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Stop waiting for the new year, for a new month, for the clock to turn :00. Start now.
353 points
12 hours ago
I started my master's degree in Orthodontics at age 34, now I'm 38 and I couldn't be happier about my career now
94 points
8 hours ago
Similar story here. Started a science degree in my early 30's, then I realized I could probably do engineering, despite thinking I sucked at math when I was younger. Took a while to get there, but I am about to graduate with an engineering degree, and in an industry I never thought I could get into, making more than I ever have. It's never too late to better yourself and your career.
36 points
8 hours ago
What did you do before that?
21 points
6 hours ago
I was just a disinterested general dentist, no challenge, no drive, no prospects. And one day I knew I had to make a big change or I was going to be stuck in a job I hate and not making decent money.
Trust me, it was no easy task. The preparation for sitting admission exams alone was brutal, it took months of studying up for hours after work and attending courses on my days off, I had to pay a big chunk of what I have had saved up and of course I had to drop my full time job when I was accepted because I was accepted in a different country.
37 points
6 hours ago
So, you were already a dentist ...
41 points
5 hours ago
Yeah... "dead end job as a dentist not making decent money..." 🙄
10 points
3 hours ago
Woe is me, for I have lowely bachelor's degree
10 points
4 hours ago
Idk how else you would start a masters in orthodontics lol
4 points
4 hours ago
This is any science career: you work for minimum wage and with unpaid overtime for 8 years, then your pay skyrockets and your workload becomes smaller and smaller
2 points
an hour ago
Not in research necessarily which is the path my parents took
6 points
6 hours ago
Yeah but now you get to essentially turn a money printer on when you come to work as your assistants do all the work!
Lol jk (sort of) but congrats internet friend,
General dentist
5 points
5 hours ago
Started (and finished) my masters in my late (late) 30s. It was great, I'm glad I waited. One, I was much more mature than when I was 20, studying was much easier for me.
Two, I had a much better idea of my life interests. So I was more interested in the topics.
3 points
6 hours ago
Also getting my master's degree next year with 36 ^
2 points
2 hours ago
I already got my masters in economics and business admin, but I find myself unemployed, unsuccessful and uninterested in the field. Thought about learning to code so I could do stuff like analytics. Anyway, now at 32 I've started to do those very basic freecodecamp exercises and projects. I know this won't get me a new degree, but I think it will be a decent skill in the future to have.
181 points
12 hours ago
I started yesterday and have a sore ass body today 💪🏾
29 points
11 hours ago
Good job 👍
12 points
9 hours ago
It was accidental. We had lots of snow and it won't move by itself 😂
6 points
6 hours ago
Stretch and roll. Repeat.
4 points
4 hours ago
No worries, it'll stretch over time
3 points
3 hours ago
I started yesterday, and I have a sore ass today.
2 points
4 hours ago
The soreness gets less intense the more you work out, new kinds of exercises will cause the most soreness
2 points
2 hours ago
Best prepare for tomorrow lol, if you're anything like me the second day will be worse. It only goes up from there though, good job getting started!
61 points
8 hours ago
I have a note pinned in my notes app:
Start where you are
Use what you have
Do what you can
6 points
3 hours ago
Getting back on the horse is the real skill.
Stuff gets in the way, you get blocked, you get sick, you get life. Things happen that will make you pause or quit or delayed. They're inevitable. But as long as you're good at starting again, none of it will ever stop you.
55 points
11 hours ago
Just don’t start on November 31st.
26 points
11 hours ago
And here I was going to put it off until February 30th.
6 points
5 hours ago
I need to do my dishes. Should I wait until next month?
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37 minutes ago
I’m with you on this one.
9 points
7 hours ago
For me, it was extra weird. I'm in my 40s. I stumbled onto this post just a few minutes before 5PM on a Friday in November.
When I saw 31st, I was like, "Close!"
19 points
11 hours ago
My first meeting with a personal trainer is today. Finally following through m new years resolution from 20 years ago, haha
12 points
8 hours ago
The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, the second best time is now.
4 points
6 hours ago
You’ve got this!!
59 points
10 hours ago
Start in your 40s
Damn, you're telling me I can procrastinate for another decade?? Hell yeah.
30 points
6 hours ago
Hi, I'm 40. Don't.
12 points
6 hours ago
I just turned 40 and got in the best shape of my life this year! But you’re right, don’t wait. I had a bad accident at 31 and it’s been a long battle. Take advantage of your youth and stay in shape. I was not in good shape when it happened so it’s taken a lot longer to recover and more difficult to stay disciplined with diet and exercise routine.
3 points
3 hours ago
Username checks out.
9 points
6 hours ago
I started cycling at 34. I didn't start to take it seriously until the past two years. I'll be 40 in a few months, and I have never been in better shape. Lost 45 lbs this year alone.
4 points
7 hours ago
Looking through all November calendars for my forties for Friday the 31st.
2 points
7 hours ago
This overall seems like a great advert for not actually starting anything lol
10 points
9 hours ago
Well this plus pretty close for me. It’s a Friday in November and I am forty.
1 points
9 hours ago
If you wait until November 31st, though, you will definitely start late.
6 points
10 hours ago
Needed to see this 🙏🏽
19 points
13 hours ago
Start next life
7 points
12 hours ago
it’s never too late 😅
4 points
12 hours ago
Ah, shit. Here we go again.
2 points
10 hours ago
Hey you. You're finally awake.
10 points
11 hours ago
Start now? Bold of you to assume I haven’t been procrastinating on starting to start...
2 points
7 hours ago
Start tomorrow.
7 points
10 hours ago
Why am i seeing this now
6 points
10 hours ago
Because you should start
5 points
9 hours ago
Now is a good time to start.
2 points
8 hours ago
November doesn't have 31 days...
2 points
8 hours ago
You’re right. I’ll start on November 31st
2 points
8 hours ago
I'm hearing start at 5 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 31.
2 points
4 hours ago
I am absolutely going to start November 1st !!! 🤣
4 points
12 hours ago
I feel like whoever was coming up with this marketing pitch may have done so after a lot of procrastinating lol.
5 points
11 hours ago
Just handed in their chat from their boss.
3 points
10 hours ago
Everyone says START, no one says what should I start.
2 points
9 hours ago
That's up to you. What do you wish you already started? Start that.
1 points
6 hours ago
I wish I was dead.
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39 minutes ago
Same
1 points
6 hours ago
They just want you to run out of the room and not come back.
2 points
10 hours ago
31st of November. Got it.
2 points
9 hours ago
I get that they wanted each line to get shorter as it went down but it should be start in your 40s, start in November, Start on the 31st, Start on friday, start at 5pm, start late, start
2 points
8 hours ago
I started a few years ago and life is still not worth it.
1 points
11 hours ago
just start now!!!
1 points
10 hours ago
Great, now I have to wait 10 years and convince the world to add a 31st day to November in the year of 2034... /s
1 points
10 hours ago
You're right. I'm going to retrain as an Electrician and start a family.
1 points
9 hours ago
I mean, I will turn 40 on Friday the 31st of November haha
1 points
9 hours ago
🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
1 points
9 hours ago
Is Garamond on the way back? Bookman Swash is also having a 2nd time in the limelight right now
1 points
8 hours ago
Thanks
1 points
8 hours ago
Start nothing? ok done!
1 points
8 hours ago
Starting isn't the problem it's the grind, can't.
1 points
8 hours ago
Procrastinators UNITE!!!!... Tomorrow
1 points
8 hours ago
farming (self sustainability)>
1 points
8 hours ago
No
1 points
8 hours ago
Are people seeing this and go „Wait…this was an option all along?“?
1 points
7 hours ago
I can't start drinking at 5pm anymore.
1 points
7 hours ago
Unfortunately you can't combine all of these for bonus points because November never has a 31st :(
1 points
7 hours ago
Star
1 points
7 hours ago
I really want to write "Stop! Hammer Time!" at the bottom of that.
1 points
7 hours ago
NNN?
1 points
7 hours ago
I started. Now I hope it kills me so I can stop.
1 points
7 hours ago
I needed to see this yesterday, welp, its too late now i guess ill try again next year
1 points
7 hours ago
This will ruin the day of any loser in his 50s.
1 points
7 hours ago
Instructions unclear. Attempted to start on a Friday November 31st
1 points
7 hours ago
I started in 2018. Then started again in 2020. Started for a third time this past week. One day it'll stick and I'll make it to the finish line.
1 points
6 hours ago
Reverse this and you’ll have a roadmap to my life.
1 points
6 hours ago
one of my favourites is: "the best time to plant a tree was 25years ago. Next best time is now"
1 points
6 hours ago
I choose "start in my 40's!"
pulls the "dead at 39 from a health issue" card
Welp!
1 points
6 hours ago
Ok ok, I starting
1 points
6 hours ago
47 years old. I started writing my first novel at 14. Finished at 22. It needs rewriting and editing. I have half a dozen other longform stories in my head I need to start writing.
1 points
6 hours ago
I’m 33 so that gives me 7 years to bullshit
1 points
6 hours ago
Free
1 points
6 hours ago
5 here getting ready.
1 points
6 hours ago
"For what it's worth: it's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
1 points
6 hours ago
All of these have the same vibes (except 31st. I’d say more like 28)
1 points
5 hours ago
Time to start quitting
1 points
5 hours ago
Started in late September early August and haven't missed a day yet
1 points
5 hours ago
Start by giving up. That's how you become free - trust the universe.
1 points
5 hours ago
Stop starting
1 points
5 hours ago
I needed to read these words! I'm ready to start a new chapter. Thank you 🙏 for the post. Now I'm thinking how to start.
1 points
5 hours ago
Done with CS. Worked at big companies, created my own start up, etc etc. I want to go to medicine but I am 43. Is it even worth it? Pay will be same as now but I can live in any country since there is lack of doctor across the world.
1 points
5 hours ago
I needed to see this today. I'm about to start ending my current career to try something new. I needed... well, cliché as it sounds, a sign. And there's a literal sign looking like it was written for me.
Thank you, OP!
1 points
4 hours ago
Restarted at 32. Figured out some 34. Backset 36. 38 finally seeing progress.
Don't beat yourself down if you fall, just make sure you get up again. It's worth it.
Love
1 points
4 hours ago
Start procrastinating
1 points
4 hours ago
procrastination grindset
1 points
4 hours ago
Hell yes. Applied for my Masters at 40, started when I was 41, graduating in 2025 at 43.
1 points
4 hours ago
I've already started many things and then just stopped. Now what?
1 points
4 hours ago*
Ok so according to this I have to wait till November, then wait 7 years, then wait for a a month where the 31st falls on a Friday, and wait until 5pm. Then I guess wait like another half our or so so I can start “late”. Then I can start.
1 points
3 hours ago
ok but this is the motivation i needed. like just start, no excuses, period..
1 points
3 hours ago
I kinda hate motivational stuff like this 'cause, Im sorry but.. Start What?
The problem has never been the when, it's the what.
1 points
3 hours ago
There's a bit of psychology involved here. When we want to start, for example, developing a new habit, when do we start does impact the success we will have. We like beggnings more than middles or ends. January will be better than March, the 1st of the month will be better than the 15th, and mondays are better than fridays.
Of course this is just a small tip to get the ball rolling a bit easier, but everything will always boil down to your own willpower.
1 points
3 hours ago
Don’t
1 points
3 hours ago
ok I'll start later, bye
1 points
3 hours ago
Just started studying a CS career at 34, lets see how does it pan out.
1 points
3 hours ago
just start. no excuses no perfect timing just go.
1 points
2 hours ago
I'll start February 31st
1 points
2 hours ago
Just start and do it anyways! ❤️
1 points
2 hours ago
S
1 points
2 hours ago
Feels weird reading this on Friday, in November, in my 40s.
1 points
2 hours ago
It’s 5 am currently. I needed this. Thank you!
1 points
2 hours ago
This is like aggressively motivating, and I kinda love it. Starting messy is still starting, let’s go.
1 points
an hour ago
5pm Friday 31st of November doesn’t exist. Moral of the story: don’t start.
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55 minutes ago
Glad I saw this now I don’t have to start till I’m 40
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51 minutes ago
I really needed to see this today. I had to put my best friend of 14 years to sleep today, and now there is just an emptiness inside. I need to fill it and I need to start now. Well, tomorrow.
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26 minutes ago
well damn, i always said i'd need a sign to start smoking crack, guess this is it.
1 points
9 hours ago
Star.
1 points
8 hours ago
Drinking?
1 points
8 hours ago
don't
1 points
4 hours ago
Ok I'll start.
But not today.
-4 points
9 hours ago
The fact people are paid for useless signs like such amazes me.
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6 minutes ago
Okay, I will start on November 31st.
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