What do you guys think about conditional salary?
Today I got a 18% raise. I'll get another 18% (on the old salary) as soon as I pass the Salesforce Platform Developer 1 certification.
I'm pretty excited as this puts me in control of my salary to some extent. What do you guys think?

Does it matter what do we think? What do YOU think?

Most probably it will cause your internal evaluation to diminish the value of your work.

@Cyanide as I said, I'm pretty excited about this.

And although it does not "matter" what others think, I always loke having opinions from people who are more experienced and knowledgeable than me. That way, when I form my own opinions, I can use the advice and comments. I am very young, and arguably very naive.

Good. Quite rare.

Depends on your current salary though. 18% of very little is very very little.

@craig939393 sadly, the currently salary is very very little. Kids in the US make more than my monthly salary in an hour doing TikTok.

@nanobot go for the skill then and salary is a bonus. Then look at next skill. Eventually you will have enough skills that money is no longer the issue.

ATM I am working at £15,000 below my market value because it got me into a technical management position and I feel confident that in 3 years I will be able to go for a job paying £40,000 more than I make now.

... depends on the conditions

@ostream yeah I know 😅

But I'm waayyyy too poor to have choices. I'm investing in some "good" tech outside work, hoping to have some great options a year down the line.

@nanobot Don't do it! Salesforce isn't worth. Your rants have helped me with a crap Salesforce project I am a part of.

So if anyone is still interested, i didn't do the certification. But I studied a bit for this and trained myself a bit of Salesforce, so they put me in the core research and development team. The hike was way better than promised (probably because I had another awesome offer, but whatever).

@xJubeix LoL I couldn't force myself to the certification. I gave up halfway after being comfortable with LWCs and APEX. I can read code now pretty well, but God for it I have to write complete multimodule logic from scratch without someone watching over me 😅. That'd be a disaster I think.