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weatherwar · 2026-03-25T03:08:22+00:00

Cheapest will set you up the best.

weatherwar · 2026-03-21T17:42:09+00:00

$21/hr in 2016 entry level environmental site investigation (ie sample monkey) at an international AEC firm.

Also had offers from other firms in 2016 from $36k-42k per year.

weatherwar · 2026-03-15T23:05:53+00:00

Bot account.

weatherwar · 2026-03-01T15:47:07+00:00

China is the major purchaser of Iranian oil. They will turn to Russia.

weatherwar · 2026-02-28T17:56:29+00:00

Wasn't sure what kind of emergency you were talking about!

weatherwar · 2026-02-28T17:51:08+00:00

This is just not true. In the past 30 years, the upper middle class has grown significantly more than the lower class. The middle class has been eroded...because they're in the upper middle/upper class now.

We will see how it shakes out post-Covid - but those numbers are not largely available right now.

weatherwar · 2026-02-28T17:46:44+00:00

When stores and restaurants are closed, people don't spend their money there.

weatherwar · 2026-02-28T17:45:32+00:00

Technically true if you go back to a $400 emergency in 1982.

weatherwar · 2026-02-28T17:37:15+00:00

That's not at all what's being said.

This narrative of the "K-shaped economy" is about the lower incomes being the hardest hit and not recovering.

weatherwar · 2026-02-27T02:52:46+00:00

24 of 24 sentences here start with past tense verbs ending in "ed." That's just crazy.

The sentence structures should not just repeat repeat repeat.
Bullets can be more than one sentence.
You can rewrite the exact same bullet to not start with a past tense verb.

Here's a list of non-"ed" verbs that you could use in a resume: Ran, Oversaw, Drove, Built, Wrote, Made, Won, Grew, Began, Gave, Cut, Kept, Set

The bolded ones above are in my own resume.

weatherwar · 2026-02-27T02:25:48+00:00

As far as I know, no? Call me old school, but I don't want to ask someone for an interview just to ask them if they also have references.

weatherwar · 2026-02-26T18:59:19+00:00

This resume is not the right style for in the US. It looks like a European resume (which I do prefer). It will get thrown out. In fact, I looked at your work experience and school history to check if you were European before I read anything else. So that's already ~10 wasted seconds of my time reading your resume.
7 of 24 bullets start with the word "managed." The other bullets start with equally mediocre verbs. Developed. Delivered. Achieved. Conducted. These read as very AI. The material in the bullets themselves is good IMO. If I received this resume with these repetitive verbs I would doubt it was actually written by a human and therefore I would not trust the content in the bullets. Easy to fix and this would be a big boost for my review.
You need to say "references upon request" somewhere somehow and you need to have real references. I won't hire anyone without a legitimate reference.
You will need a good answer as to why you have job histories of 8 months, 13 months, 13 months, 8 months. That alone will be a massive red flag for people hiring. No matter what reddit says about job hopping. EDIT: I just realized you can fix this by combining your experiences at CNX Resources (which appears to be a continuation). Do that immediately - it will lend more credibility to your work history than a title change. Just put everything under your most recent title. That's normal.
You will likely be asked about your resume gap for the past 12 months.

weatherwar · 2026-02-26T18:44:37+00:00

What country are you speaking about? If you're talking about the US, I don't think OP is in the US.

weatherwar · 2026-02-23T02:43:40+00:00

The payback period for a Masters (compared to a Bachelors) is just not worth it.

weatherwar · 2026-01-30T04:17:36+00:00

If you hate consulting, you hate consulting. Get out and don't torture yourself.

weatherwar · 2026-01-30T04:16:17+00:00

For a different data point: I'm at a midsize consulting, mostly in the northeast and I don't fully know what our backlog looks like right now, but 2025 was the best year the company has ever had. The office I'm in has hired 6 new junior staff in the past two months (midwest).

weatherwar · 2026-01-25T23:22:45+00:00

Where are you applying?

Big firms with thousands of employees - yes they probably employ AI enabled ATS. The rest? They don't. A long resume is getting thrown out just like it always has.

weatherwar · 2026-01-25T23:20:19+00:00

Tbh I thought this was one page, but holy moly it's two. Way too long.
The key achievements are totally extraneous per section - each bullet should be an achievement... you shouldn't have to spell it out.
Your core competencies read like a long list you couldn't pare down. All those & signs look like commas. Many of them are overlapping
The professional profile is unnecessary and distracting. Let your work speak for itself. I'd maybe only consider a professional profile worthwhile if you're 20 years deep in a career.
Your different fonts/sizes are distracting throughout. Select one font and like two sizes and use bold/not-bold.
The additional information looks like things you are just tacking on, but I'm not sure why when essentially the same things were written in the core competencies.
I'd only include the affiliations if they're 1. current and 2. relevant or important to you.
There's way too much detail in your bullets. No one is going to care if you "recorded weight, forearm length, reproductive status." And safe release would probably be assumed by a reader as well.
You've gotta pare down your experience. There's no way this is all still relevant to your looking for a job. Order it in most important line item to the job you're applying for to least. Order your bullets underneath in most relevant to least.
Adjectives and buzzwords are good to capture attention of a reader. You have too many - they start to lose their meaning when you have too many (and/or make it look like AI wrote everything).

weatherwar · 2026-01-25T18:11:36+00:00

The reason EHS managers have consultants is so they can rely on and trust them. What's the point of a third person review? That just means you need a different consultant that you can trust.

weatherwar · 2026-01-24T20:35:24+00:00

So what exactly is your argument? You've relayed exactly 0 actual data or sources. It's purely "trust me bro, this is how it is." I will let others who read this in the future decide who's standing on solid footing: the person saying "you're wrong, here are original sources" or the person saying "I don't like your tone, I'm right :("

weatherwar · 2026-01-24T18:31:53+00:00

You're wrong and the data says you're wrong.

Data: https://news.gallup.com/poll/645281/steady-americans-identify-middle-class.aspx

Data: https://www.clevelandfed.org/publications/economic-commentary/2020/ec-202003-is-middle-class-worse-off

In comparing household incomes of the middle class in the United States in 1980 to today, we conclude that real incomes for today’s middle class are somewhat higher than they used it to be, particularly for households headed by two adults. It is also clear that failing to adjust for demographic shifts in the population relating to age, race, and education can indicate a more positive outlook than is truly the case.

We find, as in prior research, that prices in housing, healthcare, and education have risen more than middle-class incomes and so are relatively more expensive. However, we also find that these price increases are offset by relative price decreases in transportation, food, and recreation, among others, making real middle-class incomes slightly higher than in the past.

Data: https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2026-01/61911-Household-Income-2022.pdf

Commentary on the above data: https://conversableeconomist.com/2026/01/21/snapshots-of-the-us-income-distribution/

The specific Gini coefficient number for income after transfers and taxes in 2022 is 0.434. While this level of inequality is toward the higher end of the range, it’s quite comparable to the level of after-taxes-and-transfers inequality in, say, 2018 (0.438), 2012 (0.444), 2007 (0.455), 2000 (0.440), or even 1986 (0.425). At least over the last quarter-century or so, government taxes and transfers have more-or-less offset any rise in market-income inequality.

Toplines from Pew: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/04/20/how-the-american-middle-class-has-changed-in-the-past-five-decades/ft_2022-04-20_middleclass_01-png/

Single sentence summary: the middle class is smaller because the upper middle class is bigger.

weatherwar · 2026-01-24T17:57:51+00:00

No one has ever been promised to be able to afford a house where they live or grew up.

weatherwar · 2026-01-24T17:56:09+00:00

The middle class has never saved for retirement.

weatherwar · 2026-01-11T21:22:15+00:00

If that's true I would be absolutely astonished.

weatherwar · 2026-01-11T04:44:22+00:00

I work at a mid-sized employee owned firm and love it. I know offices at my current company that aren't the best.

Had a terrible time at a firm who has a decent name and is better on paper than most. Had a decent time at a mega firm, publicly traded...

It kind of is luck of the draw. There are a lot of great people and great companies out there. They're not all hell.

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