Interesting survey

The survey didn't seem to collect information on bonuses, which turned out to be a significant chunk of my compensation.

any one's company looking for a suitescript developer? Looking for a remote part-time/small project

How did people land in their admin jobs? Am looking for a more robust opportunity, but having trouble breaking in.

I got my first admin job because my boss didn't like me and dumped NS in my lap (because I was an Econ major in college) when the prior admin burned out and quit without giving notice.

To this day, I like to think it was in an attempt to make me burn out

And you persevere out of spite?

😉

i was working as a programmer for a company who decided to scrap their homegrown erp system and purchase one so i became the de facto admin for the company

I'm fueled most days by equal parts spite and coffee.

haha, i can never tell if @bednar loves or hates his job

I'm very well paid for something that I'm actually relatively good at

If I still had time to have a personal life I'd love what I do. :0

came from a digital forensics background & was hired for something totally different than NetSuite, ended up being used to pick apart api's and local software to rebuild then somehow ended up in NetSuite from that bridge

@J-Mack Why do you feel you're having trouble?

I'm really where I am in my career today because I change companies every 18 months to chase more opportunity

Okay, so everyone kind of stumbled into their role the way I did. Good to know.

@erictgrubaugh Getting plenty of bites on my resume, but no follow up. It seems you have to be a dev to get a job. Still working on learning that aspect of it.

Interesting; I seem to talk to tons of admins who got there through various paths. Many were devs, definitely, but a lot were Accountants, or sys admins, or learned how to build one workflow accidentally one time 🙂 I would say that it feels a lot more common to see job postings for Admins that need SuiteScript experience

no feedback at all then, huh?

you pretty much HAVE to stumble into a netsuite role as netsuite makes it nearly impossible to learn it on your own

like say I am in college and Im looking at maybe getting some ERP skills or knowledge for the job market.. good luck getting any kind of netsuite access

whereas salesforce i just need an email

^ some universities do teach NetSuite in their Accounting programs, but yes, by and large it's very difficult any other way than working for someone who uses it

my school had ERP classes you could take in CS but never did myself

didnt think id ever be doing that stuff 😄

SalesForce opened their system long before Netsuite and gives away developers account easily - look where they are standing now because of this. You can get excellent third party training for SFDC, SAP etc for way lower cost than NS training. I even found a complete SFDC architect/Admin and Developer's certification course for under $300 (I am taking it now), whereas my NS Admin certification cost thousands in comparison. NS better open up their system more and allow easier access to developer account.

^ That is definitely the hope

i JUST found out how to access the 3 dev accounts included with sandbox

but yeah i’ve hear so many stories of vendors i work with trying to get a dev account so they can build an integration and they can’t get netsuite to approve it