I was thinking about adding some tongue twisters in to my voice training routine, since they’ll have different sets of sounds than what I normally use in conversation. Here’s one for each day of the next week.
Monday
To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, In a pestilential prison, with a lifelong lock, Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock, From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block
Tuesday
Six sick hicks nick six slick bricks with picks and sticks
Wednesday
Fred fed Ted bread and Ted fed Fred bread
Thursday
A blanched black bug bleeds black blood but what color blood does a bland blue bug bleed?
Friday
The great Greek grape growers grow great Greek grapes
Saturday
If you must cross a coarse cross cow across a crowded cow crossing, cross the cross coarse cow across the crowded cow crossing carefully
Sunday
Luke’s duck likes lakes. Luke Luck licks lakes. Luke’s duck licks lakes. Duck takes licks in lakes Luke Luck likes
If you want something normal sounding to say instead, try the Harvard Sentences. Or read a book to someone!
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I don’t really know what I can do to mitigate it. I’ve thought of getting some kind of med tech cert or something. I don’t know what my options really are- I’d probably want it in a year. But I’m so depressed I don’t know if I can actually complete it. I’ve failed plenty of classes because of that. I have no idea how to mitigate the difficulty of finding a new job.
They are definitely not going to be an option to live with I don’t think. I am waiting as long as possible. But I’m already on E. I guess it all depends on when I get tits. Yes, and the cost of moving/etc. I have no other reason to be here. I have savings I can dip into (although I do want to hold as much as possible for surgery), but I really don’t want to move out somewhere, spend all my savings, and have to move back in with them or be homeless or whatever.
But how does that work if I’m not ready :doomjak: like literally. How?
tysm for talking with me. I appreciate it so much. I have felt very alone
I’ll be the first to admit this advice is less than tremendous. I’m not sure there’s anything that helpful I can say, really. But at least you don’t have to change anything right away.
If you dress right, you can make this much less obvious to the casual observer.
How it works is that it sucks, unfortunately. Trans people are disproportionately impoverished, which I’m sure isn’t news.
I’m not saying you need to have any answers right now - just begin figuring out what all the questions are. You don’t need to have the money to move, but figure out how much you might need. You don’t need to get a degree tomorrow, but start thinking about what degree you might want to persue in the future. You see where I’m going with this.
It’s so easy for us to feel alone. I’m sorry you don’t have someone to help you through this in person.
It’d be cool if you can come up to my city in Canada and study med tech.
What do I need to go up there and study for it? Guessing a visa and money, do you know what that process is like?
You would need a temporary resident status specifically a Study Permit.
You would apply to the school, then later when applying for your study permit you will show them the acceptance letter (and other stuff). You need money, but dark secret Canadian immigration secret is they only check financial capability at around the GDP per capital of Mexico and below. How do I know? I worked at IRCC and thats the official direction.
You do not need a passport, just proof of American citizenship. Regardless, it might be easier to have one now even if you have to boymode for it right now. You will apply once a year for every year you’re in school, it will cover that year. The cost is about $300 CAD to apply.
The very first step is picking a school and looking at requirements and applications, deciding what you want to study. There’s lots of little technical schools all over Canada if your heart says it wants you to do med tech - SAIT and NAIT in Alberta, BCIT (Burnaby in BC) all have very good reputations in the west. Or Ontario has a lot too.
If/when you get a study permit, youd be able to enter Canada as typical and the school should be able to help you sort out any other requirements on their end. Typically you can work part time on campus with a study permit (usually some food service or retail job), I think up to 20 hours a week? But they’ve been looser about that, starting to be more strict.
Canadian medtech skills and education can transfer back to the US if thats what you want. Theres a different liscencing/exam thing for the US called ASCP? At worst youd just write that exam later if you want to go back across the border after a couple years. The old system was that you could get a PGWP (post grad work permit) for as many years as you studied more or less automatically, this would be an open work permit you can go anywhere with. Now you might only be able to do it with a job offer somewhere critical - lab techs are critical enough that theyd absolutely consider your PGWP application.
I’m not the one you’re replying to but I’m saving this because I’m right on the border of Canada and really dislike the US (although Canada is no haven either, it feels less… hectic) and I’ve also wanted to work in healthcare for a while.
Lab tech sounds like a great job for me, but does I require the rigorous med school training? I don’t think I can do 4 (?)years med school + residency + deal with the patients as well as blood and injuries (samples are fine) and all the other stuff
Med tech school is typically 2 years, not a full bachelors. These are the people that do like labs and bloodwork and stool sample and so on. Sometimes its 2.5 years. Usually half a year to a full year will be in clinicals (youd be a student but also doing the job more or less instead of class).
Wonderful information, thank you
Sorry for the late reply. Today was super busy. Thank you for all the information. I definitely intend on getting a passport while I can still boymode and haven’t changed any docs.
Maybe I’m looking at the wrong thing, I don’t know, but it looks really expensive. I guess I don’t know what I expected. My little heart just wants a job that doesn’t suck the soul out of my body and lets me rent my own place. Maybe some parts of healthcare could do that.
That’s really nice to know I could take a test and get my American license. And that lab tech is critical enough I could probably get a work permit in Canada. The way things are going I’d rather stay there if I was at all able to.
Depending on the school even international tuition in Canada can be cheaper than a school in the US with domestic tuition. Except for like in state community college or the in state public university. It helps that up here its a 2 year program and apparently in the US its often a full 4 year degree.
It is expensive still, youd obviously need loans and/or serious scholarships/grants. You can get loans to study aabroad. That tuition is just school costs, it doesnt cover housing food etc. But you could get in dorms, meet some people, be yourself.
Oh really? I guess school is just expensive idk. That’s good to know if I was going to do school here then. May as well be in Canada and experience that. Doing something that’s only 2 years feels a lot more achievable to me. And yea I guess I could probably get loans to go internationally. I hadn’t thought about that being possible I guess.
god
definitely crying tonight… Thank you again terminal.
It doesn’t, at least not in the way you think. I still get absolutely misgendered despite having fairly obvious tits. Cis people will think you gained weight. You could easily go for a year, or even 2 depending on your genetics and diet (if you cut down on your weight, your boobs will grow slower. It will take a few years for your fat distribution to fully shift). Honestly you might even be able to boymod for longer than 3 years.
So you have plenty of time to sort out your situation.
As for your education, I unfortunately can’t give any advice since I only know a bit about Europe.