Email dev for 10 years here. I can do any part of front end, but when you know SFMC, can code emails and take on multiple clients….it’s like they drove dump truck full of money up to my house. I make $400k some years now.

But the nature of e-mail is you’re working with non-technical stakeholders who have no ability to understand that errors in the email client rendering engine DO NOT represent bad coding or incompetence on my part.

Also most email dev managers won’t use MJML or frameworks. If they knew the value of a framework they wouldn’t be email devs.

My current manager thinks re-using code is plagiarism.

She has also said “it takes to long to migrate, just build it in production”.

I’m consistently being treated like I’m incompetent and being threatened with termination/loss of business bc emails don’t render correctly. I’m stressed to the point of crying after work lately. I know this is a me problem but damn does email dev suck.

It’s Kafkaesque. I’m taking a pay cut this year and switching to React.

End rant.