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How much money did you make this year? ($$$)

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Cobalt corn cake
  12/18/25
710K
Ruddy demanding step-uncle's house
  12/18/25
lawyer?
Cobalt corn cake
  12/18/25
yea
Ruddy demanding step-uncle's house
  12/18/25
Biglaw?
Cobalt corn cake
  12/18/25
Me: 842k Wife: 267K Including last year's bonus
Vermilion outnumbered principal's office volcanic crater
  12/18/25
Lawyers?
Zippy space
  12/18/25
My wife is in-house and I lie on the internet
Vermilion outnumbered principal's office volcanic crater
  12/18/25
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turquoise rehab stain
  12/18/25
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walnut deranged indirect expression
  12/19/25
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Supple pistol
  12/19/25
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Metal flickering heaven gaming laptop
  12/19/25
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racy crackhouse
  12/20/25
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cerebral black coffee pot twinkling uncleanness
  12/21/25
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Chestnut Partner
  12/21/25
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Bateful stead codepig
  12/21/25
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Pink address
  12/22/25
$350kish, maybe more depending on how collections come in ov...
Hairraiser fuchsia plaza mad-dog skullcap
  12/18/25
Trash or legal fees?
Cobalt corn cake
  12/18/25
Picking up trash would be much more dignified
Hairraiser fuchsia plaza mad-dog skullcap
  12/18/25
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walnut deranged indirect expression
  12/19/25
$130k in shitlaw
vibrant gunner
  12/18/25
as a solo? associate? paralegal?
aphrodisiac yapping toaster whorehouse
  12/18/25
AssociaTTTe
vibrant gunner
  12/18/25
why dont you go solo?
Cobalt corn cake
  12/18/25
I thought shitlawyers made $60K in MFH
Rough-skinned parlour
  12/19/25
Nigger voicemail$
vibrant gunner
  12/19/25
A little over $300k as an in house fag. I'm pathetic and poo...
unholy kitty
  12/18/25
When I was a young Inhousemo making $250k, I thought I was t...
unholy kitty
  12/18/25
To be fair, I had a 180 billion lifestyle in my late 20s and...
unholy kitty
  12/18/25
you should've lateraled to $750k 10-2 100% wfh in house ages...
Lascivious university azn
  12/18/25
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Ruddy demanding step-uncle's house
  12/18/25
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sick umber kitchen genital piercing
  12/19/25
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Blue immigrant
  12/21/25
In house is the exit option. There are no exist options from...
walnut deranged indirect expression
  12/19/25
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blathering provocative hominid office
  12/19/25
Why is $300k paycheck to paycheck?
fragrant private investor
  12/19/25
Over $400k if you add wife. After tax income: ~200k H...
unholy kitty
  12/19/25
You are doing better than paycheck to paycheck.
fragrant private investor
  12/19/25
you are retarded or lying because 400k with a family is not...
Nighttime dilemma
  12/20/25
I had half my income withheld for taxes. I asked what the fu...
fragrant private investor
  12/21/25
286k so far. Prob will make another 15k. Wife 86k
Vivacious Parlor
  12/18/25
Does wife's post-tax salary cover the costs of childcare and...
walnut deranged indirect expression
  12/19/25
PATRIARCHY!!! Of course it doesn’t.
Big seedy national security agency hospital
  12/19/25
Oh. So why does she work?
walnut deranged indirect expression
  12/19/25
180k. worst year in total comp since pre covid
Charcoal Titillating Athletic Conference Church
  12/18/25
don't you brag about being rich?
sick umber kitchen genital piercing
  12/19/25
sorry to hear it but props for your candor in a thread full ...
insane becky cuckoldry
  12/19/25
me: ~$400k wife: ~$325k but i was also laid off
Frisky Ultramarine Garrison
  12/18/25
if u want chandler to slap u with his dick just say so
Lascivious university azn
  12/18/25
Very gauche to discuss. Any white people left on here?
Nubile Charismatic Sanctuary
  12/18/25
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Irate Violent Trailer Park Love Of Her Life
  12/18/25
$790K. Wife made about $15K.
fragrant private investor
  12/18/25
Doing what, and why?
Cobalt corn cake
  12/18/25
I am atty.
fragrant private investor
  12/18/25
I know that, I meant your wife
Cobalt corn cake
  12/18/25
He's an attorney. What's so complicated?
unholy kitty
  12/18/25
I understand that he's an attorney
razzmatazz hall
  12/19/25
I understand that he's an attorney
razzmatazz hall
  12/19/25
I understand that he's an attorney
dark naked market
  12/21/25
He's an attorney. What's so complicated?
brilliant brunch
  12/23/25
I understand that he's an attorney
razzmatazz hall
  12/23/25
Over 50k. Plus I got a $150 honorarium for a talk earlier th...
floppy gas station
  12/18/25
I'd love to get an honorarium one day. Very prestigious.
walnut deranged indirect expression
  12/19/25
yup, I'd love to get an honorarium one day. Very prestigious...
dark naked market
  12/21/25
You joke, but I'm unironically proud of my meagre token of p...
floppy gas station
  12/21/25
I felt the same when I won a $100 poetry prize. In college. ...
fragrant private investor
  12/22/25
Lashing out because the board writ large is mocking you for ...
floppy gas station
  12/22/25
? Largely? It’s five unmarried childless losers pissed...
fragrant private investor
  12/22/25
I was making fun of honaria. Whatever happened to him?
dark naked market
  12/22/25
lol I make more money than lex tp
cerebral black coffee pot twinkling uncleanness
  12/21/25
Monkey driving a golf cart makes more money than that guy
fragrant private investor
  12/21/25
I feel safe in this subthread
Drab travel guidebook school
  12/22/25
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Drab travel guidebook school
  12/22/25
lex how’s your dating life? jw
Drab travel guidebook school
  12/22/25
I only respond to such queries in old fashioned SUMMON: thre...
floppy gas station
  12/22/25
why are u dorks including ur wives' earnings
Lascivious university azn
  12/18/25
Same reason why they included what their wives harvested in ...
Irate Violent Trailer Park Love Of Her Life
  12/18/25
i don't even know whether my wife has a job
Lascivious university azn
  12/18/25
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Metal flickering heaven gaming laptop
  12/19/25
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walnut deranged indirect expression
  12/19/25
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Drab travel guidebook school
  12/22/25
not enough.
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  12/18/25
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Fluffy cracking hairy legs bawdyhouse
  12/20/25
little under $6M
pearly laughsome blood rage shrine
  12/18/25
MFCR. State occupation, thank.
unholy kitty
  12/18/25
271K TOPS
Vermilion outnumbered principal's office volcanic crater
  12/18/25
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Histrionic candlestick maker
  12/18/25
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Charcoal Titillating Athletic Conference Church
  12/18/25
sorry ur mad
pearly laughsome blood rage shrine
  12/19/25
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sticky cyan degenerate native
  12/20/25
Six figures, champ.
Vigorous rigor stage
  12/18/25
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turquoise rehab stain
  12/18/25
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sick umber kitchen genital piercing
  12/18/25
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Electric Pocket Flask
  12/20/25
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Bateful stead codepig
  12/21/25
-$184K
cerise dashing multi-billionaire
  12/18/25
I fail to see how this is relevant.
Frozen range sound barrier
  12/18/25
Pre tax or post tax? Including expected tax credits, debits,...
Peach forum
  12/18/25
holy fuck how jewish are you
Supple pistol
  12/19/25
low-200s
white contagious station party of the first part
  12/18/25
0
Aqua electric furnace
  12/18/25
like 2 million
heady death wish
  12/18/25
$360k in tech
house-broken wine newt
  12/19/25
Less than I want but way more than I deserve
Bearded Gay Wizard
  12/19/25
I value my wife’s admiration over tax advantages. The...
Flushed hyperactive quadroon
  12/19/25
Shrew'd
Bearded Gay Wizard
  12/19/25
lol @ this flame. Women only care about what you can buy th...
Pink address
  12/19/25
She sees the tax return but not the brokerage statement. Sh...
Flushed hyperactive quadroon
  12/19/25
(guy playing the long game) at the same time, this is the s...
insane becky cuckoldry
  12/19/25
thank you
Flushed hyperactive quadroon
  12/19/25
I mean, don't rule anything out, there's something to be sai...
startling 180 set
  12/19/25
Who wants to pay off my house
Magical fishy lettuce stage
  12/19/25
negative money (lived off debt)
Slippery Sadistic Crotch
  12/19/25
~250, not bad but half as much as last year. :(
vengeful school cafeteria
  12/19/25
what happened
Supple pistol
  12/19/25
i made a bunch of money off of JMIA last year. ironically if...
vengeful school cafeteria
  12/19/25
if there's one thing I've learned as a solo it's that annual...
Metal flickering heaven gaming laptop
  12/19/25
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Cobalt corn cake
  12/19/25
Around 1.7 which is what I made last year. I'm starting to t...
hyperventilating green state goal in life
  12/19/25
$600k as solo lolyer.
blathering provocative hominid office
  12/19/25
Closer to a tenth of that for me. Nasty health problem decim...
Diverse Wagecucks Hissy Fit
  12/20/25
~$900k
Big seedy national security agency hospital
  12/19/25
Paying tax on about $600K, but zero earned income.
chocolate balding voyeur house
  12/19/25
Wow.
Fluffy cracking hairy legs bawdyhouse
  12/19/25
Let me know what I can do to earn about $20k from you.
sick umber kitchen genital piercing
  12/19/25
How many blowjobs can I get for that?
chocolate balding voyeur house
  12/19/25
well my regular price is $20 per nut but since you're buying...
sick umber kitchen genital piercing
  12/19/25
That 1/3 sounds disappointing.
chocolate balding voyeur house
  12/19/25
lol
exhilarant ratface jew
  12/19/25
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sick umber kitchen genital piercing
  12/22/25
you guys are a bunch of studs, i'm in the 20th decile or so ...
insane becky cuckoldry
  12/19/25
the only threads on XO more full of shit than income threads...
Embarrassed To The Bone Aromatic Abode
  12/19/25
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insane becky cuckoldry
  12/19/25
I can do 12 full-extension, 13 with a bit of english on the ...
brilliant brunch
  12/19/25
Lol rfk did 20pullups on video.
At-the-ready carnelian casino potus
  12/19/25
if i used the same form and ROM as him i could crank off lik...
opaque zombie-like theatre
  12/19/25
Try actually doing pull-ups. You will not get much more by s...
At-the-ready carnelian casino potus
  12/20/25
LOL boor, his form was trash. controlled full ROM pullups fr...
Embarrassed To The Bone Aromatic Abode
  12/21/25
You sound poor
Pink address
  12/19/25
but self-selection...
Electric Pocket Flask
  12/20/25
I dunno, like 10-15x the American average and also not nearl...
comical filthy dopamine
  12/19/25
XO to young poasters, " Do NOT go to law school!" ...
Indigo ungodly cumskin area
  12/19/25
Survivor bias. The people from my class who didn’t sur...
comical filthy dopamine
  12/19/25
Soo cr. Maybe half of the dudes I know about are still lawye...
Bearded Gay Wizard
  12/20/25
It would be fascinating to see some actual ROI data on law s...
comical filthy dopamine
  12/20/25
back in the day standard advice was only go to ls if you're ...
Ruddy demanding step-uncle's house
  12/20/25
Only once ITE hit. Before that, Gen Xers sleepwalked off a c...
Drab travel guidebook school
  12/20/25
TITCR. The Bill Henderson “Bi-modal distribution of st...
comical filthy dopamine
  12/20/25
this is correct. I started with 26 people in my summer c...
pearly laughsome blood rage shrine
  12/20/25
amazing how XO gets the top 1% of lawyers to poast here
Indigo ungodly cumskin area
  12/20/25
The personality that really likes it here actually thrives i...
Fluffy cracking hairy legs bawdyhouse
  12/20/25
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Cobalt corn cake
  12/20/25
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Ruddy demanding step-uncle's house
  12/20/25
$160k. The same I made as a first year. Good thing there&r...
racy crackhouse
  12/19/25
I paid just under that in taxes this year
house-broken wine newt
  12/20/25
somewhere around $220k pre-bonus. bonus will likely be shit ...
Iridescent institution people who are hurt
  12/20/25
this number includes all income, not just wagecucking.
Iridescent institution people who are hurt
  12/20/25
actually it might be closer to $240k. idfk i don't keep clos...
Iridescent institution people who are hurt
  12/20/25
A little over a mil. “Worked” ~10 hours a week. ...
haunting twinkling foreskin
  12/20/25
How do you get your taxable income lower?
bat-shit-crazy exciting therapy weed whacker
  12/20/25
Bought a car (100% depreciation) Pay myself rent -- I own ...
haunting twinkling foreskin
  12/20/25
Creative but nothing fraud tp
Cobalt corn cake
  12/20/25
Tell more about paralegal. How does she bring in cases?
fragrant private investor
  12/21/25
Just by being likeable and talking to people and knowing wha...
haunting twinkling foreskin
  12/21/25
...
fragrant private investor
  12/21/25
About 1mil , I wagecucked a lot and this is my ceiling. Anyo...
At-the-ready carnelian casino potus
  12/20/25
425k in a litigation boutique as a non-equity “partner...
Nighttime dilemma
  12/20/25
still waiting for bonus which will be 30% of my comp
Emerald adventurous lay
  12/21/25
it's likely going to be around $580k this year. i started th...
dark naked market
  12/21/25
That’s good. Do you have to leave a bunch of money in?...
fragrant private investor
  12/21/25
at the prior firm, i bought in like $20k worth of shares. th...
dark naked market
  12/21/25
We just work hard all year then deduct costs from fees earne...
fragrant private investor
  12/22/25
Looks like I peaked in 2023 at $500k and I've been earning l...
Cobalt corn cake
  12/21/25
it's surprising to me bc i used to not give a fuck about the...
dark naked market
  12/21/25
are you hiring? can you mentor me? i really enjoyed ur saltw...
Cobalt corn cake
  12/21/25
if i could, i would man. are you open to learning traditiona...
dark naked market
  12/21/25
i dont think i wanna learn that. do you think i can bottom f...
Cobalt corn cake
  12/21/25
yes but i am not sure what i can pay u. can i finish in ur a...
dark naked market
  12/21/25
are you still pozzed?
Cobalt corn cake
  12/21/25
undetectable brother
dark naked market
  12/21/25
i guess you can finish in my ass. $50 if u can host
Cobalt corn cake
  12/21/25
wow this is hot, let's take this off boart
dark naked market
  12/21/25
$595k (which is like $390k after taxes)
excitant doobsian jap fortuitous meteor
  12/21/25
...
Chestnut Partner
  12/21/25
Should be $1.036m with rents and assuming the lab business c...
aggressive temple headpube
  12/21/25
600-800k in tech depending on stock price, haven’t rea...
Azure ceo resort
  12/21/25
180 last note
floppy gas station
  12/22/25
About 1.3 mil. Shitlaw boss, real estate investing and othe...
bat-shit-crazy exciting therapy weed whacker
  12/21/25
that is 180, very impressive. very unlikely everything wi...
dark naked market
  12/21/25
I think he has posted about her before. He’s doing a ...
fragrant private investor
  12/21/25
i can't advocate for doing that, but that's just me. nobody ...
dark naked market
  12/21/25
just do discreet affairs bro
aphrodisiac yapping toaster whorehouse
  12/21/25
Lol at all the poasters counting unrealized investment gains...
bat-shit-crazy exciting therapy weed whacker
  12/24/25
I wouldn’t include it in my headline number but I do t...
mustard yarmulke
  12/26/25
CSLG free thread. Odd case.
Marvelous piazza
  12/22/25
Great q. Most in-housemos have no idea since most won't kno...
Bateful stead codepig
  12/22/25
count any bonus you received in calendar 2025
Ruddy demanding step-uncle's house
  12/23/25
I just started new job. Finished last shift of nights at 5am...
At-the-ready carnelian casino potus
  12/22/25
About $310k in W2/1099, $50k in rental profit, and I think $...
mustard yarmulke
  12/22/25
Up $415,290. W2 wages are about 65% of that.
Fluffy cracking hairy legs bawdyhouse
  12/22/25
whats the other 35%
Ruddy demanding step-uncle's house
  12/23/25
cap gains
brilliant brunch
  12/25/25
are we counting cap gains in what we made this year? id need...
Ruddy demanding step-uncle's house
  12/25/25
I'm up like $440k now on the year.
Fluffy cracking hairy legs bawdyhouse
  12/25/25
~$500k
Emerald adventurous lay
  12/25/25


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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:47 PM
Author: Cobalt corn cake



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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:48 PM
Author: Ruddy demanding step-uncle's house

710K

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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:50 PM
Author: Cobalt corn cake

lawyer?

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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:54 PM
Author: Ruddy demanding step-uncle's house

yea

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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:55 PM
Author: Cobalt corn cake

Biglaw?

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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:51 PM
Author: Vermilion outnumbered principal's office volcanic crater

Me: 842k

Wife: 267K

Including last year's bonus

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Date: December 18th, 2025 6:05 PM
Author: Zippy space

Lawyers?

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Date: December 18th, 2025 6:07 PM
Author: Vermilion outnumbered principal's office volcanic crater

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

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Date: December 18th, 2025 6:07 PM
Author: turquoise rehab stain



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Date: December 19th, 2025 10:23 AM
Author: walnut deranged indirect expression



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:16 AM
Author: Supple pistol



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:19 AM
Author: Metal flickering heaven gaming laptop



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Date: December 20th, 2025 9:01 AM
Author: racy crackhouse



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Date: December 21st, 2025 5:33 PM
Author: cerebral black coffee pot twinkling uncleanness



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Date: December 21st, 2025 5:53 PM
Author: Chestnut Partner



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Date: December 21st, 2025 6:28 PM
Author: Bateful stead codepig



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 5:50 PM
Author: Pink address



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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:55 PM
Author: Hairraiser fuchsia plaza mad-dog skullcap

$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: Cobalt corn cake

Trash or legal fees?

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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:58 PM
Author: Hairraiser fuchsia plaza mad-dog skullcap

Picking up trash would be much more dignified

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Date: December 19th, 2025 10:23 AM
Author: walnut deranged indirect expression



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

$130k in shitlaw

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Date: December 18th, 2025 3:57 PM
Author: aphrodisiac yapping toaster whorehouse

as a solo? associate? paralegal?

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

AssociaTTTe

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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:35 PM
Author: Cobalt corn cake

why dont you go solo?

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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:20 PM
Author: Rough-skinned parlour

I thought shitlawyers made $60K in MFH

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

Nigger voicemail$

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Date: December 18th, 2025 4:00 PM
Author: unholy kitty

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: unholy kitty

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: unholy kitty

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: Lascivious university azn

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 demanding step-uncle's house



(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: sick umber kitchen genital piercing



(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: Blue immigrant



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:22 AM
Author: walnut deranged indirect expression

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: blathering provocative hominid office



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Date: December 19th, 2025 12:32 PM
Author: fragrant private investor

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: unholy kitty

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: fragrant private investor

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: Nighttime dilemma

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: fragrant private investor

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: Vivacious Parlor

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: walnut deranged indirect expression

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: Big seedy national security agency hospital

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: walnut deranged indirect expression

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: Charcoal Titillating Athletic Conference Church

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: sick umber kitchen genital piercing

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: insane becky cuckoldry

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: Frisky Ultramarine Garrison

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: Lascivious university azn

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: Nubile Charismatic Sanctuary

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: Irate Violent Trailer Park Love Of Her Life



(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: fragrant private investor

$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: Cobalt corn cake

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: fragrant private investor

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: Cobalt corn cake

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: unholy kitty

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: razzmatazz hall

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: razzmatazz hall

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: dark naked market

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: brilliant brunch

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: razzmatazz hall

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: floppy gas station

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: walnut deranged indirect expression

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: dark naked market

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: floppy gas station

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: fragrant private investor

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: floppy gas station

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: fragrant private investor

? 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: dark naked market

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: cerebral black coffee pot twinkling uncleanness

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: fragrant private investor

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: Drab travel guidebook school

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: Drab travel guidebook school



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 3:46 PM
Author: Drab travel guidebook school

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: floppy gas station

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: Lascivious university azn

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: Irate Violent Trailer Park Love Of Her Life

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: Lascivious university azn

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: Metal flickering heaven gaming laptop



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:24 AM
Author: walnut deranged indirect expression



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Date: December 22nd, 2025 3:47 PM
Author: Drab travel guidebook school



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:10 PM
Author: sick umber kitchen genital piercing

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: Fluffy cracking hairy legs bawdyhouse



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:15 PM
Author: pearly laughsome blood rage shrine

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: unholy kitty

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: Vermilion outnumbered principal's office volcanic crater

271K TOPS

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Date: December 18th, 2025 6:37 PM
Author: Histrionic candlestick maker



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Date: December 18th, 2025 7:17 PM
Author: Charcoal Titillating Athletic Conference Church



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Date: December 19th, 2025 1:55 PM
Author: pearly laughsome blood rage shrine

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: sticky cyan degenerate native



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:22 PM
Author: Vigorous rigor stage

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: turquoise rehab stain



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Date: December 18th, 2025 6:39 PM
Author: sick umber kitchen genital piercing



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Date: December 20th, 2025 9:29 AM
Author: Electric Pocket Flask



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Date: December 21st, 2025 6:27 PM
Author: Bateful stead codepig



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Date: December 18th, 2025 5:29 PM
Author: cerise dashing multi-billionaire

-$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: Frozen range sound barrier

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: Peach forum

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: Supple pistol

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: white contagious station party of the first part

low-200s

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Date: December 18th, 2025 6:27 PM
Author: Aqua electric furnace

0

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Date: December 18th, 2025 8:07 PM
Author: heady death wish

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: house-broken wine newt

$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: Bearded Gay Wizard

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: Flushed hyperactive quadroon

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: Bearded Gay Wizard

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: Pink address

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: Flushed hyperactive quadroon

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: insane becky cuckoldry

(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: Flushed hyperactive quadroon

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: startling 180 set

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: Magical fishy lettuce stage

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: Slippery Sadistic Crotch

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: vengeful school cafeteria

~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: Supple pistol

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: vengeful school cafeteria

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: Metal flickering heaven gaming laptop

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: Cobalt corn cake



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Date: December 19th, 2025 11:29 AM
Author: hyperventilating green state goal in life

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: blathering provocative hominid office

$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: Diverse Wagecucks Hissy Fit

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: Big seedy national security agency hospital

~$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: chocolate balding voyeur house

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: Fluffy cracking hairy legs bawdyhouse

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: sick umber kitchen genital piercing

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: chocolate balding voyeur house

How many blowjobs can I get for that?

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Date: December 19th, 2025 4:20 PM
Author: sick umber kitchen genital piercing

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: chocolate balding voyeur house

That 1/3 sounds disappointing.

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Date: December 19th, 2025 8:47 PM
Author: exhilarant ratface jew

lol

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Date: December 22nd, 2025 4:06 PM
Author: sick umber kitchen genital piercing



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Date: December 19th, 2025 2:18 PM
Author: insane becky cuckoldry

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: Embarrassed To The Bone Aromatic Abode

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: insane becky cuckoldry



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Date: December 19th, 2025 4:23 PM
Author: brilliant brunch

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: At-the-ready carnelian casino potus

Lol rfk did 20pullups on video.

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Date: December 19th, 2025 8:24 PM
Author: opaque zombie-like theatre

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: At-the-ready carnelian casino potus

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: Embarrassed To The Bone Aromatic Abode

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: Pink address

You sound poor

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Date: December 20th, 2025 9:29 AM
Author: Electric Pocket Flask

but self-selection...

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Date: December 19th, 2025 8:34 PM
Author: comical filthy dopamine

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: Indigo ungodly cumskin area

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: comical filthy dopamine

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: Bearded Gay Wizard

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: comical filthy dopamine

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 demanding step-uncle's house

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: Drab travel guidebook school

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

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Date: December 20th, 2025 5:59 PM
Author: comical filthy dopamine

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: pearly laughsome blood rage shrine

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: Indigo ungodly cumskin area

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

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Date: December 20th, 2025 11:18 AM
Author: Fluffy cracking hairy legs bawdyhouse

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: Cobalt corn cake



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Date: December 20th, 2025 2:45 PM
Author: Ruddy demanding step-uncle's house



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Date: December 19th, 2025 9:10 PM
Author: racy crackhouse

$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: house-broken wine newt

I paid just under that in taxes this year

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Date: December 20th, 2025 8:29 AM
Author: Iridescent institution people who are hurt

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: Iridescent institution people who are hurt

this number includes all income, not just wagecucking.

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Date: December 20th, 2025 8:32 AM
Author: Iridescent institution people who are hurt

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: haunting twinkling foreskin

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: bat-shit-crazy exciting therapy weed whacker

How do you get your taxable income lower?

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Date: December 20th, 2025 4:37 PM
Author: haunting twinkling foreskin

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: Cobalt corn cake

Creative but nothing fraud tp

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Date: December 21st, 2025 11:28 AM
Author: fragrant private investor

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

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Date: December 21st, 2025 3:34 PM
Author: haunting twinkling foreskin

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: fragrant private investor



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Date: December 20th, 2025 3:45 PM
Author: At-the-ready carnelian casino potus

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: Nighttime dilemma

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

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Date: December 21st, 2025 10:03 AM
Author: Emerald adventurous lay

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

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Date: December 21st, 2025 10:29 AM
Author: dark naked market

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: fragrant private investor

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: dark naked market

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: fragrant private investor

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: Cobalt corn cake

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: dark naked market

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: Cobalt corn cake

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: dark naked market

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: Cobalt corn cake

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: dark naked market

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: Cobalt corn cake

are you still pozzed?

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Date: December 21st, 2025 11:23 AM
Author: dark naked market

undetectable brother

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Date: December 21st, 2025 11:26 AM
Author: Cobalt corn cake

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: dark naked market

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

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Date: December 21st, 2025 10:30 AM
Author: excitant doobsian jap fortuitous meteor

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

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Date: December 21st, 2025 5:53 PM
Author: Chestnut Partner



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Date: December 21st, 2025 10:35 AM
Author: aggressive temple headpube

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: Azure ceo resort

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: floppy gas station

180 last note

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Date: December 21st, 2025 1:00 PM
Author: bat-shit-crazy exciting therapy weed whacker

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: dark naked market

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: fragrant private investor

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: dark naked market

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: aphrodisiac yapping toaster whorehouse

just do discreet affairs bro

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Date: December 24th, 2025 11:21 PM
Author: bat-shit-crazy exciting therapy weed whacker

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: mustard yarmulke

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: Marvelous piazza

CSLG free thread. Odd case.

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Date: December 22nd, 2025 6:03 PM
Author: Bateful stead codepig

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 demanding step-uncle's house

count any bonus you received in calendar 2025

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Date: December 22nd, 2025 6:28 PM
Author: At-the-ready carnelian casino potus

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: mustard yarmulke

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: Fluffy cracking hairy legs bawdyhouse

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

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Date: December 23rd, 2025 8:05 AM
Author: Ruddy demanding step-uncle's house

whats the other 35%

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Date: December 25th, 2025 9:02 PM
Author: brilliant brunch

cap gains

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Date: December 25th, 2025 10:58 PM
Author: Ruddy demanding step-uncle's house

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: Fluffy cracking hairy legs bawdyhouse

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

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Date: December 25th, 2025 6:55 AM
Author: Emerald adventurous lay

~$500k

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