@william_taylor nailed it with the copy-paste job thing. I had a buddy who paid $300 for one of those and his resume came back looking like it was written by a robot from 2014 (you know, the "results-driven professional" nonsense). Honestly, is a few months without callbacks really the end of the world? People act like a resume service is life or death, but it's just a piece of paper. Just rewrite it yourself in plain talk like you said and save the $200 for something useful.

@claire64 I actually think letting them handle it shows trust, not disrespect.

Man that Birch Lane job sounds like a nightmare. I helped a buddy finish a basement on Maple Street and the framing was so bad we had to rip out half the studs and start over. The floor was off by a full inch in one corner. Honestly it makes you wonder if the framer was just eyeballing it or something. Ngl those kinds of houses make you appreciate a good square wall when you find one.

Wait, wasn't it the opposite for me? I actually spent less when I went cashless because every purchase showed up in my banking app right away. Maybe try checking your account every couple days instead of leaving it to the end of the month.

And that load test is what separates the real pros from the multimeter jockeys, yeah? I've had cheap electrolytics show perfect ESR cold but sag like crazy once they actually had to pass current. What kind of load did he suggest putting on them for the test, a simple resistor or something more specific?