Wow, $350 for a piece of paper that can't even get you a coffee chat with a recruiter, that's rough! The craziest part is that the PMP is supposedly this golden ticket and yet here you are with a fancy certificate and crickets from Cleveland employers. Here's the thing nobody tells you before you hand over your credit card, HR filters and hiring managers care way more about what you've actually done than what test you passed. They want to see you ran a project, dealt with a grumpy client, missed a deadline and fixed it, not that you watched 35 hours of videos and answered multiple choice questions. My honest tip is to stop leading with the cert on your resume and instead dig up any real work you did that looks like project management, even if your title was something else. Volunteer to run a small project at your current job or for a local nonprofit so you have actual stories to tell in interviews. The cert can help later once you're already in the door, but it will never be the thing that gets you through it on its own.

Zojirushi pots don't peel if you don't scrub them with metal or run them through the dishwasher, so that's kind of on you. Plus the timer and keep warm settings are the whole point, a cooker without those is just a pot with a cord.