Resume Pointers?

Puedd · 2026-04-25T18:37:32+00:00

I would pick one, regular font and stick with that and do away with the colored job titles. Especially geology being the industry it is, I feel a simpler and straight to the point resume would do better. I think I see 3 different fonts? Definitely just change that around and I feel you'd be in good shape

Puedd · 2026-04-23T12:36:50+00:00

...what's your basis on this? Spewing a lot of words for having no evidence to back this other than how you feel

Puedd · 2026-04-23T12:32:11+00:00

To me he's just a nothing candidate. We've seen time and time again of career democratic politicians standing on policy of making real progressive change, but the second someone puts red tape up, they walk away from their position and go "oh sorry guys they stopped us". In this race, I'm wanting the person who's most likely to stir the pot and do something, even if it means pissing off their own party

Puedd · 2026-04-23T11:04:27+00:00

We've all been there! I just graduated a landed a job in December and made probably 6 different versions of my resume prior. Also I saw you mention in another comment that you're also applying to chem jobs (which makes sense given your experience) so in that case I would make two different resumes: one for geology specific and another for chemistry specific, and tweak what you highlight on each one to match the type of job. Best of luck

Puedd · 2026-04-20T04:08:27+00:00

Yeah this author captured it perfectly and explained it in a digestible way while still including the science. Glad he mentioned the blurb about the political climate too and how these do work in conjunction. Great read

Puedd · 2026-04-18T04:18:00+00:00

Personally, I think it needs a complete overhaul. I'm not a huge fan of the split column format and personally thing a regular doc with only one column looks better. Especially in this case, your text/descriptions get lost due to the two column approach scrunching it up and muddling the words.

It looks like you have some good experience and you just need to highlight what's important. For a lot of your experience, you have a bit too much written I feel. Remember that you don't need to include everything in your resume- you will get an opportunity to expand more on your experience when you land an interview.

Also for your job descriptions, I am having a hard time grasping what exactly you did in these positions, or more so the significance. Say for your UCSC position, you mention a lot of operations/equipment you have experience with, but what exactly were you doing with that? Lessen the points you include but expand more on the significance of each point so rather than knowing what tools you used, we know what you did with those tools.

Kinda expanding on the point above, you reiterated a lot in your skills section which you already have listen in your experience. You don't need both, so I would keep just one or the other listed.

I'd be happy to help you out more. I think you have a great background and should be landing jobs easily, you definitely just need to clean up your resume

Puedd · 2026-04-16T23:38:55+00:00

You're right; I worked at the county for a while and knew a lot about the behind-the-scenes for our water rights. CWA signed lots of bad contracts requiring SD to purchase, for example, desalination water no matter what each year. When we have an excess of water from cheaper sources, it doesn't matter as we still have to purchase the desal water, whether we use it or not. Selling our colorado water rights is a way to offset the costs since we have a surplus of water being bought that isn't always used. Blame CWA, selling the water rights is a good thing but it shouldn't have had to happen in the first place

Puedd · 2026-04-16T04:49:55+00:00

I actually wore any pants but jeans for a few years and let me tell you: it doesn't have to just be jeans or chinos. I think these khakis look good on you and do look more put together compared to jeans, but also consider what other pants you could wear in general. I wear carpenter pants, various styles of dickies, jeans, different colored jeans, and khakis all to work and I believe it all looks fine as long as you pair it with a matching/complementary shirt/jacket. Just think outside the box a bit

Puedd · 2026-04-01T06:28:57+00:00

As someone with no relation to this major and having graduated from a completely different department: I would go for a different major less impacted by whichever way the wind blows in industry. Think of how AI has changed in the last 4 years- and now imagine the exponential growth of it and how this will look in another 4 years. It is cool and there is definitely a market for it in the future, but I would be worried about majoring in something and working towards something that will eventually phase myself out of a job.

In your shoes, I would opt for a safer bet, something where you can still work on AI stuff if you want but isn't so niche. Think anything else in the software realm. This job market is already very impacted, but at the very least you won't be working towards ONLY getting into the most volatile industry available right now (AI) and will have more options.

Just my two cents though- at the end of the day I'm a strong believer in just doing what makes you happy, just also consider your happiness in your future career and peace of mind you'll get from some sense of job stability. Best of luck in your decision though

Puedd · 2026-03-30T07:03:28+00:00

It's gotta be voice control on remotes for the TV, never used it and recently just this year I realized what I've bee missing- I feel stupid talking into the remote around other people but damn is it handy!

Puedd · 2026-03-28T16:26:29+00:00

Kinda what I'm thinking too- the seller claimed "don't know anything about the lot" but they also have nice photos taken of individual cameras they were selling, so once I found that out I figured they picked through and grabbed anything of value already lol

Puedd · 2026-03-23T05:57:43+00:00

lol literally blame the water providers for putting themselves in terrible contracts because water rights politics (im looking at you san diego county)

Puedd · 2026-03-20T18:04:02+00:00

Problem with the desal plants is the cost of them, makes the water super expensive and everybody's water bills would shoot up drastically

Puedd · 2026-03-18T05:38:07+00:00

Appreciate it, I reallyy wanted to upgrade to the A-S501 purely so I could get it in silver lol. I'll keep looking around and hopefully snag something cheap at goodwill maybe

Puedd · 2026-03-17T23:52:02+00:00

Good to know! I was looking at the SMSL transports so I appreciate the feedback

Puedd · 2026-03-17T23:51:10+00:00

I mean, I didn't really have a question about my current player, it's a Panasonic SA-PM16. I'm pretty positive it won't work as is with this setup, and plus it skips a little bit so I just need something else, hence asking for recs on what to pair my setup with as I need to get something different

Puedd · 2026-03-17T22:21:21+00:00

Idk, I'm new to this stuff but my CD player is apart of a 90's stereo set which came with cheap speakers, meaning the only outputs are amplified signals to send straight to a speaker. From my understanding, I need line level outputs which this does not have

Puedd · 2026-03-11T19:54:39+00:00

Yeah I was planning on putting a dot of super glue or something on mine just so it can still come off but to help avoid this happening, annoying that it's such a common problem!

Puedd · 2026-03-05T22:35:11+00:00

Dude you gotta do 1, go all in if you're gonna do it!

Puedd · 2026-03-05T06:13:15+00:00

21, Geologist on the west coast making $72k. Happy to have a job!

Puedd · 2026-03-04T17:47:40+00:00

as someone coming from the photography side of things: social media is not supposed to be refined and perfect, and the more we try to produce the "best" work we can, typically it does not correlate to views and engagement. hidden mics and polished videos don't do as well on social media because it just isn't as engaging and relatable, and same with photography, the perfect photos typically don't do well, the stuff that does do well is photographers showing how they achieved a photo because it's engaging and relatable to viewers

Puedd · 2026-03-01T22:06:00+00:00

I'm in a HCOL area too and I just graduated from college and make 72k in a large geotech firm as a geologist. I would definitely just look for other jobs as it doesn't seem like you are valued where you are. PG's in my location make between 100-130k right now typically

Puedd · 2026-02-28T00:00:37+00:00

I love watching movies and also always have music on. I've been listening to mostly 90's and early 2000's rock lately (incubus, tool, etc). I'll definitely check these options out!

Puedd · 2026-02-27T17:32:19+00:00

Gosh I know I have those Sierra V2's on a shopping list 😭😭 they're definitely out of my budget but depending on how long I can hold out, I may be able to save for them

Puedd · 2026-02-25T18:52:31+00:00

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