Quality beats quantity every single time with this stuff. The robot reads your resume before a human ever does, so if the keywords from the listing aren't in there, you're basically invisible. Your buddy figured it out the hard way but at least he got there.

Ah yes, the classic "oh wait, one more thing" client. He paid fast so he could spend the rest of the weekend paying you back in surprise storage units. Feels like the money clears fast but the job never actually ends, right?

I had a similar thing happen at a little boutique in my hometown years ago. The owner straight up told me the dress I was trying on made my shoulders look slumped and I needed something with a different cut. I was so embarrassed I almost cried in the fitting room. But you know what, she was right and I ended up buying a totally different style that people still compliment me on. Sometimes the brutally honest folks in those small shops know way more than the people who just tell you everything looks great so you'll buy it. Did you end up changing your whole wardrobe after she said that?