u/SkyrimTonic

So I've been stuck for weeks trying to tighten up this thing. I know this is pretty meta but I'm nervous to post until it looks decent. I did throw my resume at proresumehelp for a bit of a DIY facelift before submitting a few files. Honestly tho, not sure if the template even matters anymore. I saw some proresumehelp reviews talking about ATS optimization though, and I'm trying to figure out if I'm missing something critical.

Does any of this look red-flaggy to you? I've sent maybe 15 applications in the last two months and gotten… literally zero replies. That's one of the reasons I'm doing this exercise.

Curious if anyone should be automating this stuff before asking a live person for advice

I run a pretty decent Voron setup in my garage mostly for my own engineering projects and occasional local commission work . Last month an acquaintance from a local maker group messaged me out of the blue asking if I could print a complete set of armor files he bought online for a convention. I normally charge a flat rate that covers electricity, machine wear, post processing prep, and filament. Since he is a regular at the same meetup I offered him a twenty percent discount on the total cost. He hesitated and said he would think about it.

Two weeks later he messages me completely panicked . He claims he spent eighty bucks buying the STL files but did not read the description closely. The designer modeled the entire armor set specifically for large format SLA resin printers, meaning the files are split into hundreds of microscopic pieces that require massive amounts of custom supports and orientation tweaking to work on a standard FDM machine without turning into spaghetti. He tried doing it on his own budget printer, clogged his hotend, ruined his PEI sheet, and now the convention is in less than three weeks. He begged me to take over the project because my machines are faster and more reliable.

Here is the part where I might be the asshole . He asked if I could do it just for the price of the raw plastic spools because he already blew his budget on the wrong files and a ruined print bed. I told him absolutely not. Slicing these files for an FDM printer is going to take me hours of tedious manual labor just setting up the support structures and splitting the models so they do not fail halfway through a twenty hour print cycle. Not to mention the fact that running my printers non stop for two weeks straight is going to eat a noticeable amount of electricity and put a lot of wear on my linear rails and nozzles.

When I gave him my adjusted price which included a heavy labor fee for the file fixing he got incredibly defensive . He said I am gatekeeping the hobby and exploiting his desperation over a mistake anyone could make . He claims that since my printers are just sitting in my garage anyway it costs me nothing to be a decent guy and help a fellow maker out of a jam. A few guys in our local group chat subtly hinted that I am being inflexible since he is genuinely stressed out about missing his deadline.

I feel a bit bad that his project is completely dead in the water now but I am not running a charity. My time spent troubleshooting his bad purchase has value and I do not want my hardware tied up for weeks just to break even on material costs.

WIBTA if I stand my ground and tell him to find someone else to bail him out?