I'm broke, as usual. I'm no longer homeless and no longer literally dying (health issue), but I can't say I'm exactly a happy camper.
I have $155 bill due in 3 days that I can't cover. My paycheck this week will be less than that. And then there's living expenses, like groceries. The cupboards are bare, again.
I do resume work, but I'm not good at promoting that. (And I blog, but my Patreon is underfunded. Ads are dead and I mostly don't use them.) I have personal barriers to making the business connections I need (health, gender, etc).
No, not in this case. It's my perpetually maxxed out credit card.
I also have a dead fridge I'd love to replace and numerous other things that I've put off because I simply couldn't afford them.
I've been poor long enough that I have actual poor people problems. It's a completely different problem space from what most folks on HN are dealing with, or what I dealt with for most of my life. I wasn't always poor. Combination of serious health crisis plus divorce were The Perfect Storm.
I only asked in case that helps you remove the health/gender bit from your service brand, if those are things you feel limit your ability to make connections. Do you compartmentalise the aspects of your brand to ensure a clear pitch? e.g., the CV stuff is very separate from the San Diego blog or the health discoveries you've made over the years?
I'm in a tiny town. I don't see this being a big market for resume work. (Locally, I do website work very part-time.)
I had a former CEO on hiatus hire me while I was still homeless -- just before I got off the street, in fact. He was satisfied enough that his wife hired me a few months later, even though I had raised my prices.
I've had a few people with a lot of tech experience. So I imagine a lot of people simply wouldn't understand their resumes in a meaningful way. They generally say nice things about my work.
But I'm best known for having been homeless. When I try to tell random people that what I do is for very experienced people, it doesn't get believed.
(When I post on r/forhire, I'm generally downvoted. It usually doesn't result in work.)
I have no idea how to convince people that this is the type people I actually work for. Most of the individuals who hire me seem to know me through HN and hire me for their own reasons, but I have no obvious means to parley that into word of mouth or whatever.
I've done what I can to compartmentalize it, but my name is quite distinctive. I've made my peace with the fact that people can connect the dots with little effort and if they have a problem with those other aspects of me, there's not really anything I can do about it.
I wonder if you could try a standalone website/brand purely for the resume service to isolate the spiel? polishedresumes.com or something. Make that the tip of your spear. You can be known for other things, but if someone wants to recommend your resume service to their peers, they have a URL that is to the point.
That said, Homeless Resumes is a bit barefoot investor or whatever that brand is.
I'm broke, as usual. I'm no longer homeless and no longer literally dying (health issue), but I can't say I'm exactly a happy camper.
I have $155 bill due in 3 days that I can't cover. My paycheck this week will be less than that. And then there's living expenses, like groceries. The cupboards are bare, again.
I do resume work, but I'm not good at promoting that. (And I blog, but my Patreon is underfunded. Ads are dead and I mostly don't use them.) I have personal barriers to making the business connections I need (health, gender, etc).
Same old, same old.