r/GetMotivated • u/ellierwrites • Nov 22 '24
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Stop waiting for the new year, for a new month, for the clock to turn :00. Start now.
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u/Queen-of-meme Nov 22 '24
I started yesterday and have a sore ass body today 💪🏾
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u/TheThronglerReturns Nov 23 '24
The soreness gets less intense the more you work out, new kinds of exercises will cause the most soreness
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u/ryanertel Nov 23 '24
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!
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u/Queen-of-meme Nov 23 '24
I need to move my ass the second day. But I think a light walk outside is ok. It might be good to move a little carefully. I have planned a hot bath after if the pain has increased. Right now I'm covered in snake gel liniment and barely feel the pain.
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u/Yalla_3ad Nov 22 '24
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
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Nov 22 '24
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.
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u/street593 Nov 23 '24
What kind engineering and industry?
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Nov 23 '24
Industrial engineering, the mining industry.
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u/street593 Nov 23 '24
I'm considering going back to school for engineering. Can't decide which route to take.
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Nov 23 '24
The main advice would be to look for programs that are accredited, and online if possible so you can work while you take classes part time at your own pace. Don't take out loans if you don't have to, and try to get grants wherever possible. Online schools can be pretty affordable, at times a fraction of in person ones.
Here is the site for abet accredited programs, which is the official engineering accreditation organization:
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u/Moistened_Bink Nov 22 '24
What did you do before that?
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u/Yalla_3ad Nov 22 '24
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.
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u/mattyice522 Nov 22 '24
So, you were already a dentist ...
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u/AloofFloofy Nov 22 '24
Yeah... "dead end job as a dentist not making decent money..." 🙄
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u/Yalla_3ad Nov 23 '24
Well, being so not interested nor engaged into what I did for a living left little to no room for improvement and I had no motivation to get better at what I already knew since I simply hated the job.
And where I'm from, a General dentist doesn't really make that much money usually. Yes i won't be behind on rent but I won't be making as much as you think either. Especially considering I really hated the job so I wasn't eager to get better at it.
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u/AloofFloofy Nov 23 '24
Where do you practice? I would like to learn because I could very well have been wrong to assume dentists make a lot everywhere in the world. My Dad studied mechanical engineering in India back in the 70s when engineers and doctors both made the same kind of money (in India). And then when he came to the U.S. he realized doctors make significantly more than engineers and wished he had gone to medicine instead. Despite that, though, he had an incredibly successful career with a NASA contractor building modules that went up to the ISS. Anyway, I apologize for immediately assuming you'd be rich as a dentist, as you would be here in the U.S. I have a bachelors degree and make $20/hour with great benefits. It's still just barely enough to pay my rent and utilities.
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u/TheFuzzyFurry Nov 23 '24
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
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u/Yalla_3ad Nov 23 '24
Sorry, I thought that was implied when I said i got a master's degree in orthodontics. That's how higher education works.
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u/TheBestNarcissist Nov 22 '24
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
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u/Yalla_3ad Nov 23 '24
essentially turn a money printer on when you come to work
this part it true :)
as your assistants do all the work!
it is illegal where I'm from for assistants to do any work on the patient unfortunately. And TBH, I cannot count how many times I have changed my opinion on what to do in a case while doing the "grunt work" that assistants would usually be doing, so it's not all bad.
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u/eW4GJMqscYtbBkw9 Nov 22 '24
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.
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u/ovelanimimerkki Nov 23 '24
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.
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u/GreyCoatCourier Nov 23 '24
In the same boat I have a degree in finance and business but went back to school since I gave up looking for a job depressed and hopeless, now I'm debating chasing a degree in biophysics or switching to analytics anything but business can stand that, its comforting to know and see other people on a similar path as me I turn 30 in the summer and still don't have a clear job trajectory but I'm learning and trying to find what I'm passionate in
Also just got an adhd diagnosis so that awnsers why school was so fucking impossible in my early years.
I'm hanging onto hope.
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u/Mecha_Cthulhu Nov 22 '24
Just don’t start on November 31st.
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u/rabid_jackal Nov 22 '24
And here I was going to put it off until February 30th.
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u/Cocky0 Nov 22 '24
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!"
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u/Toothpikz Nov 22 '24
My first meeting with a personal trainer is today. Finally following through m new years resolution from 20 years ago, haha
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u/dorkyhippy1381 Nov 22 '24
The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago, the second best time is now.
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Nov 22 '24
Start in your 40s
Damn, you're telling me I can procrastinate for another decade?? Hell yeah.
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u/SMILESandREGRETS Nov 22 '24
Hi, I'm 40. Don't.
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u/Lachrondizzle23 Nov 22 '24
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.
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u/James-I-Mean-Jim Nov 23 '24
Username checks out.
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u/SMILESandREGRETS Nov 23 '24
So many regrets
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u/James-I-Mean-Jim Nov 23 '24
Second best time to plant a tree is today and all that (I try to tell myself as someone who is pushing 40 haha).
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u/Bosco215 Nov 22 '24
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.
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u/Flubert_Harnsworth Nov 22 '24
Well this plus pretty close for me. It’s a Friday in November and I am forty.
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u/Free_Possession_4482 Nov 22 '24
If you wait until November 31st, though, you will definitely start late.
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u/BirchWhisper Nov 22 '24
Start now? Bold of you to assume I haven’t been procrastinating on starting to start...
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u/Longjumping-Cake3056 Nov 23 '24
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.
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u/toofatandcrazy Nov 23 '24
ok but this is the motivation i needed. like just start, no excuses, period..
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u/Aridez Nov 23 '24
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.
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u/AyaLynn94 Nov 23 '24
Thank you, I did. Just last month. I am currently 30- just starting college. Gonna get my BA in political science. A heavy undertaking when I don’t have the money to support it and I will be paying off the loans for a while. But I’m ready.
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u/flippingcoin Nov 22 '24
I feel like whoever was coming up with this marketing pitch may have done so after a lot of procrastinating lol.
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u/fingweirdo Nov 22 '24
Everyone says START, no one says what should I start.
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u/liamoj97 Nov 22 '24
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
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u/WellTrained_Monkey Nov 22 '24
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
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Nov 22 '24
Is Garamond on the way back? Bookman Swash is also having a 2nd time in the limelight right now
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u/frostninja23 Nov 22 '24
Unfortunately you can't combine all of these for bonus points because November never has a 31st :(
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u/MandyxLola Nov 22 '24
I needed to see this yesterday, welp, its too late now i guess ill try again next year
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u/Ordinii Nov 22 '24
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.
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u/DangerousArea1427 Nov 22 '24
one of my favourites is: "the best time to plant a tree was 25years ago. Next best time is now"
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u/Its_D_youtube Nov 22 '24
I choose "start in my 40's!"
pulls the "dead at 39 from a health issue" card
Welp!
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u/BowsersMuskyBallsack Nov 22 '24
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.
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u/TomCruisesZombie Nov 22 '24
"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
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u/Lord-of-Leviathans Nov 22 '24
All of these have the same vibes (except 31st. I’d say more like 28)
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u/MightyOleAmerika Nov 23 '24
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.
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u/Revolutionary_Pool56 Nov 23 '24
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!
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u/DisturbinglyAccurate Nov 23 '24
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
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u/kimhartley Nov 23 '24
Hell yes. Applied for my Masters at 40, started when I was 41, graduating in 2025 at 43.
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u/consumeshroomz Nov 23 '24 edited Nov 23 '24
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.
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u/Additional_Remove_70 Nov 23 '24
I kinda hate motivational stuff like this 'cause, Im sorry but.. Start What?
The problem has never been the when, it's the what.
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u/MissedYourJoke Nov 23 '24
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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u/GuestAggravating9381 Nov 23 '24
well damn, i always said i'd need a sign to start smoking crack, guess this is it.
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u/AshyyyBoiii Nov 23 '24
Honestly, the is the start hardest part, so just do it whenever. Love this vibe!
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u/fernatic19 Nov 23 '24
Am I the only one that reads this as demotivating? It reads to me as saying it doesn't matter, do it later.
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u/Rattlechad Nov 23 '24
Choose life Choose expensive trips on holiday you can pay off with your credit card Choose the comfort meal for the tenth time this week Choose life
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u/TheRealJakay Nov 23 '24
I started on a Friday, at 5 pm, in November, in my 40s. But November only has 30 days so I gave up.
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u/Aftermathemetician Nov 23 '24
I’ve been waiting for 5PM on the 31st of November to get started, and it feels like I’ve been waiting too long.
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u/Competitive-Alarm517 Nov 23 '24
Honestly starting is the hardest part, the rest of it is the fun part
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u/ZitOnSocietysAss Nov 22 '24
I have a note pinned in my notes app:
Start where you are
Use what you have
Do what you can