I'm a transcriptionist and am boggled by the low pay standard in this industry. The only reason why pay is that low is because so-called professionals undercut their rates to match all the cheap outsourcing to India. I have firmish rates and 99% of the time I either get no response to a quote or am told "Ha, you're…

The women's list isn't much better. NO accessories? And I consider myself a minimalist, but find this suggested list too bare. Dresses are super-easy ways to have one nice outfit, and can be combined with other separates to get extra use out of them. They advise having one dress — but three coats? Crazy talk.

Yeah. I have a major size change more frequently than I wear a tux (or a formal suit for that matter). I'm not going to put that crap in my closet, I'll just rent if I've got to have one.

2x suits, 1x tux, 3x blazers, 2x bowties... is this an essential list for Downton Abbey?

If you haven't had the MMR shot, or if you're not sure, go ahead and roll up your sleeve.

Yeah, the chickenpox vaccine became a thing in the mid-1990s. I wish it had been an option before I got it as a kid in the early 1990s, because unlike most childhood diseases, once you get infected with the chickenpox virus, you always have it—just like herpes. The virus lies dormant, and can manifest itself as…

"What's archaic, contagious, and has a high rate of complications?" Ooo-oo, I know this one! It's willfully moronic, child-endangering scientific illiteracy, isn't it?!

I don't know that there's any one brand I'm loyal to, but for loose tea, large tea filters really are fine. They fit in most mugs or smaller teapots, and are disposable. They come in a range of sizes, so you can steep mugs or larger pots, depending on the size of the filter you choose. I guess I mostly use t-sac,…

I don't know that there's any one brand I'm loyal to, but for loose tea, large tea filters really are fine. They…

No, being in the same company but changing titles is normal. You'd just list the different positions chronologically

I second this. Your ultimate employer was the DoD, they just happened to farm you out to separate companies during that tenure. List them as your employer, with the specific companies listed underneath.

Put the parent company (so DoD) first, then list in parentheses the contracting companies. That's really what they care about, anyway.

If you're an independent contractor, you could put everything under that umbrella on your resume. E.g., "Independent Contractor - April 2010 to present" and list the companies and job achievements under that.

From our previous article on staying too long at a job (emphasis added):

Sleeping in a pitch black room is delightful...until you wake up to go to the bathroom and run face first into the wall. Then, because you're still not awake, you back up and do it again. Then, you go to work the next day and everyone probably thinks your boyfriend beats you. True story, sigh.

Sleeping in a pitch black room is delightful...until you wake up to go to the bathroom and run face first into the…

But if you have a sleep mask, can you even see the wake-up light?

But if you have a sleep mask, can you even see the wake-up light?

You forgot one........ if your significantly balding, please stop trying to hide it and just go really short or shaved bald.

I would also encourage people to look at other options beside college like the skilled trades. There are some amazing apprentice opportunities out there, you just have to find them.I use to think I wanted to go to college but as I went through high school I realized despite be being the classic college material I…

As a college professor, I wholeheartedly agree with all of these.

Hey JimD :)

I went through most of college without a real idea of what I wanted to do. I started out with one idea, dumped that, had another idea, dumped that, then had another idea which kind of sort of got half-dumped and half-morphed into my now-career. I wish it had been a bit smoother than that, and some of these tips might…