Plus facial hair does make one look older, so FYI...Actually I am jealous, because @ 55, I still can't get more than a Ho Chi Minh beard, and BTW, my wife is from Viet Nam...

@Hannah Hammond  well I started at 18 with long hair  and smoked dope.. and I did very well in the industry.. so can you !!!!

And I just don't have that kind of scratch laying about (and oh yes, a baby on the way). 

With the status of the health care industry and baby boomers, I can see why your considering this.My parent was in a Residential Assisted Care facility for dementia, and cared till end of life.

And due to jobs and baby boomer generation retiring and moving to the affordable area by the masses, your losing out every day that goes by if you're not actively working to invest!

I found out I was having a kid 4 years ago and started growing my hair until my locs reached my neck.

I have a hair more than $5k to my name and this post has ideas in it to make that grow.

Are you prepared for the work, time, effort, sleepless nights, humility, and gray hair?!?!

Check it out for the van, Bill.My thing is the guys with the extravagant facial hair, the really big beards, talking about getting down and dirty in their own rehabs.

Right now it is white with baby blue accents.