We’ve had problems with our bathroom sink for almost five years, since we moved into this house. It always drained slow. We tried liquid plumber, liquid plumber gel, some plumber powder stuff, and my infamous homemade tool to fish stuff out of the drain.
Any solution worked for a day or so, but the problem never went away. I guess now’s the time to admit I have like no man-skills as far as DIY goes, and spend more time frustrated than fixing the actual problem.
Enter Bob. Bob came over to measure for a project and on his way past the sink we asked him what we could do to get to the root of the problem. “Oh,” he says, “just unscrew the pee trap and I bet your problem is there. If not, work your way up to the drain in the sink.” I asked “I don’t have to have that plumber putty stuff?” “No.” he says. “I unscrew it by hand?” “Yes.” he says.
I just fixed it. 4.5 years of problems with our sink are now washed away (pun intended ;)). It took… oh, 30 minutes to get it fixed and cleaned up.
30 minutes, guided by an expert, and my slow-drain sink problems go away.
If I would have gone to a resume expert, like Peter at Career Resumes, I would have avoided a long, dreary, depressing, job search. I try to DIY (do it yourself) all the time, because I’m cheap. But in my cheapness I lost tens of thousands of dollars in salary that I would have captured if I only had a job.
And I didn’t get my job because I didn’t get interviews.
And I didn’t get interviews because I my resume wasn’t right. It was shiny, and looked good, but it kept me out of interviews.
A professionally could have looked at that and said “hm, why isn’t this shiny resume getting you interviews?” And after some discovery, they would have helped me get into interviews, and then into a job.
Is it worth paying the money? If I could do it all over again, I definitely would have paid the money. If you aren’t getting interviews, there’s likely something wrong with your resume. Contact Career Resumes to see what they can do for you. It may be a simple, easy, quick, painless fix, but you might need a professional resume writer to help you get there… just like I needed a professional builder/handyman to help me fix my simple drain problem.
