What is your starting height for those who are definitely doing LL (Males)
just curious what is the starting height of the patients here who want to do LL, and have more or less made up their mind and got most of their finances ready, schedules,, etc
feel free to start a female thread 
God damn you must be really bored doing LL lmao. although im here at "work" 9-5 mon to fri reading reddit, surfing the web, and reading this all day.
Quote from: Moose on February 25, 2015, 08:28:45 PMGod damn you must be really bored doing LL lmao. although im here at "work" 9-5 mon to fri reading reddit, surfing the web, and reading this crap all day.
LOL! What's your job?
My starting height was 166 (at night). So, a little over 5'5". For me, 5'8" (which I'm pretty sure I am now) is all I ever wanted. I have many other things going for me, and no longer feel that my height cancels them all out.
Quote from: Taller on February 25, 2015, 08:57:48 PMLOL! What's your job?
My title says IT Engineer but basically im just the IT help support guy in a small office. Im pretty young just got out of college, no student loans, and saving for this expensive bull among other things. Literally half the crap here gets done really quick. As long as everything is functioning fine and everyone is honky doory i get to basically do what i want.
When in doubt with a problem in IT...Google it...
College was somewhat pointless but whatever i got my cool piece of paper.
Quote from: Moose on February 25, 2015, 10:33:11 PMMy title says IT Engineer but basically im just the IT help support guy in a small office. Im pretty young just got out of college, no student loans, and saving for this expensive bullcrap among other things. Literally half the crap here gets done really quick. As long as everything is functioning fine and everyone is honky doory i get to basically do what i want.
When in doubt with a problem in IT...Google it...
College was somewhat pointless but whatever i got my cool piece of paper.
Yeah it really blows how expensive LL is. Guichet was like 35%-40% of my cash savings. I still have a pretty solid cash savings for my age (not to mention a pretty nice retirement fund), but while I have zero debt, I don't own property.
My next project after I'm walking again is to start a new job search to help recoup faster some of what I lost on this ridiculously expensive surgery.
Quote from: YellowSpike on February 25, 2015, 10:55:06 PMYeah it really blows how expensive LL is. Guichet was like 35%-40% of my cash savings. I still have a pretty solid cash savings for my age (not to mention a pretty nice retirement fund), but while I have zero debt, I don't own property.
My next project after I'm walking again is to start a new job search to help recoup faster some of what I lost on this ridiculously expensive surgery.
im not sure how much you have in savings but im guessing its a quite bit of sum. I would personally invest in stock currently frontier communications (FTR growing faster than atnt and pays a 5% dividend annually) would be my go 2 stock along with Dave n Busters (PLAY doubled in stock just this past year since launched IPO and they continue to shell out more locations that make good profit).
Currently i have just starting to save (after i booked a trip to cancun next week and got a pretty big tax refund) but im trying to build enough assets to invest in SPOTIFY if it launches this year or next year into an IPO. I honestly believe its going to make BANK.
i should honestly be rich right now as my dad had 350k in stock investments but ignored me when i told him to invest in amazon ($26 a share) and netflix ($10 ending 2009-2010). Instead he kept dumping money into airline and bank stocks until you know 2008 crash happend >.> He currently has 100k in investments and still wont listen...instead telling me to go be my own man and make my own money (cant really blame him) so im like whatever okay (stubborn old bastard lol). If he listened though.... man oh man...one can only dream though lol.
Quote from: Moose on February 25, 2015, 11:03:19 PMim not sure how much you have in savings but im guessing its a quite bit of sum. I would personally invest in stock currently frontier communications (FTR) would be my go 2 stock along with Dave n Busters (PLAY).
Currently i have just starting to save (after i booked a trip to cancun next week and got a pretty big tax refund) but im trying to build enough assets to invest in SPOTIFY if it launches this year or next year into an IPO. I honestly believe its going to make BANK.
i should honestly be rich right now as my dad had 350k in stock investments but ignored me when i told him to invest in amazon ($26 a share) and netflix ($10 ending 2009-2010). Instead he kept dumping money into airline and bank stocks until you know 2008 crash happend >.> He currently has 100k in investments and still wont listen telling me to go be my own man and make my own money so im like whatever okay (stubborn old bastard lol) If he listened though.... man oh man...one can only dream though lol.
I don't invest in individual names, as I just don't have the time to follow news on them, earnings ratios, etc. So I just have my investment fund that's a fund of funds (and mostly domestic and foreign equities, since I'm still young). With what I earn, after expenses, I'm able to save about $2K a month as long as I'm smart about what I spend. That's how I was able to afford this surgery (though, I'm somewhat older than you). Others were like "dude, go buy a Mercedes instead," but I never cared about material stuff (Except, maybe, a house someday). I just wanted to be taller. Sucks to be a LOT poorer (and have to push back comfortably being able to buy property), but I had to do this.
Hope your stock picks work out for ya man!
agreed material stuff i dont really have a care for but knowing i can change my height? hmmm But honestly I also have the issue of if i had 52k to do internal with lets say birkhotlz should i wait another year and try to grow that investment or deplete my assets and get the surgery over with. The sooner the better. I have no clue though what i will do life is 2 unpredictable and interesting to have it all planned out.
Quote from: Moose on February 25, 2015, 11:10:42 PMagreed material stuff i dont really have a care for but knowing i can change my height? hmmm But honestly I also have the issue of if i had 52k to do internal with lets say birkhotlz should i wait another year and try to grow that investment or deplete my assets and get the surgery over with. The sooner the better. I have no clue though what i will do life is 2 unpredictable and interesting to have it all planned out.
If I were you, I'd do it as soon as you can comfortably afford it. I wish I had known about this when I was a few years younger (your age). You'll have more years to enjoy your new height and recoup what you spent.
I wasted almost a year going back and forth "am I really doing LL or not," and was in this horrible limbo. I didn't want to blow that kind of money (even though sitting in the bank, it wasn't making me happy), I didn't want the pain...but there was no way I could get the idea out of my mind, so I eventually changed my plans from doing it near where I live, and just did it in Europe last minute with Dr. Guichet. I think once I'm walking without crutches (hopefully within the next 2-3 weeks?) I'll be very happy with my decision.
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