Going Bald at a Young Age

Alright this might be hard to write for me. I think I am starting to go bald. I am only 25 years old but I think it may be happening. I have had a widow's peak for several years now which has never really bothered me. I just figured I had a "mature" hairline. Tons of guys have them. No biggie. But a few months ago I sent a picture to my friends where the top of my head was visable. I sent it without even thinking about it. A few days later I am going through my phone's photos and I come across that photo I sent. I took a closer look at my head and saw that a patch near the crown of my head was a slighlty lighter brown than everywhere else. I quickly reached up and felt that the hair in a small patch (about 2 inches by 2 inches) was juuuust a little thinner than in other areas. Cue the 5 stages of grief. I thought "ok there was an article about how a side effect of covid was temporarily losing your hair. That must be it", and then looking up medicinal options to regrow hair and list of famous bald men. I don't want to do the whole medication thing and while nowadays hair transplants look really good I dont really want to go down that route. 

So here I am with a patch on the top of my head that is just ever so slightly thinner than the other areas of my head. Is in the end of the world? No. I am self concious of it? Yeah, maybe just a little. I am going to now buzz my head? Not until one of my friends points it out.

One thing that has done we some good is to look at those lists of famous bald men. Men who are still very good looking with a cue ball head or that classic Terry Bradshaw haircut (the same type that my dad sported). Guys like Jason Statham, The Rock, Stanley Tucci, Kobe Bryant, and more all rock the hell out of a bald head and no one thinks any less of them. Hell, even some women prefer a bald man.

Here is to hoping that I will be able to pull off the bald look if it comes to that one day. But until then I am going to keep my hair, keep on working out, and keep on rocking a short beard.   

Work

 Ok. This is about work. Career, occupation, calling, job, or whatever else you want to call it. I have a job and you (if anyone ever reads this) probably also have a job. I don't mind my job. It is not the best out there but it's certainly not the worst. I work from home 3-4 days a week and live only about a 20 minute bus ride from the office. A lot of busy work. But podcasts in the background or new music to listen to keeps my mind occupied even when I nothing more than a glorified monkey with a keyboard. There is still some resentment there, though. I think this is a normal feeling to have with any job. You hear about how these tech workers are making 200+ thousand a year and they say they only work about 3 hours per day. Meanwhile I am working 6+ hours every day making 28 dollars an hour. Or I see job openings within my organization for jobs that I know are a bunch of bullshit meetings and buzzwords making 100+ thousand a year. Its frustrating. I got a BA in college instead of a degree that could go more towards a high paying job. So now I have to work even harder to prove that I am a competent worker that you should pay X amount of dollars per hour. I am not saying that I am complaing about the pay for my job. It is about on par for what I think the work in the city I live in should pay. 

Now we come to the shit you see online. You see stories about people who are overemployed working 2 or 3 jobs bullshitting their way to making 300+ thousand a year by basically doing the bare minimum. So why I am here working harder than normal for a job that doesn't pay anywhere near 300 thousand? I don't know. So here is the plan: I am going to do the bare minimum. Fuck working extra hard. You know what I say? I say that the only reward hard work gets you is more work and no raise. So fuck working at a higher rate of speed on completing tasks when it results in the same salary as the shitbirds who slack all day. I am going to slow things down. Read more during work. Listen to more music during work. Workout more during work. I already am a fast worker. I'll turn down the speed 20% and it'll be all good. Slow it down just a little and fly under the radar. But of course I have a coworker getting a promotion so I will have to take over her responsibilities. Apparently it comes with a little bit of a raise so we'll see how that goes. 

On the bright side my first job after graduating during what I consider to be the worst time ever to graduate (May 2020) was paying me $18 per hour. Fuck you with that disrespectful pay. Now I am making $27.81 per hour and feel respected. Not like just some random employee that could be replaced in a heartbeat (even though I probably am). So heres to making $30 per hour and then $32 per hour and fuck it $45 per hour one day. Oh and I forgot to mention that I am teaching myself excel while on the clock. That is a fantastic hard skill to have and I think that it'll not only help me out profesionnaly but personally as well. Again, we'll see. Adios.