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house-broken bistre pit
  12/18/25
710K
Ruddy boistinker crackhouse
  12/18/25
lawyer?
house-broken bistre pit
  12/18/25
yea
Ruddy boistinker crackhouse
  12/18/25
Biglaw?
house-broken bistre pit
  12/18/25
Me: 842k Wife: 267K Including last year's bonus
burgundy concupiscible station old irish cottage
  12/18/25
Lawyers?
fragrant brass locus stain
  12/18/25
My wife is in-house and I lie on the internet
burgundy concupiscible station old irish cottage
  12/18/25
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Cordovan stag film
  12/18/25
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Hideous Elastic Band Internal Respiration
  12/19/25
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Mustard Aggressive Office Messiness
  12/19/25
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Self-absorbed market chad
  12/19/25
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bateful costumed den friendly grandma
  12/20/25
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pungent amethyst associate
  12/21/25
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milky hospital
  12/21/25
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razzle cheese-eating dragon stock car
  12/21/25
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khaki bat shit crazy plaza
  12/22/25
$350kish, maybe more depending on how collections come in ov...
Talented pale sneaky criminal
  12/18/25
Trash or legal fees?
house-broken bistre pit
  12/18/25
Picking up trash would be much more dignified
Talented pale sneaky criminal
  12/18/25
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Hideous Elastic Band Internal Respiration
  12/19/25
$130k in shitlaw
Marvelous gunner
  12/18/25
as a solo? associate? paralegal?
Harsh floppy indirect expression range
  12/18/25
AssociaTTTe
Marvelous gunner
  12/18/25
why dont you go solo?
house-broken bistre pit
  12/18/25
I thought shitlawyers made $60K in MFH
electric parlor filthpig
  12/19/25
Nigger voicemail$
Marvelous gunner
  12/19/25
A little over $300k as an in house fag. I'm pathetic and poo...
Vivacious base preventive strike
  12/18/25
When I was a young Inhousemo making $250k, I thought I was t...
Vivacious base preventive strike
  12/18/25
To be fair, I had a 180 billion lifestyle in my late 20s and...
Vivacious base preventive strike
  12/18/25
you should've lateraled to $750k 10-2 100% wfh in house ages...
Heady newt
  12/18/25
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Ruddy boistinker crackhouse
  12/18/25
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gold center jap
  12/19/25
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vigorous high-end boltzmann
  12/21/25
In house is the exit option. There are no exist options from...
Hideous Elastic Band Internal Respiration
  12/19/25
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charismatic mexican whorehouse
  12/19/25
Why is $300k paycheck to paycheck?
sadistic location
  12/19/25
Over $400k if you add wife. After tax income: ~200k H...
Vivacious base preventive strike
  12/19/25
You are doing better than paycheck to paycheck.
sadistic location
  12/19/25
you are retarded or lying because 400k with a family is not...
lime sinister twinkling uncleanness turdskin
  12/20/25
I had half my income withheld for taxes. I asked what the fu...
sadistic location
  12/21/25
286k so far. Prob will make another 15k. Wife 86k
seedy field
  12/18/25
Does wife's post-tax salary cover the costs of childcare and...
Hideous Elastic Band Internal Respiration
  12/19/25
PATRIARCHY!!! Of course it doesn’t.
Embarrassed to the bone swashbuckling resort fat ankles
  12/19/25
Oh. So why does she work?
Hideous Elastic Band Internal Respiration
  12/19/25
180k. worst year in total comp since pre covid
slippery national bbw
  12/18/25
don't you brag about being rich?
gold center jap
  12/19/25
sorry to hear it but props for your candor in a thread full ...
Laughsome native rigpig
  12/19/25
me: ~$400k wife: ~$325k but i was also laid off
nubile school volcanic crater
  12/18/25
if u want chandler to slap u with his dick just say so
Heady newt
  12/18/25
Very gauche to discuss. Any white people left on here?
Henna dysfunction
  12/18/25
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drab coldplay fan deer antler
  12/18/25
$790K. Wife made about $15K.
sadistic location
  12/18/25
Doing what, and why?
house-broken bistre pit
  12/18/25
I am atty.
sadistic location
  12/18/25
I know that, I meant your wife
house-broken bistre pit
  12/18/25
He's an attorney. What's so complicated?
Vivacious base preventive strike
  12/18/25
I understand that he's an attorney
motley house
  12/19/25
I understand that he's an attorney
motley house
  12/19/25
I understand that he's an attorney
Overrated Wagecucks
  12/21/25
He's an attorney. What's so complicated?
Jet lascivious lay
  12/23/25
I understand that he's an attorney
motley house
  12/23/25
Over 50k. Plus I got a $150 honorarium for a talk earlier th...
Effete citrine heaven
  12/18/25
I'd love to get an honorarium one day. Very prestigious.
Hideous Elastic Band Internal Respiration
  12/19/25
yup, I'd love to get an honorarium one day. Very prestigious...
Overrated Wagecucks
  12/21/25
You joke, but I'm unironically proud of my meagre token of p...
Effete citrine heaven
  12/21/25
I felt the same when I won a $100 poetry prize. In college. ...
sadistic location
  12/22/25
Lashing out because the board writ large is mocking you for ...
Effete citrine heaven
  12/22/25
? Largely? It’s five unmarried childless losers pissed...
sadistic location
  12/22/25
I was making fun of honaria. Whatever happened to him?
Overrated Wagecucks
  12/22/25
lol I make more money than lex tp
pungent amethyst associate
  12/21/25
Monkey driving a golf cart makes more money than that guy
sadistic location
  12/21/25
I feel safe in this subthread
hyperactive big casino
  12/22/25
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hyperactive big casino
  12/22/25
lex how’s your dating life? jw
hyperactive big casino
  12/22/25
I only respond to such queries in old fashioned SUMMON: thre...
Effete citrine heaven
  12/22/25
why are u dorks including ur wives' earnings
Heady newt
  12/18/25
Same reason why they included what their wives harvested in ...
drab coldplay fan deer antler
  12/18/25
i don't even know whether my wife has a job
Heady newt
  12/18/25
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Self-absorbed market chad
  12/19/25
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Hideous Elastic Band Internal Respiration
  12/19/25
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hyperactive big casino
  12/22/25
not enough.
gold center jap
  12/18/25
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Big-titted principal's office
  12/20/25
little under $6M
Trip circlehead forum
  12/18/25
MFCR. State occupation, thank.
Vivacious base preventive strike
  12/18/25
271K TOPS
burgundy concupiscible station old irish cottage
  12/18/25
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scarlet national security agency piazza
  12/18/25
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slippery national bbw
  12/18/25
sorry ur mad
Trip circlehead forum
  12/19/25
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Deranged jewess
  12/20/25
Six figures, champ.
Azure French Institution Weed Whacker
  12/18/25
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Cordovan stag film
  12/18/25
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gold center jap
  12/18/25
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black menage mood
  12/20/25
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razzle cheese-eating dragon stock car
  12/21/25
-$184K
multi-colored home
  12/18/25
I fail to see how this is relevant.
Soul-stirring orange parlour
  12/18/25
Pre tax or post tax? Including expected tax credits, debits,...
Out-of-control electric furnace church
  12/18/25
holy fuck how jewish are you
Mustard Aggressive Office Messiness
  12/19/25
low-200s
Cyan Codepig Mad Cow Disease
  12/18/25
0
Very Tactful Diverse Cruise Ship
  12/18/25
like 2 million
insane garrison
  12/18/25
$360k in tech
splenetic shrine
  12/19/25
Less than I want but way more than I deserve
Fiercely-loyal curious selfie pistol
  12/19/25
I value my wife’s admiration over tax advantages. The...
At-the-ready patrolman
  12/19/25
Shrew'd
Fiercely-loyal curious selfie pistol
  12/19/25
lol @ this flame. Women only care about what you can buy th...
khaki bat shit crazy plaza
  12/19/25
She sees the tax return but not the brokerage statement. Sh...
At-the-ready patrolman
  12/19/25
(guy playing the long game) at the same time, this is the s...
Laughsome native rigpig
  12/19/25
thank you
At-the-ready patrolman
  12/19/25
I mean, don't rule anything out, there's something to be sai...
Provocative magical nowag gaming laptop
  12/19/25
Who wants to pay off my house
duck-like international law enforcement agency
  12/19/25
negative money (lived off debt)
pink vibrant step-uncle's house
  12/19/25
~250, not bad but half as much as last year. :(
Ultramarine dilemma
  12/19/25
what happened
Mustard Aggressive Office Messiness
  12/19/25
i made a bunch of money off of JMIA last year. ironically if...
Ultramarine dilemma
  12/19/25
if there's one thing I've learned as a solo it's that annual...
Self-absorbed market chad
  12/19/25
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house-broken bistre pit
  12/19/25
Around 1.7 which is what I made last year. I'm starting to t...
frisky cobalt stead organic girlfriend
  12/19/25
$600k as solo lolyer.
charismatic mexican whorehouse
  12/19/25
Closer to a tenth of that for me. Nasty health problem decim...
Irradiated Philosopher-king Gas Station
  12/20/25
~$900k
Embarrassed to the bone swashbuckling resort fat ankles
  12/19/25
Paying tax on about $600K, but zero earned income.
shimmering hell lettuce
  12/19/25
Wow.
Big-titted principal's office
  12/19/25
Let me know what I can do to earn about $20k from you.
gold center jap
  12/19/25
How many blowjobs can I get for that?
shimmering hell lettuce
  12/19/25
well my regular price is $20 per nut but since you're buying...
gold center jap
  12/19/25
That 1/3 sounds disappointing.
shimmering hell lettuce
  12/19/25
lol
Dead flesh queen of the night
  12/19/25
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gold center jap
  12/22/25
you guys are a bunch of studs, i'm in the 20th decile or so ...
Laughsome native rigpig
  12/19/25
the only threads on XO more full of shit than income threads...
Twinkling Death Wish Lodge
  12/19/25
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Laughsome native rigpig
  12/19/25
I can do 12 full-extension, 13 with a bit of english on the ...
Jet lascivious lay
  12/19/25
Lol rfk did 20pullups on video.
Awkward stage
  12/19/25
if i used the same form and ROM as him i could crank off lik...
medicated 180 wrinkle
  12/19/25
Try actually doing pull-ups. You will not get much more by s...
Awkward stage
  12/20/25
LOL boor, his form was trash. controlled full ROM pullups fr...
Twinkling Death Wish Lodge
  12/21/25
You sound poor
khaki bat shit crazy plaza
  12/19/25
but self-selection...
black menage mood
  12/20/25
I dunno, like 10-15x the American average and also not nearl...
spectacular cuckoldry
  12/19/25
XO to young poasters, " Do NOT go to law school!" ...
aquamarine yapping meetinghouse
  12/19/25
Survivor bias. The people from my class who didn’t sur...
spectacular cuckoldry
  12/19/25
Soo cr. Maybe half of the dudes I know about are still lawye...
Fiercely-loyal curious selfie pistol
  12/20/25
It would be fascinating to see some actual ROI data on law s...
spectacular cuckoldry
  12/20/25
back in the day standard advice was only go to ls if you're ...
Ruddy boistinker crackhouse
  12/20/25
Only once ITE hit. Before that, Gen Xers sleepwalked off a c...
hyperactive big casino
  12/20/25
TITCR. The Bill Henderson “Bi-modal distribution of st...
spectacular cuckoldry
  12/20/25
this is correct. I started with 26 people in my summer c...
Trip circlehead forum
  12/20/25
amazing how XO gets the top 1% of lawyers to poast here
aquamarine yapping meetinghouse
  12/20/25
The personality that really likes it here actually thrives i...
Big-titted principal's office
  12/20/25
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house-broken bistre pit
  12/20/25
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Ruddy boistinker crackhouse
  12/20/25
$160k. The same I made as a first year. Good thing there&r...
bateful costumed den friendly grandma
  12/19/25
I paid just under that in taxes this year
splenetic shrine
  12/20/25
somewhere around $220k pre-bonus. bonus will likely be shit ...
fishy nudist goal in life
  12/20/25
this number includes all income, not just wagecucking.
fishy nudist goal in life
  12/20/25
actually it might be closer to $240k. idfk i don't keep clos...
fishy nudist goal in life
  12/20/25
A little over a mil. “Worked” ~10 hours a week. ...
Beady-eyed hyperventilating corner kitty
  12/20/25
How do you get your taxable income lower?
disgusting faggotry tanning salon
  12/20/25
Bought a car (100% depreciation) Pay myself rent -- I own ...
Beady-eyed hyperventilating corner kitty
  12/20/25
Creative but nothing fraud tp
house-broken bistre pit
  12/20/25
Tell more about paralegal. How does she bring in cases?
sadistic location
  12/21/25
Just by being likeable and talking to people and knowing wha...
Beady-eyed hyperventilating corner kitty
  12/21/25
...
sadistic location
  12/21/25
About 1mil , I wagecucked a lot and this is my ceiling. Anyo...
Awkward stage
  12/20/25
425k in a litigation boutique as a non-equity “partner...
lime sinister twinkling uncleanness turdskin
  12/20/25
still waiting for bonus which will be 30% of my comp
arousing clown
  12/21/25
it's likely going to be around $580k this year. i started th...
Overrated Wagecucks
  12/21/25
That’s good. Do you have to leave a bunch of money in?...
sadistic location
  12/21/25
at the prior firm, i bought in like $20k worth of shares. th...
Overrated Wagecucks
  12/21/25
We just work hard all year then deduct costs from fees earne...
sadistic location
  12/22/25
Looks like I peaked in 2023 at $500k and I've been earning l...
house-broken bistre pit
  12/21/25
it's surprising to me bc i used to not give a fuck about the...
Overrated Wagecucks
  12/21/25
are you hiring? can you mentor me? i really enjoyed ur saltw...
house-broken bistre pit
  12/21/25
if i could, i would man. are you open to learning traditiona...
Overrated Wagecucks
  12/21/25
i dont think i wanna learn that. do you think i can bottom f...
house-broken bistre pit
  12/21/25
yes but i am not sure what i can pay u. can i finish in ur a...
Overrated Wagecucks
  12/21/25
are you still pozzed?
house-broken bistre pit
  12/21/25
undetectable brother
Overrated Wagecucks
  12/21/25
i guess you can finish in my ass. $50 if u can host
house-broken bistre pit
  12/21/25
wow this is hot, let's take this off boart
Overrated Wagecucks
  12/21/25
$595k (which is like $390k after taxes)
green drunken hall
  12/21/25
...
milky hospital
  12/21/25
Should be $1.036m with rents and assuming the lab business c...
ruby mother
  12/21/25
600-800k in tech depending on stock price, haven’t rea...
Stirring Boiling Water
  12/21/25
180 last note
Effete citrine heaven
  12/22/25
About 1.3 mil. Shitlaw boss, real estate investing and othe...
disgusting faggotry tanning salon
  12/21/25
that is 180, very impressive. very unlikely everything wi...
Overrated Wagecucks
  12/21/25
I think he has posted about her before. He’s doing a ...
sadistic location
  12/21/25
i can't advocate for doing that, but that's just me. nobody ...
Overrated Wagecucks
  12/21/25
just do discreet affairs bro
Harsh floppy indirect expression range
  12/21/25
Lol at all the poasters counting unrealized investment gains...
disgusting faggotry tanning salon
  12/24/25
I wouldn’t include it in my headline number but I do t...
carmine senate
  12/26/25
CSLG free thread. Odd case.
razzmatazz canary useless brakes
  12/22/25
Great q. Most in-housemos have no idea since most won't kno...
razzle cheese-eating dragon stock car
  12/22/25
count any bonus you received in calendar 2025
Ruddy boistinker crackhouse
  12/23/25
I just started new job. Finished last shift of nights at 5am...
Awkward stage
  12/22/25
About $310k in W2/1099, $50k in rental profit, and I think $...
carmine senate
  12/22/25
Up $415,290. W2 wages are about 65% of that.
Big-titted principal's office
  12/22/25
whats the other 35%
Ruddy boistinker crackhouse
  12/23/25
cap gains
Jet lascivious lay
  12/25/25
are we counting cap gains in what we made this year? id need...
Ruddy boistinker crackhouse
  12/25/25
I'm up like $440k now on the year.
Big-titted principal's office
  12/25/25
~$500k
arousing clown
  12/25/25


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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:47 PM
Author: house-broken bistre pit



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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:48 PM
Author: Ruddy boistinker crackhouse

710K

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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:50 PM
Author: house-broken bistre pit

lawyer?

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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:54 PM
Author: Ruddy boistinker crackhouse

yea

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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:55 PM
Author: house-broken bistre pit

Biglaw?

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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:51 PM
Author: burgundy concupiscible station old irish cottage

Me: 842k

Wife: 267K

Including last year's bonus

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Date: December 18th, 2025 6:05 PM
Author: fragrant brass locus stain

Lawyers?

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Date: December 18th, 2025 6:07 PM
Author: burgundy concupiscible station old irish cottage

My wife is in-house and I lie on the internet

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Date: December 18th, 2025 6:07 PM
Author: Cordovan stag film



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Date: December 19th, 2025 10:23 AM
Author: Hideous Elastic Band Internal Respiration



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:16 AM
Author: Mustard Aggressive Office Messiness



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:19 AM
Author: Self-absorbed market chad



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Date: December 20th, 2025 9:01 AM
Author: bateful costumed den friendly grandma



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Date: December 21st, 2025 5:33 PM
Author: pungent amethyst associate



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Date: December 21st, 2025 5:53 PM
Author: milky hospital



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Date: December 21st, 2025 6:28 PM
Author: razzle cheese-eating dragon stock car



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 5:50 PM
Author: khaki bat shit crazy plaza



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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:55 PM
Author: Talented pale sneaky criminal

$350kish, maybe more depending on how collections come in over the next two weeks

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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:55 PM
Author: house-broken bistre pit

Trash or legal fees?

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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:58 PM
Author: Talented pale sneaky criminal

Picking up trash would be much more dignified

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Date: December 19th, 2025 10:23 AM
Author: Hideous Elastic Band Internal Respiration



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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:56 PM
Author: Marvelous gunner

$130k in shitlaw

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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:57 PM
Author: Harsh floppy indirect expression range

as a solo? associate? paralegal?

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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:35 PM
Author: Marvelous gunner

AssociaTTTe

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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:35 PM
Author: house-broken bistre pit

why dont you go solo?

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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:20 PM
Author: electric parlor filthpig

I thought shitlawyers made $60K in MFH

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Date: December 19th, 2025 8:41 PM
Author: Marvelous gunner

Nigger voicemail$

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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:00 PM
Author: Vivacious base preventive strike

A little over $300k as an in house fag. I'm pathetic and poor.

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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:07 PM
Author: Vivacious base preventive strike

When I was a young Inhousemo making $250k, I thought I was the shit. Xoxo told me that it was the only CR goal for a lawyer. And I had no kids.

Now I'm nearing 40 and practically live paycheck to paycheck. Exit ops are SLIM.

Turns out I was a retard for going in house.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49520231)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:08 PM
Author: Vivacious base preventive strike

To be fair, I had a 180 billion lifestyle in my late 20s and early 30s.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49520240)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:26 PM
Author: Heady newt

you should've lateraled to $750k 10-2 100% wfh in house ages ago, moron

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49520352)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:30 PM
Author: Ruddy boistinker crackhouse



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49520383)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:56 AM
Author: gold center jap



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49522387)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 5:32 PM
Author: vigorous high-end boltzmann



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49528363)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:22 AM
Author: Hideous Elastic Band Internal Respiration

In house is the exit option. There are no exist options from the exit option. What do you have in mind?

This is like seeing the ship you're on in the middle of the ocean catch fire, getting into a lifeboat and rowing away, and then saying you want an exit option from the lifeboat. You're lucky to be on that lifeboat.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49522250)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:55 AM
Author: charismatic mexican whorehouse



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49522385)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:32 PM
Author: sadistic location

Why is $300k paycheck to paycheck?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49522508)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 3:05 PM
Author: Vivacious base preventive strike

Over $400k if you add wife.

After tax income: ~200k

Housing (vhcol area + 3 kids): ~100k

Child care: ~$50k

Add in some money to retirement and kids college, and not much left for day to day.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49522995)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 5:54 PM
Author: sadistic location

You are doing better than paycheck to paycheck.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49523480)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 4:26 PM
Author: lime sinister twinkling uncleanness turdskin

you are retarded or lying because 400k with a family is not 200k after income taxes.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49525980)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 5:25 PM
Author: sadistic location

I had half my income withheld for taxes. I asked what the fuck and apparently we are prepaying for next quarter.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49528347)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:01 PM
Author: seedy field

286k so far. Prob will make another 15k. Wife 86k

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49519951)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:23 AM
Author: Hideous Elastic Band Internal Respiration

Does wife's post-tax salary cover the costs of childcare and other work-related expenses (work clothes, work commute, work bag, work Starbucks, work $19 lunch salad...)?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49522256)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:41 AM
Author: Embarrassed to the bone swashbuckling resort fat ankles

PATRIARCHY!!!

Of course it doesn’t.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49522337)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:45 AM
Author: Hideous Elastic Band Internal Respiration

Oh. So why does she work?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49522351)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:04 PM
Author: slippery national bbw

180k. worst year in total comp since pre covid

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49519965)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:57 AM
Author: gold center jap

don't you brag about being rich?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49522392)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:06 PM
Author: Laughsome native rigpig

sorry to hear it but props for your candor in a thread full of guys bullshitting

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49522784)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:10 PM
Author: nubile school volcanic crater

me: ~$400k wife: ~$325k

but i was also laid off



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49519995)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:15 PM
Author: Heady newt

if u want chandler to slap u with his dick just say so

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49520019)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:36 PM
Author: Henna dysfunction

Very gauche to discuss. Any white people left on here?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49520082)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:04 PM
Author: drab coldplay fan deer antler



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49520207)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:45 PM
Author: sadistic location

$790K. Wife made about $15K.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49520114)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:55 PM
Author: house-broken bistre pit

Doing what, and why?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49520142)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:58 PM
Author: sadistic location

I am atty.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49520156)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:59 PM
Author: house-broken bistre pit

I know that, I meant your wife

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49520161)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:04 PM
Author: Vivacious base preventive strike

He's an attorney. What's so complicated?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49520202)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 1:40 PM
Author: motley house

I understand that he's an attorney

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49522699)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 1:43 PM
Author: motley house

I understand that he's an attorney

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49522705)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 10:30 AM
Author: Overrated Wagecucks

I understand that he's an attorney

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49527326)



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Date: December 23rd, 2025 12:33 AM
Author: Jet lascivious lay

He's an attorney. What's so complicated?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49532966)



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Date: December 23rd, 2025 2:25 PM
Author: motley house

I understand that he's an attorney

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49534294)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:06 PM
Author: Effete citrine heaven

Over 50k. Plus I got a $150 honorarium for a talk earlier this month. I'm fucking rich.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49520223)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:24 AM
Author: Hideous Elastic Band Internal Respiration

I'd love to get an honorarium one day. Very prestigious.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49522258)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 10:30 AM
Author: Overrated Wagecucks

yup, I'd love to get an honorarium one day. Very prestigious.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49527328)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 12:49 PM
Author: Effete citrine heaven

You joke, but I'm unironically proud of my meagre token of prefthige. Intangible honours are more valuable than silver or gold.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49527624)



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 6:07 PM
Author: sadistic location

I felt the same when I won a $100 poetry prize. In college. In 1993.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49531954)



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 6:10 PM
Author: Effete citrine heaven

Lashing out because the board writ large is mocking you for bragging about a discount walmart watch?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49531959)



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 6:35 PM
Author: sadistic location

? Largely? It’s five unmarried childless losers pissed I’m buying a Rolex. One would hope there are more posters than that.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49531998)



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 11:01 PM
Author: Overrated Wagecucks

I was making fun of honaria. Whatever happened to him?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49532872)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 5:34 PM
Author: pungent amethyst associate

lol I make more money than lex tp

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49528370)



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Date: December 21st, 2025 5:47 PM
Author: sadistic location

Monkey driving a golf cart makes more money than that guy

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49528421)



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 3:46 PM
Author: hyperactive big casino

I feel safe in this subthread

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49531586)



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 3:46 PM
Author: hyperactive big casino



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 3:46 PM
Author: hyperactive big casino

lex how’s your dating life? jw

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49531592)



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 5:09 PM
Author: Effete citrine heaven

I only respond to such queries in old fashioned SUMMON: threads.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49531824)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:10 PM
Author: Heady newt

why are u dorks including ur wives' earnings

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49520253)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:14 PM
Author: drab coldplay fan deer antler

Same reason why they included what their wives harvested in their annual rice harvest numbers for the past 3000 years

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49520283)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:27 PM
Author: Heady newt

i don't even know whether my wife has a job

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49520363)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:19 AM
Author: Self-absorbed market chad



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49522246)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:24 AM
Author: Hideous Elastic Band Internal Respiration



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49522259)



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 3:47 PM
Author: hyperactive big casino



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:10 PM
Author: gold center jap

not enough.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49520256)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 7:07 AM
Author: Big-titted principal's office



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:15 PM
Author: Trip circlehead forum

little under $6M

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49520288)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:18 PM
Author: Vivacious base preventive strike

MFCR. State occupation, thank.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49520304)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:30 PM
Author: burgundy concupiscible station old irish cottage

271K TOPS

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Date: December 18th, 2025 6:37 PM
Author: scarlet national security agency piazza



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Date: December 18th, 2025 7:17 PM
Author: slippery national bbw



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Date: December 19th, 2025 1:55 PM
Author: Trip circlehead forum

sorry ur mad

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49522735)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 3:00 PM
Author: Deranged jewess



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:22 PM
Author: Azure French Institution Weed Whacker

Six figures, champ.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49520329)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 6:07 PM
Author: Cordovan stag film



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Date: December 18th, 2025 6:39 PM
Author: gold center jap



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Date: December 20th, 2025 9:29 AM
Author: black menage mood



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Date: December 21st, 2025 6:27 PM
Author: razzle cheese-eating dragon stock car



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49528564)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:29 PM
Author: multi-colored home

-$184K

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49520375)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 6:07 PM
Author: Soul-stirring orange parlour

I fail to see how this is relevant.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49520501)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 6:08 PM
Author: Out-of-control electric furnace church

Pre tax or post tax? Including expected tax credits, debits, write ups, write downs, etc.? Including retirement account contributions, distributions, roll overs? Including K1 returns of capital? Including present value of future earnings? Including appreciation on value of assets? Net of amortization and depreciation on those assets? Very unclear op

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49520506)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:18 AM
Author: Mustard Aggressive Office Messiness

holy fuck how jewish are you

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49522240)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 6:24 PM
Author: Cyan Codepig Mad Cow Disease

low-200s

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49520548)



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Date: December 18th, 2025 6:27 PM
Author: Very Tactful Diverse Cruise Ship

0

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Date: December 18th, 2025 8:07 PM
Author: insane garrison

like 2 million

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49520858)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 10:38 AM
Author: splenetic shrine

$360k in tech

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49522161)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 10:50 AM
Author: Fiercely-loyal curious selfie pistol

Less than I want but way more than I deserve

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49522182)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:00 AM
Author: At-the-ready patrolman

I value my wife’s admiration over tax advantages. Therefore, I sold off my winners but held my losers so that our tax bill in April shows bigly long-term capital gains for 2025 when in reality I barely beat the index.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49522192)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:03 AM
Author: Fiercely-loyal curious selfie pistol

Shrew'd

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49522198)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:03 AM
Author: khaki bat shit crazy plaza

lol @ this flame. Women only care about what you can buy them and the lifestyle you can provide (ideally one where they don't think about money at all). Any woman autistic enough to care about big number on long term gains is going to be autistic enough to care about overall performance, not just a big number on a line. The woman you're describing does not exist.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49522202)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 1:36 PM
Author: At-the-ready patrolman

She sees the tax return but not the brokerage statement. She’ll see the big reported income but not the unrealized paper losses. She is indeed high T and autistic so she does care about the number.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49522694)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:08 PM
Author: Laughsome native rigpig

(guy playing the long game)

at the same time, this is the sort of thinking that leads guys to do big ponzi schemes and then when they get found out they freak out and killself - don't do that

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49522791)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:59 PM
Author: At-the-ready patrolman

thank you

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49522969)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 10:43 PM
Author: Provocative magical nowag gaming laptop

I mean, don't rule anything out, there's something to be said for doing high roller ponzi until found out and then whatever happens happens

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49524077)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:03 AM
Author: duck-like international law enforcement agency

Who wants to pay off my house

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49522200)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:11 AM
Author: pink vibrant step-uncle's house

negative money (lived off debt)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49522220)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:19 AM
Author: Ultramarine dilemma

~250, not bad but half as much as last year. :(

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49522245)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:22 AM
Author: Mustard Aggressive Office Messiness

what happened

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49522255)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:37 AM
Author: Ultramarine dilemma

i made a bunch of money off of JMIA last year. ironically if i had just held i'd be up even more today, but there's fucking way i would've survived that draw down.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49522320)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:21 AM
Author: Self-absorbed market chad

if there's one thing I've learned as a solo it's that annual earnings are flame.

my income fluctuated probably 400% from 2024 to 2025 but nothing really changed. money comes in at random without any reference to what "year" it is.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49522248)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:28 AM
Author: house-broken bistre pit



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:29 AM
Author: frisky cobalt stead organic girlfriend

Around 1.7 which is what I made last year. I'm starting to think I'll never cross into the 2 million range

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49522287)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:40 AM
Author: charismatic mexican whorehouse

$600k as solo lolyer.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49522333)



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Date: December 20th, 2025 2:55 PM
Author: Irradiated Philosopher-king Gas Station

Closer to a tenth of that for me. Nasty health problem decimated my year.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49525725)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:44 AM
Author: Embarrassed to the bone swashbuckling resort fat ankles

~$900k

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49522345)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:09 PM
Author: shimmering hell lettuce

Paying tax on about $600K, but zero earned income.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49522793)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:17 PM
Author: Big-titted principal's office

Wow.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49522813)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 3:35 PM
Author: gold center jap

Let me know what I can do to earn about $20k from you.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5811768&forum_id=2).#49523151)



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Date: December 19th, 2025 3:41 PM
Author: shimmering hell lettuce

How many blowjobs can I get for that?

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Date: December 19th, 2025 4:20 PM
Author: gold center jap

well my regular price is $20 per nut but since you're buying in bulk, i can go to $15. So, 1,333.33 blowjobs.

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Date: December 19th, 2025 4:23 PM
Author: shimmering hell lettuce

That 1/3 sounds disappointing.

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Date: December 19th, 2025 8:47 PM
Author: Dead flesh queen of the night

lol

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Date: December 22nd, 2025 4:06 PM
Author: gold center jap



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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:18 PM
Author: Laughsome native rigpig

you guys are a bunch of studs, i'm in the 20th decile or so itt and honestly am pretty happy about it given my in-house lifestyle

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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:58 PM
Author: Twinkling Death Wish Lodge

the only threads on XO more full of shit than income threads are max pullups in a single set threads.

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Date: December 19th, 2025 3:27 PM
Author: Laughsome native rigpig



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Date: December 19th, 2025 4:23 PM
Author: Jet lascivious lay

I can do 12 full-extension, 13 with a bit of english on the last one, at 235 bodyweight not flame

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Date: December 19th, 2025 5:16 PM
Author: Awkward stage

Lol rfk did 20pullups on video.

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Date: December 19th, 2025 8:24 PM
Author: medicated 180 wrinkle

if i used the same form and ROM as him i could crank off like 30+

maybe once a month i will see someone at the gym doing legit full ROM dead-hang pull-ups. the rest are kipping crossfit turds just bouncing tension off their brachials and could probably not squeeze out eight clean reps.

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Date: December 20th, 2025 2:11 PM
Author: Awkward stage

Try actually doing pull-ups. You will not get much more by swinging unless you also don't go more than 1/2 up.

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Date: December 21st, 2025 8:47 PM
Author: Twinkling Death Wish Lodge

LOL boor, his form was trash. controlled full ROM pullups from a true dead hang (like required by most military testing) are substantially more difficult than what RFK and the road rules guy were doing. MTV was marginally better for form but still bad.

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Date: December 19th, 2025 6:06 PM
Author: khaki bat shit crazy plaza

You sound poor

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Date: December 20th, 2025 9:29 AM
Author: black menage mood

but self-selection...

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Date: December 19th, 2025 8:34 PM
Author: spectacular cuckoldry

I dunno, like 10-15x the American average and also not nearly enough. Being working class rich fucking sucks.

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Date: December 19th, 2025 8:56 PM
Author: aquamarine yapping meetinghouse

XO to young poasters, " Do NOT go to law school!"

*rubs hands togther*

"But I made 750k last year!!!!!"

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Date: December 19th, 2025 9:08 PM
Author: spectacular cuckoldry

Survivor bias. The people from my class who didn’t survive ITE probably have a very different perspective than I do.

And how many times when your friends kid asks you about going to law school do they sit down and tell you about their 158 LSAT / 3.4 GPA and grand dreams of going to Drexel and getting in at Dechert or Morgan Lewis. Maybe Drinker if they’ve got some sense.

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Date: December 20th, 2025 8:23 AM
Author: Fiercely-loyal curious selfie pistol

Soo cr. Maybe half of the dudes I know about are still lawyers. Way less than half of the women.

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Date: December 20th, 2025 11:14 AM
Author: spectacular cuckoldry

It would be fascinating to see some actual ROI data on law school classes over time. I got a good return on mine, but yea all of the people who drop out of/evolve away from the profession would almost certainly have been better off not going $300k into debt (above and beyond undergrad) in their early 20s.

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Date: December 20th, 2025 2:45 PM
Author: Ruddy boistinker crackhouse

back in the day standard advice was only go to ls if you're going to a t14

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Date: December 20th, 2025 3:00 PM
Author: hyperactive big casino

Only once ITE hit. Before that, Gen Xers sleepwalked off a cliff.

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Date: December 20th, 2025 5:59 PM
Author: spectacular cuckoldry

TITCR. The Bill Henderson “Bi-modal distribution of starting lawyer salaries” scholarship was explosive at the time, and for good reason. It only came out in like 2008 and the blog it was on has been lost to time.

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Date: December 20th, 2025 9:22 AM
Author: Trip circlehead forum

this is correct.

I started with 26 people in my summer class.

Of my summer class only two are partners at law firms - me and another guy I hired back to work for me as a W2 partner.

Two other guys have their own law firms but makes like 300k-500kyr

three others are in-house

All others are somewhere other than law.

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Date: December 20th, 2025 10:49 AM
Author: aquamarine yapping meetinghouse

amazing how XO gets the top 1% of lawyers to poast here

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Date: December 20th, 2025 11:18 AM
Author: Big-titted principal's office

The personality that really likes it here actually thrives in law practice too.

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Date: December 20th, 2025 11:27 AM
Author: house-broken bistre pit



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Date: December 20th, 2025 2:45 PM
Author: Ruddy boistinker crackhouse



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Date: December 19th, 2025 9:10 PM
Author: bateful costumed den friendly grandma

$160k. The same I made as a first year. Good thing there’s been no inflation.

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Date: December 20th, 2025 2:58 PM
Author: splenetic shrine

I paid just under that in taxes this year

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Date: December 20th, 2025 8:29 AM
Author: fishy nudist goal in life

somewhere around $220k pre-bonus. bonus will likely be shit this year, however.

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Date: December 20th, 2025 8:30 AM
Author: fishy nudist goal in life

this number includes all income, not just wagecucking.

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Date: December 20th, 2025 8:32 AM
Author: fishy nudist goal in life

actually it might be closer to $240k. idfk i don't keep close track of how much i make altogether; i focus on how much i save. won't know the exact number until i do taxes probably.

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Date: December 20th, 2025 3:11 PM
Author: Beady-eyed hyperventilating corner kitty

A little over a mil. “Worked” ~10 hours a week. Pay taxes on much less.

Depositing 400k in fees first week of January too.

Solo PI.

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Date: December 20th, 2025 4:22 PM
Author: disgusting faggotry tanning salon

How do you get your taxable income lower?

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Date: December 20th, 2025 4:37 PM
Author: Beady-eyed hyperventilating corner kitty

Bought a car (100% depreciation)

Pay myself rent -- I own office building

Office building depreciation/property taxes

Did a lot of work to the office building. New AC/Furniture. I fully renovated it a couple years ago for like 200k. All adds value to property and gets written off.

like 75k in meals and travel

Gas

Health Insurance

Mortgage interest home/office

I prepay whatever expenses I can for the next year -- car insurance, ad spend, web marketing, etc.

~150k in staff salaries. Paralegal always pays for herself by bringing in cases so I don't really count that. I'm sending a demand on a DUI wreck she brought in in January for $1 mil.

Creative but nothing fraud.



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Date: December 20th, 2025 6:02 PM
Author: house-broken bistre pit

Creative but nothing fraud tp

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Date: December 21st, 2025 11:28 AM
Author: sadistic location

Tell more about paralegal. How does she bring in cases?

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Date: December 21st, 2025 3:34 PM
Author: Beady-eyed hyperventilating corner kitty

Just by being likeable and talking to people and knowing what she's talking about. Lots of family members. She's probably brought in $1 mil in fees since she started with me ~8 years ago. I bought her a car last year.

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Date: December 21st, 2025 3:46 PM
Author: sadistic location



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Date: December 20th, 2025 3:45 PM
Author: Awkward stage

About 1mil , I wagecucked a lot and this is my ceiling. Anyone who has 5mil networth can make over 10%/yr in qqq and pay much lesser than I.

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Date: December 20th, 2025 4:30 PM
Author: lime sinister twinkling uncleanness turdskin

425k in a litigation boutique as a non-equity “partner”

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Date: December 21st, 2025 10:03 AM
Author: arousing clown

still waiting for bonus which will be 30% of my comp

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Date: December 21st, 2025 10:29 AM
Author: Overrated Wagecucks

it's likely going to be around $580k this year. i started the year as an equity partner where i got a monthly draw, then moved in april to a firm where i'm a nonequity partner. i forget exactly how much my equity payout for 2024 was, but i think it'll come in around 580.

next year, with my origination bonus for 2025, comp should be around 610-650. not sure what this place is doing with my base for next year, but it better go up because i had $1.8m in originations in 9 months.

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Date: December 21st, 2025 10:31 AM
Author: sadistic location

That’s good. Do you have to leave a bunch of money in? Is it pretax. Do you get your accountant to withhold tax?

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Date: December 21st, 2025 10:37 AM
Author: Overrated Wagecucks

at the prior firm, i bought in like $20k worth of shares. they returned that to me after i left, but it had increased to like $45k. i figured they were gonna just keep my money. this was all w-2 income with withholdings done. that firm is set up so that everyone is a "shareholder" and employee of the firm it isn't a partnership. when i was in biglaw, when i made partner i got paid on a k-1 basis, which fucking blew.

i'm eligible for equity at this firm at the end of 2026, and i will make it no question. the money i have in the pipeline would be enough originations for 2026 to qualify because the threshold is pretty low here. even if my book implodes in january, i'll have enough.

equity formula, i understand, looks something like: 40% of your "working attorney" number plus 20% of originations, plus something for being a "good firm citizen." i'm filling a need this firm desperately needs - despite having a bunch of labor attorneys, they are entertainment labor lawyers, which means they don't do ANY NLRB litigation or collective bargaining. all they do is interpret 600-page CBAs that were negotiated decades ago and are renegotiated by some employer association. so i guess they will do something for me to reflect that.

if my book in 2027 looks like it does right now, i'd make $1,080,000 or so my first year as an equity partner. this firm is an actual partnership, unfortunately, so i will have to start my own corporation or some kind of bullshit and pay way more in taxes.

we have a dood in my office who sues foreign govts for terrorist acts and brings in like 20 million a year, and that apparently winds up being a windfall to all the equity partners.

all firms should be set up as companies, this partnership stuff sucks ass.

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Date: December 22nd, 2025 4:27 PM
Author: sadistic location

We just work hard all year then deduct costs from fees earned and whatever is left we split between each other based on ownership proportion. So if we had 4 million in profit and if I have a 25 percent interest then I get a million, less whatever I’ve been taking out to live on during the year. Say $200k for that.

It’s complicated by the need to leave some of that money in operations for the following year because we don’t take loans for that.

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Date: December 21st, 2025 10:36 AM
Author: house-broken bistre pit

Looks like I peaked in 2023 at $500k and I've been earning less each year and next year I am really gonna be down big, meanwhile you keep going up

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Date: December 21st, 2025 10:39 AM
Author: Overrated Wagecucks

it's surprising to me bc i used to not give a fuck about the business side of law. i've always been regarded as really good at what i do, but kind of an oddball and oblivious to biz dev, etc.

when i was in biglaw, an of counsel i hung around with always told me that if i sobered up and quit doing drugs/drinking 24/7, i could have a big book. turns out he was right ($2m is big for me, anyway, and i never thought i'd have anything like this.)

you're doing great brother, anything over 300k is really good.

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Date: December 21st, 2025 10:42 AM
Author: house-broken bistre pit

are you hiring? can you mentor me? i really enjoyed ur saltwater tank threading and miss it

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Date: December 21st, 2025 10:46 AM
Author: Overrated Wagecucks

if i could, i would man. are you open to learning traditional labor law?

i'll be saltthreading again soon. we moved out of our house in august to do a renovation. i have to run over there every few days to feed the fish and maintain the tank. it's 120.

we should be moving back in within a couple weeks and i will resume tank threading and maybe throw in some home renovation threading.



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Date: December 21st, 2025 10:49 AM
Author: house-broken bistre pit

i dont think i wanna learn that. do you think i can bottom for u instead?

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Date: December 21st, 2025 10:50 AM
Author: Overrated Wagecucks

yes but i am not sure what i can pay u. can i finish in ur ass

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Date: December 21st, 2025 11:22 AM
Author: house-broken bistre pit

are you still pozzed?

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Date: December 21st, 2025 11:23 AM
Author: Overrated Wagecucks

undetectable brother

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Date: December 21st, 2025 11:26 AM
Author: house-broken bistre pit

i guess you can finish in my ass. $50 if u can host

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Date: December 21st, 2025 11:36 AM
Author: Overrated Wagecucks

wow this is hot, let's take this off boart

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Date: December 21st, 2025 10:30 AM
Author: green drunken hall

$595k (which is like $390k after taxes)

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Date: December 21st, 2025 5:53 PM
Author: milky hospital



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Date: December 21st, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: ruby mother

Should be $1.036m with rents and assuming the lab business collects as projected in December. The first over $1m year ever, bros.

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Date: December 21st, 2025 12:02 PM
Author: Stirring Boiling Water

600-800k in tech depending on stock price, haven’t really checked

30hr/week

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Date: December 22nd, 2025 11:09 PM
Author: Effete citrine heaven

180 last note

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Date: December 21st, 2025 1:00 PM
Author: disgusting faggotry tanning salon

About 1.3 mil. Shitlaw boss, real estate investing and other entrepreneurial activities.

It's a great blessing, and things have blown up fast over the last few years after years of toil. Last year was about 500k, 300k before that, lower for many years before that. This is a result of sustained business building, not one big settlement that won't be replicated.

However, this is a very risky seat to be sitting in. I'm a target in a wide variety of ways that I didn't anticipate, and everything could vanish at any moment. I am trying to take chips off the table and put them into safer assets where I can. But that's not easy to do.

Also, there is a hard, fairly low ceiling on my happiness because of my marriage to an angry, bitter woman who gets mad if she sees me enjoying myself. I don't want to divorce her for family reasons, but matters may come to a head in 2026.

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Date: December 21st, 2025 4:45 PM
Author: Overrated Wagecucks

that is 180, very impressive.

very unlikely everything will implode immediately. just plow like $2m into index funds over time and max out retirement accounts. that's what i'm doing. wife and i currently have close to $3m in retirement accounts and if i get to $2m in taxable, i won't worry at all about my book blowing to pieces.

but honestly, you will probably continue doing well so don't worry.

on the marriage, you should try to save it if you think it's salvageable, but if it really is far gone then you should split up. don't stay together for money. but don't be so fast to peace out. maybe if she knows you are putting your foot down, she will knock off her bullshit. maybe not, but you should give it a shot.

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Date: December 21st, 2025 5:24 PM
Author: sadistic location

I think he has posted about her before. He’s doing a mitzvah staying w her for the kids sake.

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Date: December 21st, 2025 5:42 PM
Author: Overrated Wagecucks

i can't advocate for doing that, but that's just me. nobody should ever do what i did and blow up a good marriage just because they're doing mounds of cocaine and strange pussy, but i also don't believe that you should stay if your relationship is in the shitty and not recoverable.

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Date: December 21st, 2025 5:30 PM
Author: Harsh floppy indirect expression range

just do discreet affairs bro

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Date: December 24th, 2025 11:21 PM
Author: disgusting faggotry tanning salon

Lol at all the poasters counting unrealized investment gains to come up with their headline numbers.

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Date: December 26th, 2025 10:13 AM
Author: carmine senate

I wouldn’t include it in my headline number but I do think it’s good to note.

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Date: December 22nd, 2025 3:04 PM
Author: razzmatazz canary useless brakes

CSLG free thread. Odd case.

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Date: December 22nd, 2025 6:03 PM
Author: razzle cheese-eating dragon stock car

Great q. Most in-housemos have no idea since most won't know bonuses for a bit.

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Date: December 23rd, 2025 8:06 AM
Author: Ruddy boistinker crackhouse

count any bonus you received in calendar 2025

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Date: December 22nd, 2025 6:28 PM
Author: Awkward stage

I just started new job. Finished last shift of nights at 5am and today at 9am started new job. Tomorrow will go for a swim before work.. but so far it doesn't seem like it's that easy. But as long as I get to take a 30minute run for lunch plus actually eat another 30 mins it might be a step up from working nights. Bit hourly rate is also lower.

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Date: December 22nd, 2025 11:05 PM
Author: carmine senate

About $310k in W2/1099, $50k in rental profit, and I think $470k or so in gains (mostly unrealized) and dividends.

Haven’t done the taxes yet though, will report back later.

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Date: December 22nd, 2025 11:08 PM
Author: Big-titted principal's office

Up $415,290. W2 wages are about 65% of that.

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Date: December 23rd, 2025 8:05 AM
Author: Ruddy boistinker crackhouse

whats the other 35%

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Date: December 25th, 2025 9:02 PM
Author: Jet lascivious lay

cap gains

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Date: December 25th, 2025 10:58 PM
Author: Ruddy boistinker crackhouse

are we counting cap gains in what we made this year? id need to revise my number

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Date: December 25th, 2025 11:20 PM
Author: Big-titted principal's office

I'm up like $440k now on the year.

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Date: December 25th, 2025 6:55 AM
Author: arousing clown

~$500k

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