociology. All she did to get her first job was a 6-month course or something like that. I guess now I understand how she was able to even make the switch in the first place.
Oh, and, coincidentally, a while ago she was also juggling a conflict of interest situation between a full-time employer and her own company. Amazing what people can accomplish if they’re greedy enough haha
Thanks!
if a 6 months course lands you a crazy salaried job with almost no work why everyone isn’t rich by now?