Being thrust into the job-seeking market is never easy, especially when it drags on for months. Despite all your experience and skill, you start to question if it's worth it. But it is. Today I accepted a long term contract role working for Salesforce. A literal dream come true.

Wow, it’s been a minute. Still on the job hunt. Got narrowly beat for an amazing role last week because of a tiny arbitrary thing. Still angry about it, even though the hiring manager 100% wants to bring me on the team and all but committed to do so as soon as he is able to.

It’s a great feeling going into the weekend knowing I have an interview Monday morning. Nice bit of wind in my sails.

Very well known Salesforce recruiter posts about a contract role on LinkedIn, asking for a DM if interested. So I message him within 45 minutes of his post. He sends me a connection request, but otherwise doesn’t reply. Huh?

Enjoying exploring the batch of certifications I want to take on the road to being an architect that focuses on UI/UX.

Cooking up a little something to be released soon 👀

Also, after a lot of thought I think it’s really going to serve me best to stick with my niche of UI Development in Salesforce and forge my own path towards something like a Salesforce UI Architect

It's a huge relief and confidence booster now that i'm forcing myself to sit down and go through the Trailhead Apex Coding trail, so I can learn it the right away rather than be thrown in the deep end and learn to pick apart existing classes.

For Los Angeles, the Dodgers just saved 2025

When you get submitted for a job that’s going to have multiple technical interviews

It’s a hell of a feeling to know that something I wrote is making its way around Salesforce in a way that will probably end up improving a product! Great way to start my day!

Pretty pleased with how the networking efforts over the past 2 months are fueling the job search. Have potential interviews with Block and a few others to schedule, including a consulting company who reached out to me when one of their people saw my post on the Salesforce Ohana Slack 😎

Considering moving all of my project data for my two active projects from ChatGPT to Claude Code. Been reading that the latter excels at longer term complex projects and better output & documentation.

So what’s the over/under now on him declaring Democrats a National threat so they can have their official Fifth Reich? www.aclu.org/news/nationa...

Just signed up for 'Integration Developer 101' on Cloud Code Academy. Looking forward to closing up that skill gap.

Feel like I’m walking in the Shire

It’s kind of a weird thing existing in a niche corner of Salesforce Development as a primarily Front End guy

Funny how I’ve seen the same role for multiple locations get posted and reposted by Atlassian over the past 2 months when they’ve rejected me twice almost right away. Guys, I’m a solid candidate and I’m going to keep applying until you give me a shot 🤣

Just published something I’ve been nervous (but excited) to share — how Salesforce’s new Agentforce Vibes and SLDS don’t quite speak the same language yet, and how my framework ForceKit could bridge that gap. medium.com/@stephen_675... #Salesforce #DesignSystems #AI #ForceKit

Let’s let Agentforce build a flow! WHAT COULD GO WRONG?

Crazy. What started as a fun project and a cool thing to build is turning into a whole Design System layer that extends the Lightning Design System + LWC...a fully native developer-first, SLDS compliant framework. // #salesforce #design

Wait, Benioff actually tried to pretend he gave a crap about the community?

Feels good to be in one of these again.

Not even lunchtime and already I have one phone interview request, one solid lead that will probably result in a phone interview, and a former co-worker forwarding my info for some possible consulting work. Starting the week off right!

Finally getting myself a new Trailblazer hoodie - just wish I could get a Ranger patch to go with it.

Applied to great sounding job last week - over 100 applicants. Messaged their Salesforce hiring manager on LinkedIn and guaranteed my application will be viewed next week. Sweet.

Well, shut down my work laptop for the final time and got it ready to ship. Guess I’m a free agent now.

Cooking up a new Project. ForceKit, a LWC/SLDS framework for developing Lightning Web Components. Think "Salesforce Bootstrap". #salesforce

Well this REALLY made my day!

I’ve noticed I’ve developed a healthy resilience habit of accomplishing things to cancel out the sting of rejection. Didn’t get an interview, so I ran through some Apex training and applied for a bunch more jobs.

Confusing. This would be the perfect role for me. I applied, received a supposed 'rejection' the very next day, despite being perfectly qualified. But the posting is still on LinkedIn, still on their website, and my application is listed as still under consideration www.atlassian.com/company/care...

Another potential role lost due to lack of experience with integrations with Salesforce.

Increasingly wondering if Freelancing/Consulting w/ Salesforce is the way to go.

Really looking forward into diving into some creative SLDS2 and LWC related projects soon, really getting back into my Front End Dev roots. #salesforce #dev

Some thoughts about Flows and Scoping that I learned the hard way

Another post-interview rejection. Oh well, keep moving forward.

First phone interview went pretty well, from what I can gather. I wasn't over-nervous or talking too fast, and I think I gave a good representation of my capabilities. Will hopefully know by next week if they're going to set up a second interview

Three things contributing to my imposter syndrome today; ✅ Feeling like not having my Platform Developer I certification is a barrier to me finding another Salesforce Developer position 🧵⬇️ #salesforce #jobhunting

As good as Trailhead is - i'm starting to feel like chatgpt has been so much help to me in learning the little nuances of Flows and Apex.

Salesforce lays off 4K employees. Stock performance: flat Oracle lays off 2K employees. Stock up 500%.

Soothing the sting of job application rejection by indulging in one of the best movies ever.

Ah, feels good to be running on Git again.

Monday morning is for bizarre behaviors, I guess. With the Winter '26 update, for some reason in our Sandbox Lightning Output Fields now display a checkbox field as an icon instead of the slds-checkbox input, throwing styling off.

Setting up my long neglected SFDX environment on my MacBook is going to be a fun process of updating underlying JS tools and task runners just to get everything up to date in VS Code

Applied for a position at Salesforce over the long weekend. Realistically not expecting much, but it's a cool position and i'm hopeful, so fingers crossed! #salesforce

Been a nice relaxing day - gym, cleaning the apartment, movies, applying to 5-10 more Salesforce positions - even a position *at* Salesforce! Hope everyone is having a great weekend.

6 jobs applied to and one call with a salesforce specific recruiter is a good way to feel better going into a holiday weekend

Welp, looks like due to business circumstances my position is being eliminated effective September 30th. So if anyone out there needs a solid salesforce developer/admin with a background in front end dev, i'm your guy! #salesforce

It's a great feeling for work to finally be switching to GitHub, so I can *finally* start working with Dev Ops Center #salesforce