Never let your career slip

[yeahyeahyeah]

Dude if I saw you on the street I wouldn't even think you ever lost a hair in your life. How possibly has hairloss negatively impacted your career or any other aspect of your life? You have an amazing head of hair.

I am receeding and I think that I have some frontal thinning. Hair at the front feels less dense than the crown area.

So it still affects me mentally because I don't know how it will progress.

[swingline747]

I definitely lost a lot of earning potential because I spent 1.5-2 years unemployed/out of school, too depressed about hair loss to do anything with myself. However I did use that time to load up on finasteride and keto shampoo....this reversed my diffuse thinning enough to feel like life was worth living again.

The f*cked up thing is, your appearance (which hair has a big effect on) can have so much to do with your success at work, even if your looks have nothing to do with your job. The world is a sick place

I worked full time, putting myself through school. I was called the Jamaican by my freinds because I would work full time + part time, then go to school full time and do side work. I have been on my own since I was young.
Im in a great IT job now(not my dream and honestly dont feel the desire for it anymore, always wanted to be able to go into something medical).
Anyway, as hard as I worked, as charming as I was and good as my resume was put together, you know what got me hired? My looks (at the time).
I was told by my crew that right after the interview my would be boss basically said "damn hes a cutie, i like him, you guys good?", and shes a lesbian.
MY brother gets all his jobs because hes a good looking guy still. Hes a complete blithering moron, has no schooling, no drive and zero charm. He is enamored for his looks, like I used to be.

I know Im extremly down lately, Im venting, hoping I will tucker myself out, hoping it will pass, but after having to stop my fin and realizing there is nothing else I can do Ive hit bottom.

Ive lost all personal choice. My looks where the one thing I was always happy with myself about and they are gone. My dimwit bro who did nothing but goof his entire life off gets his choice, and gets to live a genuinely exciting and promiscuous life.... but hey living vicariously through your younger brother is always fun too right........ right..... uck someone hit me with their car please.

[swingline747]

also its hard to accomplish anything at work when you use your 8 hours trying to scour the internet for anything resembling a cure.

Wish I could do my actual work but seriously this consumes me, down to the point where I do slip at work. Right now I should be setting up user profiles and closing work tickets but instead Im on here trying to find alternatives to fin, figure out when histogen might be released, where a reputable decent HT surgeon might be and HOW I can afford it besides a 401K loan.

This is destroying me little by little each day. I go int the gym and constantly want to throw a weight at the walls being covered in mirrors. I see how the vast majority of other guys there actually have full heads. I see walls of mirrors showing my thin spots at all angles.

I then come to work and search the internet for some kind of hope.

You can say dont let your career slip but its not so easy. Its a full on downward spiral.

[BigThinker]

I know Im extremly down lately, Im venting, hoping I will tucker myself out, hoping it will pass, but after having to stop my fin and realizing there is nothing else I can do Ive hit bottom.

Ive lost all personal choice. My looks where the one thing I was always happy with myself about and they are gone. My dimwit bro who did nothing but goof his entire life off gets his choice, and gets to live a genuinely exciting and promiscuous life.... but hey living vicariously through your younger brother is always fun too right........ right..... uck someone hit me with their car please.

You've given up the choice to make personal choices. There's things you could do to better yourself.

also its hard to accomplish anything at work when you use your 8 hours trying to scour the internet for anything resembling a cure.

Takes about 20 minutes of googling to know what treatments options there are. Might as well forget about it and get consumed by your life in a positive way.

[swingline747]

There's things you could do to better yourself.

Also I have tried new things and actively trying.
I have been trying to get into day trading and stock options. I have tons of books and online subscriptions. But again I sit down to read or go online to research and then BAM, 10 seconds in Im looking up hair loss stuff.

Trust me Im trying but its tough.

[yeahyeahyeah]

Also I have tried new things and actively trying.
I have been trying to get into day trading and stock options. I have tons of books and online subscriptions. But again I sit down to read or go online to research and then BAM, 10 seconds in Im looking up hair loss stuff.

Trust me Im trying but its tough.

Easier said then done, but you might have to accept that you are losing hair. Only then you can be free as you will think about it less.

[swingline747]

Easier said then done, but you might have to accept that you are losing hair. Only then you can be free as you will think about it less.

Went to my second HT consult and really liked this center so far. Have another one this Thurs.
I can accept yes or try to do something, anything. Its really ducky I don't respond to minox and still after like 3 or 4 months off fin still have sides, so this is really my last avenue.
This doctor also sells a topical fin but I have to research it more. He said it shouldn't give me the sides but when I started mentioning the sides I experienced he was stumped and my consult turned into a turn and cough physical lol, no lie.
7k is the round about in cost it seems.

[DannyBoyy7]

Easier said then done indeed thankfully i had the "**** it" attitude in the end what stopped me worrying i was about 18 at the time...my hair wasnt the worst at this point my hair receded and my hair was thin at the front but i still had lots of hair and it still grew while these days it dont...it is hard but in the end you will come to terms with it unless there is a cure you have no choice but to it is pointless worrying over things you cant change no matter how bad it is.

[swingline747]

Easier said then done indeed thankfully i had the "**** it" attitude in the end what stopped me worrying i was about 18 at the time...my hair wasnt the worst at this point my hair receded and my hair was thin at the front but i still had lots of hair and it still grew while these days it dont...it is hard but in the end you will come to terms with it unless there is a cure you have no choice but to it is pointless worrying over things you cant change no matter how bad it is.

as long as my damn brother is alive running around with a full head of hair it will always consume me. If he had my hair line it wouldnt bother me half as much.
But until then I will fight it. I have no kids and no real dependents so spending the money on a HT is just me getting past being cheap.

[clandestine]

Went to my second HT consult and really liked this center so far. Have another one this Thurs.
I can accept yes or try to do something, anything. Its really ducky I don't respond to minox and still after like 3 or 4 months off fin still have sides, so this is really my last avenue.
This doctor also sells a topical fin but I have to research it more. He said it shouldn't give me the sides but when I started mentioning the sides I experienced he was stumped and my consult turned into a turn and cough physical lol, no lie.
7k is the round about in cost it seems.

Why would you get an HT if you can't tolerate fin?

Wouldn't you prefer to be on an anti androgen?

[35YrsAfter]

as long as my damn brother is alive running around with a full head of hair it will always consume me. If he had my hair line it wouldnt bother me half as much.
But until then I will fight it. I have no kids and no real dependents so spending the money on a HT is just me getting past being cheap.

My brother lost his hair 10 years after I did. His went fast. When I was in my 20s, I thought he escaped the hair loss gene.

35YrsAfter also posts as CITNews and works at Dr. Cole's office
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[fred970]

Why would you get an HT if you can't tolerate fin?

Wouldn't you prefer to be on an anti androgen?

Because he can't tolerate fin.

[jpm]

Good luck if youre balding before college evens starts and you lose tons of potential in terms of your career.

Bald men get paid less and dont receive the same positions z fact

Obviously I can't speak for everyone. However, I work for a £1billion turnover company and about 70% of our directors and regional directors suffer some form of hairloss and about 40% are NW 5 or more.

4 of our regional directors are in their mid to late 30s and are slick bald!!

So from a personal perspective baldness does not hold your career back! If you go with the mentality that 'baldness is holding back my career' - then it's your attitude that is holding you back, not the amount of hair on your head!!!

[UK_]

God the subject content of this forum is getting so repetitive.

[jpm]

God the subject content of this forum is getting so repetitive.

Its what happens when there are so few new developments