LaTeX itself is sort of a rite of passage. It's slightly more useful, because the mathematical side of academia runs on it.
There's a bunch of template you get for free by doing what everybody else is doing. The corporate world has those too, but for Word, because that's what they use.
There's this subconscious believe that something that has a steep learning curve will make things easier later on. That is not always true. If you want stuff that is more complex than normal, Word and LaTeX are about equally as annoying, if nobody solved it for you (templates, Google). LaTeX is just harder for the easy stuff too.
Doing my resume was the last thing I did in LaTeX, not the first. Doing anything in LaTeX just stopped being useful when the recipients didn't recognize Computer Modern anymore.
There's a bunch of template you get for free by doing what everybody else is doing. The corporate world has those too, but for Word, because that's what they use.
There's this subconscious believe that something that has a steep learning curve will make things easier later on. That is not always true. If you want stuff that is more complex than normal, Word and LaTeX are about equally as annoying, if nobody solved it for you (templates, Google). LaTeX is just harder for the easy stuff too.
Doing my resume was the last thing I did in LaTeX, not the first. Doing anything in LaTeX just stopped being useful when the recipients didn't recognize Computer Modern anymore.