Anyone end up going full time much earlier than you thought?

[Stephanie_b]

Just wondering, because I was planning on doing that in around a year.  But, I'm becoming to noticeable now (in many ways  ).   Don't think I have anywhere near a year before I need to go full time.

[Alexis]

Likewise. Some of the changes are interesting to explain. I thought I'd take more time, but really for my own sake I find I'm wanting to go full time really in the near(er) future

[Constance]

I started HRT in June 2011 and was planning on starting RLE going full time in January 2012. Instead, I went full time in September.

For me, it wasn't so much that I was starting to become visibly different, but because I could no longer handle being in a male presentation by default. So, I started full time 3 months earlier than I originally planned.

[Erin H]

Yep, I was going to go full time when I was in my second year of uni, but ended up going full time the first day I got there. I wasn't even on hormones either.

[noleen111]

I went full time on the same day as I started HRT...

[Stephanie_b]

Oh, okay thanks for the replies.  I would love to do it now; go full time.  I just can't afford to yet because financially I'm having it rough....

Buy the time I have everything I need to be able to go full time people are going to gawk at me everywhere I go...lol.  at least I think they will.  That's not what I really want

[JoanneB]

Oh, okay thanks for the replies.  I would love to do it now; go full time.  I just can't afford to yet because financially I'm having it rough....

Buy the time I have everything I need to be able to go full time people are going to gawk at me everywhere I go...lol.  at least I think they will.  That's not what I really want

I would love to go full-time period, but cannot for the same reason. But as the weeks and months pass by switching back to guy mode on Monday mornings becomes ever more painful.

You are certainly financially much better off waiting as long as you can. Once you go full-time there is no saying how long you'll have a job. Having been in upper management, there is always a way to get rid of someone.

People see what they want to see. Since they are used to seeing you as male that is the image. I know this is hard to do when you finally are becoming proud of your body and being the real you. The trick is to try to look like a guy. and especially dress like one (On the outside of course). That means if you have long hair, it is greasy looking and tied back. Lack of facial or arm hair no one will notice. Same for slightly long nails. The worse is probably a sudden change in your eyebrows. However I figure that by now no bushy uni-brow for you.

I wouldn't worry too much about gawking. Just keep on pretending to be a guy at work. It's easy and you have many years of experience doing that successfully. But it is painfull. A woman in my TG group occasionally gives me that I've been there before all knowing look when I talk about it. Sometimes she will even say it; "At the rate you're going you're not....." Oh how I wish most days I could

[Tyler]

I ended up going full time when I was sixteen, before I had really started hormones or anything of the sort. Worked out great for me.

[Kadri]

Oh, okay thanks for the replies.  I would love to do it now; go full time.  I just can't afford to yet because financially I'm having it rough....

Yes...I was surprised at just how much it cost to buy a whole wardrobe (can't say "replace" because my male wardrobe consisted of very little.

For me, it wasn't so much that I was starting to become visibly different, but because I could no longer handle being in a male presentation by default. So, I started full time 3 months earlier than I originally planned.

This was the same for me, I started feeling self-conscious and nervous as a man, and hated having to switch back into male speech mode and body language. I was originally even going to put off starting hormones so that my grandmother wouldn't notice any difference when she came to visit in September 2011, but it all got too much and i was on them by June! Before then I had been going out everywhere in Cathy mode everywhere except for the building where I worked and when I needed to grow a beard for electrolysis. Going full-time was only a case of stopping going in male mode to these two places. 

[Nov413]

I ended up going full time when I was sixteen, before I had really started hormones or anything of the sort. Worked out great for me.

Did you take hormones shortly thereafter though?
Cause that's I'm kinda doing. Although I'm a little bit older than you were.

[Tyler]

Did you take hormones shortly thereafter though?
Cause that's I'm kinda doing. Although I'm a little bit older than you were.

Yes I started hormones when I was about 17

[Alainaluvsu]

I planned on going full time 2 years after hormones. I had a contingency plan written out for my therapist and everything. I ended up going full time about 8 months into HRT... pretty much the day after I got fired.

Everyone else pretty much determined when I went full time. I'd been getting ma'amed quite a bit the last few days before getting fired. Also, I was able to get financial aid from school which allowed me to live without a job for a while after getting fired. This let me take care of things like my name change. So basically the circumstances made it favorable to switch to full time despite my written out plans. After talking with my therapist he agreed it would be a smart thing to do!

[jainie marlena]

I planned on going full time 2 years after hormones. I had a contingency plan written out for my therapist and everything. I ended up going full time about 8 months into HRT... pretty much the day after I got fired.

Everyone else pretty much determined when I went full time. I'd been getting ma'amed quite a bit the last few days before getting fired. Also, I was able to get financial aid from school which allowed me to live without a job for a while after getting fired. This let me take care of things like my name change. So basically the circumstances made it favorable to switch to full time despite my written out plans. After talking with my therapist he agreed it would be a smart thing to do!

starnge how you go from taking your time to being full time. scared the crap out of me at first but it is becoming secand to me.

[justmeinoz]

I was told it would take about 4 or 5 weeks for my name change to go through, but the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registry moved a lot quicker and it was through in less than a week.  So I had to jump a bit early. All good though.

Karen.

[Noelle]

Originally I had planned to wait 2 years to go fulltime, well not really that specific amount of time, but I thought it would take me two years until i lost enough muscle and all hair was removed.

I wanted to seemlessly glide from one gender to the next, and planned to push being male as far as that shell could take me until I could bear it no longer and slipping into female would make more sense.

I can honestly say slipping from Male to Female never really makes sense. Even after surgeries, hair removal, I could have stayed like that forever and been treated like a man. But the Looks from people were getting stranger, and I was getting increasingly more uncomfortable. It was to the point when I was away from the world in girlmode i felt great, just like myself. But when I went out presenting as male it was pure hell, on the inside and out.

Well.. I got laid off, did i get laid off or fired for my appearance? My bosses are sticking to the "laid off" story, so be it.

Well, Fulltime came the following week. 1 year after starting HRT.

[Tristan]

its funny you should ask that. for me it was. i figured i would do ,my BA Dec 1 2011. and my FFS Feb middle part of the month, and then just wear jackets and no make up untill my birthday this July 18 and go full time then. na ah.lol   people kept calling me ms more and more even with the jacket on 3 weeks out of FFS. now im a little past 3 months and only get ms everywhere. its been fun jumping in. people at school did not even notice it was me when i first came back.

[Tristan]

Ha ive gotta reply to this thread because I was just thinking of this the other day! I started hormones this year (feb 15th 2012) and my "goal" was to go full time by the start of my college semester which is the last week of august 2012. After a month and a half on hormones, I bought a new warddrobe, a hair straightener, and a bunch of make up. When I was dressed in clothes that actually suited me, makeup that was put on relatively well (Ive been practicing since november!) and hair straightened, one look in the mirror is all it took to NEVER EVEN CONSIDER living a lie as a man anymore! Have been living as my true self ever since

tessaM that is great. isn't it funny how it just kind ofcreeps u on you and happens