I get a migraine: "I should consider disability. This is awful. How am I supposed to keep working? It's never going to end. I'm going to have to give up my pets."
I don't have a migraine: "I AM CURED!!! I should start a business!! I should go on a long run more often!! I should [Insert any other high functioning thing here] "
I can tell he's getting slower, but he still loves it!
I've always hit a wall at 5k. My legs would feel like bricks afterwards, even light jogs would cause my pulse to be deafening in my ears, and it would take days to recover.
I'd start to make progress with distance, then I'd have something medical pop up and have to recover. First, a hysterectomy. Then a blood clot. However the blood clot ended up being the smoking gun for why me, and especially my legs, always felt AWFUL after a 5k.
Turns out I had May-Thurner Syndrome. I was able to get stented. My pulse went away in my ears, but my legs still felt bad. Had to get the damaged vein from the blood clot ablated next, and.... that was it. Wall appears to be gone.
I have energy, recovering feels normal, 5ks are suddenly feeling easy...so I decided to try a 10k this weekend and I was going to finish no matter what, even if I had to limp.
I did it! It wasn't as fast as I'd like, and I had to stop and switch dogs out because they aren't used to anything but 5ks, but I'm super proud!
And also want to remind ya'll not to ignore things like leg heaviness like I did for 10 years 😜 plus I'm the only person in my group who runs and don't have anyone to share my progress with.
And I'm posting this is in the beginners club because I have no idea what I'm doing - I just run for my dogs, not really my fitness. It wasn't until I started feeling better that I started really caring about distance or time.
One of my favorite things to do is just chat with my LLMs about my silly ideas. I never intend to execute them, but Claude discovered for me that I actually meet the qualifications for one of the businesses ideas that I've talked about doing for a years now.
Oddly, my focus around the question was always centered around getting the qualifications required in higher regulation states. I never thought to check the one I live in already (🤦♀️ in my defense I've been trying to move away for years).
More than that, we discovered my city is severely lacking enforcement in this industry and it's under a \*federal decree\* to be better about it.
So it turns out I'm living in a particularly ideal place to execute said business, there aren't enough people to keep up with the demand, AND starting it will help me with my goals to move.
What's more, we discovered [city][service].com wasn't taken. [City][industry].com wasn't taken. So...I bought those domains and it was off to the races. LLC and EIN, and the best business plan I've ever read in my life established Saturday.
I finished the websites Sunday. I'm the first to show up on Google for that service on Monday. I'm utterly flabbergasted.
I had 15 clicks to the website on the first afternoon it was indexed by Google.
I just want to point out that what I do requires a STEM degree and past experience doing this thing and it's not something everyone can do, but it's required by the city by law to be done. This is a business that I have to physically show up for and have E&O and industry related insurance, and startup costs are going to run me \~$5k.
Here's why I'm scared.... it's all just done so well. I still have to to look for clients, but given the lack of people in the industry, it's going to be cake walk compared to the last time I tried something (the extremely over saturated world of real estate!). Claude isn't letting me make excuses, especially since it helped build everything so well. There is zero reason for it not working and not getting my first client.
Anyways, just wanted to share something that isn't the typical coding based startup (though we did build an app to make the actual work a breeze).
Funny enough, I've actually pitched this idea to firms in the industry in the past in the attempt to get myself a job in the state I'm trying to move to lol.
One of my favorite things to do is just chat with my LLMs about my silly ideas. I never intend to execute them, but Claude discovered for me that I actually meet the qualifications for one of the businesses ideas that I've talked about doing for a years now.
Oddly, my focus around the question was always centered around getting the qualifications required in higher regulation states. I never thought to check the one I live in already (🤦♀️ in my defense I've been trying to move away for years).
More than that, we discovered my city is severely lacking enforcement in this industry and it's under a *federal decree* to be better about it.
So it turns out I'm living in a particularly ideal place to execute said business, there aren't enough people to keep up with the demand, AND starting it will help me with my goals to move.
What's more, we discovered [city][service].com *wasn't taken*. [City][industry].com *wasn't taken*. So...I bought those domains and it was off to the races. LLC and EIN, and the best business plan I've ever read in my life established Saturday.
I finished the websites Sunday. I'm the first to show up on Google for that service on Monday. I'm utterly flabbergasted.
I had 15 clicks to the website on the first afternoon it was indexed by Google.
I just want to point out that what I do requires a STEM degree and past experience doing this thing and it's not something everyone can do, but it's required by the city by law to be done. This is a business that I have to physically show up for and have E&O and industry related insurance, and startup costs are going to run me ~$5k.
Here's why I'm scared.... it's all just done so well. I still have to to look for clients, but given the lack of people in the industry, it's going to be cake walk compared to the last time I tried something (the extremely over saturated world of real estate!). Claude isn't letting me make excuses, especially since it helped build everything so well. There is zero reason for it not working and not getting my first client.
Anyways, just wanted to share something that isn't the typical coding based startup (though we did build an app to make the actual work a breeze).
Funny enough, I've actually pitched this idea to firms in the industry in the past in the attempt to get myself a job in the state I'm trying to move to lol.
Edit: please stop torturing the RemindMe bot