I saw a posh house in Florida a few months ago for $700 a month. The whole house and yard space. 20 minutes from Miami. Weeks later I saw a one for $550 in North Carolina.
Well if you living in the expat areas yes.
Hong Kong would be more expensive than Manhattan and central London combined if you want to live in the western areas also.
I don't think more testosterone will help if you are sitting all day. You'd have to make up for all that sitting time with gym time otherwise even low dose testosterone will do nothing but help you gain hair and fat (well and some muscle even if you are sitting but it will probably be negligible). When I first got on testosterone I realized why most males always envied my ability to eat whatever I want without putting on body fat. That changed immediately, within a week I had to watch what I ate bc I noticed some fat building on my lower abdomen.
I'm sure whoever is prescribing you estrogen has told you that synthetic estrogen is incredibly hard on the liver. The reduced risk of you getting prostate cancer is as far as I understand it FAR outweighed by the likelihood that at some point you will have liver issues to deal with. Also, I am on TRT and this is somewhat anecdotal (although many 'bodybuilder' types that use testosterone support this) I have noticed the effects on skin mood and hair are stongly related to estrogen, prolactin, and progesterone levels (meaning they should be in the normal range for male or female depending on what your goal is wrt testosterone). I also agree with the commenter somewhere on here that mentioned he feels the 'roid-rage' when he is low. Also anecdotal but generally agreed upon by the community is that the mood swings come from actual 'swings' of testosterone (and bad moods are when you are low, they should call it roid-affection instead). FDA approved esthers in the US (for injection) do not allow precise daily control to mimic the natural cycle, so there can be some very minor mood changes throughout the week (my dr is open minded and lets me pin the cypionate twice weekly) but I would honestly suggest that your friend had some placebo effect goin on there. As for his 'back-ne', I would check my prolactin levels if I had bad acne on my back (sometimes I do get it, and the levels are always slightly elevated... what to do about it is another story).
Anyway, all due respect of course and I have much admiration of anyone who goes through such great lengths to 'be themselves' but please do make sure you are educated on the risks and minimizing them (I remember hearing it mentioned that the patches of estrogen are much easier on the liver than injections but that was from a tv show I think so take it with a grain of salt) I do believe that you are correct in saying >A significant portion of the benefits are from the estrogen, I just don't think you realize how much. As someone who lost a fair portion of my natural production almost instantly I can say with confidence that even if one were considering to transition to the fairer sex, losing your test without boosting the estrogen has pretty much NO positives except perhaps the reduced prostate cancer risk.
In which country is quarterly undecanoate typical? I know the US FDA hasn't approved it and here the standard esther and frequency of injection are cypionate and once per week, as far as I can tell.
There is no way google maps says that takes 3 hours, right now it shows 27min but obviously there is no traffic right now. In order for that trip to take 3 hours you would need a perfect storm of EXTREME traffic, zero knowledge of the city, and no gps to help you navigate. I would be astounded by those numbers too, but they aren't even close to accurate.
You're right, sorry. I was looking at the distance on Google maps and then the 3hrs OP had mentioned. I didn't even think to look at Google maps time, which presently states 30 minutes. Looking now at what I've written it's obvious I didn't word that how I intended it. Thanks for picking that up.
I actually have a product that I created and have been testing that has a bit of overlap with yours but I also think they would compliment each other really well. Is your linked in the one that says: Şu okulda öğrenci: Kafkas Üniversitesi? I'd like to try to connect.
I have found many more problem clients than decent ones on sites like these. When I do find a good one, I generally finish the work very quickly in order to impress them and it often turns out they only had a day or two of real work to get done. I usually get great feedback, but when I ask if there is any more work I get things like 'we are running out of runway, so just waiting for funding' and 'we got offers for funding we just didn't like the terms' (that "founder" squashed the project within weeks after not getting the offer he wanted which makes me wonder if he ever believed in his product at all) and I end up back searching for new clients and spending inordinate amounts of time finding worthwhile contracts. I have been trying to refocus to more word of mouth networking as it seems this brings much higher quality contracts. What does the HN community think?
Increase your rates. The people willing to pat well for your area ("well" may mean as low as $25 if you are in the Philippines of course) generally appreciate the value of good developers more than the people offering literally a couple of dollars per hour.
I had pretty much the same experience that you did. Odesk can offer good amount of work for someone just starting (many clients are willing to take risks on people with no rating in exchange of less wages) but once you've established yourself it is time to move out. One of the best ways to do that is to start working with principals directly. You've already done a bunch of work for a bunch of people. You know what they do , you know who they serve. All you got to do know is market to those people directly.
It is not as difficult as you might think. Extract a bunch of choicest testimonials and put them on your website along with a description of what you do. While this won't get you new clients(at least until you start optimizing for keywords) it will definitely make you more appealing to those who you market to directly and when they do background checks on who you are and what you do before giving you work. Treat your website as your "reputation certificate" :) If you design it well you can leave a good impression on those who come visit.
The hard part is marketing. If you work for people in the technology you should have pretty good response by sending them emails directly and if you do it right you can set up an interview or two with them. If these interviews convert to actual paid work this will be much more profitable and long lasting than the contracts you took on odesk 'cause of two simple reasons:
1. In the "real" world people are much more open to form alliances for mutual benefit. On internet they can say to themselves "meh we will find another. More from where he came!"
2. Network effects are much much stronger. Or maybe I should say "convertible". I have had this hunch that once you start to work in the "real" world more people know what you do and you do get more offers just because you "did work for that guy maybe you can help us as well". Odesk and other sites are localized closed market places where they want to keep the talent for themselves and do nothing that may help you grow. Which makes sense because it adds to their appeal when they get to say "you find this freelancer exclusively on odesk". But for you this is not good at all.
The transition can be rough. Be a bit careful. I made the mistake of permanently deleting my odesk account 'cause it was the first google result on my name and clients would not accept anything I charged in excess of that amount (a vicious cycle since I charged little on odesk so I could get more work and now I couldn't do anything about it). That meant that my source of guaranteed work was lost and well... dry spells are not fun :) If you can try to make the transition slowly so it does not hurt your income.
iirc it is based on whatever the irc considers fair market value for the service. I couldn't find the spot on irs.gov where I read that in the past but there is this link that gives an example and mentions FMV
Accessing all my mail is a tough sell but allowing you to delete and send email on my behalf requires a lot more trust than you have built up thus far. That isn't to say I don't think this looks really cool and like a good idea, but that I am disappointed I can't try it out.
Can anyone from conspire comment on why it needs more than read-only access to your mail? From reading the privacy policy I gather that the reason might be because they are trying to actually protect people's privacy by not sharing the email address of the person they are emailing on your behalf. I'm not sure though, and if it is actually sending an email from an account that you own I don't see how they can hide that from you. They could delete the sent message to do a basic cover up but (I think) anyone who really wanted to know could probably find out the last email that was sent from their account. Then again if the messages are sent using their service as a middleman (more likely imho) then I'm still stumped as to why they need more than 'read only' access to my email.
you don't need a CDL to drive a zipvan and they have a decent amount of space. They also include insurance and fuel although I haven't reread the TOS with this plan in mind, I think it might be acceptable.
OP if you want to get this going in manhattan get in touch.
