How I really feel about Salesforce (+LIVESTREAM info) 

Pure facts! I love your honesty and advice. Been following you on different platforms and watching your videos ever since I wanted to start learning how to code. I hope you never get tired of making more videos.

David - You're spot on. Thanks for sharing your insights in this video. I'm hoping to join the livestream this weekend! Also, I couldn't agree more...to be successful as a Salesforce Admin, folks need to have strong communication skills, presentation skills, process simplification skills, business requirements gathering skills, change management skills, negotiation skills and more.

Your videos are inspirational! Anyone who think the opposite are negative, sad people, you know, those bad apple coworkers.. Thank you David! Your courses are worth thousands plus, thank you for your generosity.

Your “Which Certification” video was my intro into Salesforce on May 21st and yesterday I passed my 4th cert (following your advice Admin, App Builder, Adv. Admin, Sales Cloud). I’m beyond grateful for all the advice you’ve so generously shared. Seriously, thank you so much for your videos! The perspective that you bring and the way you do it with such sincerity and humor is hard to come by. Looking forward to your Livestream and picking your brain about different approaches to becoming a Dev. Keep it up, man!

Sir, Your are an inspiration for all the Salesforce professional.! Nothing comes for free! You are right in your own place! I sincerely watch your all videos and you are the reason i came to know about this booming carrer🙏

I can't agree more. I've been following you for almost 5 years. Started following your SFDC99 and afterwards Pluralsight. You inspired me more than anyone else. You are a mentor for me, even if we haven't met once. Your knowledge allowed me to quickly transition from an entry consultant job to a Salesforce Solutions Architect role at IBM and now getting more experience elsewhere. You are a really good human David, an inspiring one. Keep it up. See you soon, I hope!

You have helped so many people. I see many people in these comments, linkedin etc thank you for your efforts. Your coding course was got me into coding (before I had never written a line of code). Now I love writing code and I'm so close to my Dev II cert. I owe you one for the positive impact you've had on my life. Don't listen to the minority of people who want to find issues & hate on others.

David I appreciate you. Your not sneaky and your a man of your word. Thanks for everything

Thank you for everything you do my man ! I really honestly wouldn't be anywhere in Salesforce without the apex academy ! Really helped me a lot and showed me a way to study coding.

I bet on Salesforce 7 years ago as a career, but it was you who inspired me to take it to the next level with coding and pursuing my architect cert. I shared this with my younger coworkers who have only known Salesforce as a suggestion for growth and the future. Impacting and improving someone's career/life is incredibly rewarding. I hope you feel the same way David on all the lives you have touched. Thank you for this video.

Don't stop making these videos, they are very helpful. 🚀

Good stuff. With your background, I definitely place a lot of weight on your thoughts about Salesforce. Thanks 🙏🏽

David, this was a great video. Hope to be on the livestream this Saturday.

David, thank you as always for keeping it real. As an admin, I know how important it is to keep relevant and keep learning beyond the standard declarative tools. For admins who don't think they can handle coding, they should be ready to wear sales/operations/analytics hats as well.

Great video as usual. You covered a lot of points that were important to those just joining Salesforce like myself. I hope I run into you whether at Dreamforce or working together in the future !

Great video David as always! I do not know, but I believe in you when you say that you are not trying to sell more courses :) Thank you for always sharing great content.

I have my Admin cert and have just started looking into getting my Dev cert. I think the two certs together will give me a better understanding of Salesforce - and future-proofing my position in my company

Loved the 1 month free offer 😉 - I see what you did there, you cute smart adorable human being!!! Keep these youtube videos coming. We all wait for it and love to hear you. Anyways I want to say something over the 20 yrs from now thing - The way sf has been acquiring new customers and innovating new features each quarter and retaining almost all of the customers every year - if we maintain this pace for coming 80 quarters there wont be many companies left who wont use our products/services in some form. Therefore stagnation will be imminent in future but we will still be better than most of the honouralble competitve giants. But hey, why predict something - lets just enjoy what we love to do.

Thanks for one more video with good quality info , David. Keep it up! ;-)

This is why I'm trying to build my skills as fast as possible, thanks David!!

I didn't know you had a RU-vid channel! So glad I found it. I really appreciate your transparency. As an admin I've wondered where I want to take my career next. Should I learn to code, what language should I learn, etc. I'm glad to see that I'm not imagining that the admin role is transitioning heavily towards dev. I'm subscribed and looking forward to making my way through your content!

Thanks for the clarification,especially for those who perceived the initial video on the negative. As for me, you are a saint. 😀😀😀

We were just talking about you today! You have us all nervous! Thanks for being real though.

When finish the video, I just have to post something. I like your video and thank you so much for sharing your vision! Hope you can get more subscriptions! Your videos are good and helpful!

Hi Davis, thank you very much for this very valuable information! I guess you are talking about the market in USA? Just wanted to mention that I´m based in Berlin and I just started doing a course about Salesforce Consultancy which will keep me fully occupied the rest of the year. I have a background on Sales and Customer Service and having worked for several Saas companies, I´m quite sure Salesforce will still be relevant in 20 years from now, at least in Germany. Best regards!

Hey David! Thanks for making my Saturday productive. lol. Will be tuning in to your 7pm live stream :-) 12:00-12:28 * skill stacker

I like your videos, it feels like you can create any content and you will have lot of followers.

Much better video I think. More clear and nuanced. Still data is king, like to have sample size and raw numbers. Trends are certainly important to keep an eye on, so I appreciate your insights.

Wow! Great content David as always. See you at the weekend! I see a ton of emails coming your way :D

Hi David, I have been a dev for over 20 years. I will be starting my salesforce journey in my company. I transferred to a new team and will work on CPQ however I do not have any certs yet. Thankfully I am in a better position since I can gain experience at my current job. I plan to get the certs that you suggested: admin, adv admin, platf app, cpq, sales cloud, platf dev.

Ahh. Saturday. I will be on the road otherwise would love to join. You are a lot of inspiration.

A salesforce developer has a strong insight into all aspects of full-stack development, plus with additional opportunities such as cloud computing and even AI/ML. If SF is dead in 20 years time, so are all current jobs in tech.

David, as I said in other videos I really enjoy your videos and this one is super great too :) I just have a question, it's not necessarily related to Salesforce but to IT in general. I'm a Salesforce consultant and do both admin and development tasks, and now I'm thinking in get more involved in marketing and CX in general. Do you think it's better to focus 1000% on my development skills or it's great to have a broader view?

Hi David You are an inspiration for newbies like me. Thanks for such an amazing stuff. I have one query, I am new to javascript, should I learn Aura first or skip Aura altogether and start with learning LWC? Your response will be highly appreciated. Thank you once again.

How about I subscribe instead! You are awesome! I am starting my journey to become a Salesforce Dev at almost 37. I will do whatever it takes to get there for my kids and wife. Thank you for your awesome content!

Today, I had my first salesforce cert. exam(pd1) and I failed the exam. after a lot of sleepless nights of preparation, it really hurts. My first goal is to become Salesforce Application Architect, this failure will spice up my success story😉😂 btw you are my Inspiration David😃

Thank you for sharing harsh truth of the industry.

I will argue that the core message should wrap around becoming well rounded in DBMS, whatever your career path is. I found no problem using my mainframe DBMS Applications Programmer Full Lifecycle experience to easily become a Salesforce Developer, performing Release Lead responsibilities, working on Applications Architect. A CRM is a DBMS.

I need someone to help me with salesforce I need to make some changes but I cannot find anyone to help. any recommendations?

I am getting the exact different push back from clients. Far too many hire dev and having horrible experience with them, the issue is so many dev's just come in from other tech and have jumped into Salesforce. And many people are getting burned from these dev's.

Hi Dave. Can you recommend what coding courses to do that will go well with SF? I have been learning JavaScript and I'm not quite there yet in terms of understanding it truly well. I Plan to do SF as well. I'm 40 and I want to start a new career your advice on top of this video would be great for best direction to go for the next 20 years.

You are the best!!!!

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 keep it up buddy

Hi David! Can you please keep making videos, because you are a guy who wants to genuinely help people. There are lot of people who are lost in their lives with no direction, no purpose and low self respect, and I believe your videos can bring a change in their lives. Maybe it is too much to ask from you because none of us are paying you for your efforts. But please make videos even if it is one video per 3-6 months :P . Hope you are in good health. Bye!

Coming from a full stack java background I'm currently studying to get my PD1 cert, and plan to follow up with PD2 and JavaScript cert. I'm hoping to get these 3 within a year and get a job in Salesforce. I currently work in IT infrastructure in a completely unrelated role

Hey just came across some of your content I love it!!!! Also does the offer still stands about the coding course

Hi David, I am thinking of switching from Salesforce development to more general software engineering, probably web development. I found that Salesforce development was much too proprietary and limited. What do you think?

Do you have any suggestions or tips for a salesforce dev who is in their 20s currently ? Would you say it's better to stick to/learn general software development (java,js) rather than Salesforce development exclusively in order to be more well rounded and easily switch between technologies ..you know in case we need to 20 years down the line 😐 ?

I've noticed that Admin jobs are getting rolled into Operations roles. Basically, operations analysts and managers need to also be an Admin. The employers get two for one that way but still pay you a lot more than a non admin operations analyst/manager.

Thanks David, I am 38 YO and experienced software testing professional, would you recommend me starting SF career regardless of me being 38 years old?

SOS EL MEJOR DAVID

How hard is it to become a Salesforce Developer, if one has never done programming? Or is it good idea to start as an Admin and then slowly move to Developer? I had taken Java 20 years ago and hated it. I have been in the IT field (Sys Admin, Business Analyst, Application Support etc) for the past 20 years, but never done programming after that Java experience :).

David, that is totally unfair criticism of your selling your course. People have their eyes wide open before they decide. They still get the course. I work in the construction industry where we have too many dodgy operators so many customers end up with houses full of defects. The ceiling of my garage collapsed and there is nothing I can do as it is out of the warranty period So don't be affected by unfair criticism. You are a good guy that care about people by telling us what is actually happening in your field.

Most ppl say sales force will peak around 2030 an Start the decline from there as a person who only sees myself working in it for 5 to 6 years while building side projects do you think sales force salaries will maintain or increase for just the next 5 years or do you see signs slowing already now

Hey David, First of all thank you very much. Everytime you come, you give great advice. I just had one issue, can't find your email anywhere.. it just might be me who is not able to find it may be😅

Hi David. How will I learn to be a Salesforce Developer or Admin? I tried signing up in Trailhead, but I prefer to have a human teacher instead...is there a course that I can enroll? Thanks

I'm pretty sure this video will be recommended by RU-vid algo after 10/20 years. People will be commenting this guy warned us, damn

Are you still offering a free month of your coding courses? :) I'm very late to the salesforce game! 🤪

Negative Talk from Positive Man ! Though I Agree With You, I want to know what is the future of Low Code /No code and Your View on this because Salesforce itself promote this

Feels like David is only gonna make his own company , hire developers , be the manager / CEO of this new company which will compete amd overtake Salesforce in next 10 years . Bet on this , this is gonna be true ! 😂 And if this gonna be your plan David , then do hire full stack developers like us into your team , we freshers have all the energy to learn and apply all hands-on skills ! 😀✌️

I TOTALLY agree with Salesforce in 20 years. BUT Rather than saying it will cease to exist it will still exist it's just the rates will be so bad you wouldn't bother. I found exactly the same during the first dot com boom. I came out of Uni knowing HTML, I was the hottest commodity in the country. I could write my own cheques. Now it's a totally different story, an HTML developer just doesn't exist anymore... But Devs vs Admin... Code is being pushed further and further away in the stack with Flow etc... therefore I think the boundary between devs and admins is going to be a lot more blury.

Hey @David - I’m 3x certified (Admin, Advanced Admin, App Builder) and I’ll take you up on your offer here for a month’s free coding from you - when I secure a dev position I will pay you the value of / purchase the course. Is this offer still live? Thanks

All SF has done is made my job more difficult. No one I know that actually uses it cares for it. Nothing against you. It's really terrible to use at least in our industry.

Hi David people who comment ur pushing courses are they working for free??? David=royalty helps society Sarcastic people=beggers who want everything free Ethical Business is good..

That 4500$ setup is worth it 😂😂

I’m looking for your email everywhere. Omg what am I missing? Lol

So then why did you produce a video saying DON'T LEARN TO CODE!

Smh another video about selling more coding courses. Such a villain >:)