Warning: I spent $400 on a 'professional' resume rewrite that made things worse

Everyone says you need a fancy, keyword-stuffed resume to get past the bots, but mine came back sounding like a robot wrote it and I got zero calls. Has anyone actually landed a job with one of those services, or did I just get a bad writer?

My boss in Toledo asked me to stay late for the third time this month, but for no extra pay

It happened last Tuesday, right after my shift was supposed to end. He said, 'We just need you to handle these extra forms, it won't take long.' It took two more hours. I'm starting to look at online courses for bookkeeping, just to have a real skill. Has anyone else used a specific site for that kind of training?

A concrete foreman in Denver told me 'the schedule is a guess, the budget is a prayer, but the dirt never lies' and it stuck with me.

Family stuff actually feeds my indie songwriting, not kills it

I hear a lot of indie folks say that you need to be free from family ties to make real art. I totally disagree. My best lyrics come from moments with my kids or arguments with my spouse. For example, a song I wrote about my sister's wedding got our band its first radio play. Those daily home things give my music a truth that fancy studio time can't buy. Maybe it's not for everyone, but for me, family is my main muse. Let's stop acting like domestic life is the enemy of good indie music.

I just figured out that nutrition labels don't show if my lunch is hurting the earth.