u/Tehloltractor

So I appreciate this is probably less of a financial advice question as it is a personal/psychological question. I'm 29 now and I'm on an above average wage (52k), and yet I have less than £1000 in savings.

The problem isn't really that I'm 'bad' with money in that I get myself into bad financial situations. Sadly I do rent but other than that, I'm completely debt free, and always spend within my means. I'm in the perfect position to be able to start saving money. But I spend pretty much to the limit of what I can and save very little of it.

I've never been able to break the cycle of enjoying all the money I've got, being materialistic and making impulsive purchases that I probably don't need.

It kind of grates on me because all my friends are doing well with mortgages and lots of savings, even though I know it's entirely my own doing. I'm wondering if anyone has been the same what helped them to change their habits.

So I'm planning to place some panels on the back wall behind the MLP, since the sofa is pushed against the wall. So I want to try and control the reflections off that wall.

In terms of aesthetics it would be best to place two panels side by side (3 likely won't fit with most panels I'm looking at). That would leave a gap between the two panels, maybe 6-12 inches, right where the middle seat is. My question is, when your head is only a few inches from the wall, is a gap like that going to be noticeable acoustically? Or does the coverage overall make that kind of thing negligible?

For reference my space is not that big - about 9.5 feet wide with the actual ear-speaker distance being around 7ft.

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As you can read from my CV I've been in EdTech (and a bit of finance) for 8 years as a software engineer. I'm wanting to get away from that and get in to a role like infrastructure engineer or similar. I'm just not sure how to position my resume towards that. I do feel that it's just not really working in general, because I have a slight variation on the same resume that I have also used to apply for other software engineer roles, and I am also getting no responses or interviews there either.

I'm in the UK and have tried a mixture of applying to remote (UK) jobs and local hybrid roles. I am simply targeting any industry I can at the moment. The job market definitely feels way worse than last time I job hunted - I used to get LinkedIn recruiters tripping over each other in my messages, and there just generally felt like a lot more opportunity. Having said that, I don't doubt my resume is the main thing holding me back in some way, I'm just not sure how. I've edited it and tried different formats many times and nothing seems to stick.