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Why do wagies jerk off over unicorn jobs 100 people a year get

but making it on your own is some impossible thing to them? ...
Cracking Hall
  08/18/20
Despite her willingness to betray her homeland and her adopt...
racy slate prole mother
  08/18/20
(hater) nutella is so cool and above it all
Cracking Hall
  08/18/20
people who make that much money lending mortgages are low IQ...
Navy orchestra pit sweet tailpipe
  08/18/20
high iq (!!!) prestigious college grad proud to be a mascot ...
Cracking Hall
  08/18/20
decades of training
Navy orchestra pit sweet tailpipe
  08/18/20
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excitant lay
  04/22/21
Wercome to Asia
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  08/18/20
another example: XO always talking about how CR it is to be ...
Cracking Hall
  10/29/20
dirte's buddy makes $300k policing Alaska for some reason ...
floppy hilarious rigor lettuce
  04/21/21
I can see multi generational UMCs being too "dignified&...
Cracking Hall
  04/22/21
Of the people in my social circle, I'd much rather be, for e...
chest-beating internet-worthy principal's office masturbator
  04/22/21
the first-gen immigrants have atavistic primal work ethic an...
floppy hilarious rigor lettuce
  04/22/21
a YUGE difference between the chinese exam-taking confucian ...
Brilliant tattoo
  04/22/21
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floppy hilarious rigor lettuce
  04/22/21
In tech young people will talk about how much extremely well...
Cracking Hall
  04/22/21
Even new grad code monkeys make millions when you account fo...
passionate jade garrison jew
  04/22/21
that requires market timing, the right stock, and the stock ...
Cracking Hall
  04/22/21
https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Google&track=Software%20...
nighttime piazza
  04/22/21
and imo young engineers can find good upside/individual leve...
nighttime piazza
  04/22/21
yeah I'm talking about L8 for the 1m and speculating about t...
Cracking Hall
  04/22/21
I think you are grossly underestimating how many people try ...
nighttime piazza
  04/22/21
sure but almost literally no one is becoming a principal eng...
Cracking Hall
  04/22/21
worrying about 2 years of lost income while you try for fina...
Cracking Hall
  04/22/21
I can chill in an easy job that would basically never fire m...
nighttime piazza
  04/22/21
I don't mean working as a startup employee I mean creating y...
Cracking Hall
  04/22/21
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excitant lay
  04/22/21
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Cocky knife
  01/18/22
If you know you can make 300k a year consistently risk-free,...
excitant lay
  04/22/21
I've never made that much, describe where it all goes
Cracking Hall
  04/22/21
idk its your hypothetical money what would you do with it
excitant lay
  04/22/21
new iphone, takeout, fintech stocks and options
Cracking Hall
  04/22/21
Mortgage: $12000/mo Food, expenses: $1000/mo
passionate jade garrison jew
  04/22/21
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razzmatazz menage halford
  01/18/22
it goes to changing your buying habits to never having to sa...
doobsian big genital piercing
  01/18/22
Correct. That's where I am. $350k/year in a stable job. R...
startled church building feces
  04/22/21
YOLO.
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  01/18/22


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Date: August 18th, 2020 12:53 AM
Author: Cracking Hall

but making it on your own is some impossible thing to them?

I mean shit like quant traders that pay 22 year old CS grads $250k, private equity, nutella in-house law jobs where she makes like a million for little to no work (according to her), making partner as a biglawyer/management consultant/whatever

as far as rarity goes there are probably fewer of these lord wagecucks than retards who made the same money in real estate and prole shit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4605785&forum_id=2#40772106)



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Date: August 18th, 2020 12:55 AM
Author: racy slate prole mother

Despite her willingness to betray her homeland and her adopted home, Nutella makes zero money.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4605785&forum_id=2#40772111)



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Date: August 18th, 2020 1:02 AM
Author: Cracking Hall

(hater)

nutella is so cool and above it all

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4605785&forum_id=2#40772153)



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Date: August 18th, 2020 1:05 AM
Author: Navy orchestra pit sweet tailpipe

people who make that much money lending mortgages are low IQ and work more

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4605785&forum_id=2#40772163)



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Date: August 18th, 2020 1:07 AM
Author: Cracking Hall

high iq (!!!) prestigious college grad proud to be a mascot for a finance/law firm's website, why

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4605785&forum_id=2#40772172)



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Date: August 18th, 2020 1:07 AM
Author: Navy orchestra pit sweet tailpipe

decades of training

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4605785&forum_id=2#40772173)



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Date: April 22nd, 2021 2:23 PM
Author: excitant lay



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4605785&forum_id=2#42330687)



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Date: August 18th, 2020 1:08 AM
Author: Lime Medicated Business Firm Antidepressant Drug

Wercome to Asia

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4605785&forum_id=2#40772174)



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Date: October 29th, 2020 1:07 PM
Author: Cracking Hall

another example: XO always talking about how CR it is to be some fat cop or firefighter or other public sector scumbag phenotype dood taking advantage of overtime pay

yeah just be the one or two guys in the department allowed to do that! cr!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4605785&forum_id=2#41213547)



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Date: April 21st, 2021 7:52 PM
Author: floppy hilarious rigor lettuce

dirte's buddy makes $300k policing Alaska for some reason

and to answer your OP, entrepreneurs are just considered prole unless it's tech. UMC abide by strict, exacting rules that govern their existence. their values are not based on logic but on in-group mentality. why else would this site be obsessed with what is and is not, "prole?" also, they ostensibly care about things besides money, whereas a guy that owns 10 Mcdonalds' is just building an evil empire. the UMC are effeminate herd-followers which explains why they tried so hard as something as effeminate as "school" as it's existed from like 1970-present.

JJC's poasts are hilarious because he's an azn autist but he basically is the voice of the subconscious of a "striver," that's why he's like an epic legendary poaster of sorts. he is a caricature of all of the insecurities of a umc poaster.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4605785&forum_id=2#42325423)



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Date: April 22nd, 2021 12:00 PM
Author: Cracking Hall

I can see multi generational UMCs being too "dignified" to be small time entrepreneurs but ljl at someone like JJC looking down at some hustler idiot who makes as much as he does as a "new UMC" (I'm assuming he has a real job today commensurate with being a 40 year old Ivy UG grad and an MBA) in some weird prole self employed niche. There are probably 100k ways to make 100k a year on your own legally. I guess some fancy pants guy with a snooty wife isn't gonna start doing youtube and selling ebooks and whatever the new age grift is

It's fucking stupid though because if you took 100 young 20 year old strivers on reddit maybe 3 of them could make a lot of money as some kind of independent hustler type but 0 of them are going to be a private equity partner at Apollo or whatever the dream is for the risk averse

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4605785&forum_id=2#42329538)



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Date: April 22nd, 2021 12:07 PM
Author: chest-beating internet-worthy principal's office masturbator

Of the people in my social circle, I'd much rather be, for example, a contractor with a few side businesses and real estate ventures than, for example, a big4 audit director.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4605785&forum_id=2#42329579)



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Date: April 22nd, 2021 12:21 PM
Author: floppy hilarious rigor lettuce

the first-gen immigrants have atavistic primal work ethic and street smarts and gravitate towards the things that yield the most dollars. they also know that their kids will lack this but will have higher IQs and better language skills, so they push them into grinding for grades. in ancient china, the civil servants (analogue for the UMC) were held in decent regard, probably moreso than a run-of-the-mill merchant, so their ancestor memories reinforce this belief.

it's not unlike in the west - JQA started in politics but go back a few generations and you have the merchants/farmers or what have you.

"I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music."

-John Quincy Adams

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4605785&forum_id=2#42329693)



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Date: April 22nd, 2021 2:00 PM
Author: Brilliant tattoo

a YUGE difference between the chinese exam-taking confucian scholar class and america's modern UMC is concerned with (((rootlessness))). China's scholastics were deeply rooted in the land, and generally expected to move their ancestral homes (where everyone in the whole clan is supposed to live) no more than once per dynasty/regime change, or once every 20 generations or so. (we know it's ~20 due to rules of nonrepetition governing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_names)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4605785&forum_id=2#42330526)



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Date: April 22nd, 2021 3:29 PM
Author: floppy hilarious rigor lettuce



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4605785&forum_id=2#42331050)



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Date: April 22nd, 2021 12:08 PM
Author: Cracking Hall

In tech young people will talk about how much extremely well promoted senior engineers make at Google ($1m, maybe up to $2m idk) which takes insanely good needle-moving contributions to the company but maybe 1 in 5000 of new hires might ever reach that, but I bet 1 in 70 or so could build a $5-10m size indie tech business and retire off dividends or take a buyout

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4605785&forum_id=2#42329594)



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Date: April 22nd, 2021 12:12 PM
Author: passionate jade garrison jew

Even new grad code monkeys make millions when you account for the fact that by the time their stock grants best they have quadrupled in value

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4605785&forum_id=2#42329632)



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Date: April 22nd, 2021 12:14 PM
Author: Cracking Hall

that requires market timing, the right stock, and the stock staying up

and FAANGs aren't growing that fast anymore

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4605785&forum_id=2#42329647)



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Date: April 22nd, 2021 12:35 PM
Author: nighttime piazza

https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Google&track=Software%20Engineer

L5 and L6 are terminal career roles for average performers. Above L7 is rare enough that there's little data, people at that level have often credibly made google billions and make however much they can negotiate for.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4605785&forum_id=2#42329789)



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Date: April 22nd, 2021 12:38 PM
Author: nighttime piazza

and imo young engineers can find good upside/individual leverage in big tech on the right teams/projects, and even when they can't joining a series A startup has better risk/reward than trying to be a founder

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4605785&forum_id=2#42329806)



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Date: April 22nd, 2021 12:40 PM
Author: Cracking Hall

yeah I'm talking about L8 for the 1m and speculating about the higher ones. then there are people who had various incentive schemes at Waymo or something I heard about and made out like bandits

but there's obviously a high IQ and corporate politics/career maneuvering skill bar to achieve this stuff whereas any idiot can make a web app business these days and hit $1m ARR seemingly

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4605785&forum_id=2#42329824)



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Date: April 22nd, 2021 12:41 PM
Author: nighttime piazza

I think you are grossly underestimating how many people try that and sputter out after two years of little revenue and wasted earning potential

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4605785&forum_id=2#42329837)



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Date: April 22nd, 2021 12:52 PM
Author: Cracking Hall

sure but almost literally no one is becoming a principal engineer

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4605785&forum_id=2#42329957)



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Date: April 22nd, 2021 2:27 PM
Author: Cracking Hall

worrying about 2 years of lost income while you try for financial freedom independently is so gay

oh no a few hundred K less for my tranny kids who will hate me

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4605785&forum_id=2#42330718)



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Date: April 22nd, 2021 2:58 PM
Author: nighttime piazza

I can chill in an easy job that would basically never fire me while RSUs vest and I stash ~$60K/yr in tax protected retirement accounts with roth mega backdoor, and then when I hit RSU cliff or promotion roadblock at senior swe I can hop to any number of other companies and negotiate my way to higher level/TC

OR

I can grind 70 hr work weeks throughout my 20s in the hopes that I hit the 5% outcome that my equity is worth more than I made in option A.

Other benefits for career security: while working at startups you meet other people working at startups, who won't be much help if you end up needing to find a new job in 2 years. Working at large corporations you build contacts that are or will be at FAANG etc and can usually get you hired at level N+1 whenever you ask

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4605785&forum_id=2#42330891)



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Date: April 22nd, 2021 3:24 PM
Author: Cracking Hall

I don't mean working as a startup employee I mean creating your own lifestyle business or startup if it's an idea/model that requires funding. If you're a boring VTI guy who wants to retire to SEA at 31 then ofc FAANG is the most rational thing you can do

It's far more reasonable for some junior dev guy in a bigtech company to think I can probably learn some sales and product sense to bootstrap a company than to think I'm going to be the next guy to revolutionize databases at Google and make tens of millions there, yet there is overemphasis on the latter type of case (or analogously biglaw partners or PE/hedge fund leaders etc) by most mid to high IQ strivers which leaves a lot of good business opportunities for risk thirsty midwits to profit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4605785&forum_id=2#42331018)



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Date: April 22nd, 2021 2:29 PM
Author: excitant lay



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4605785&forum_id=2#42330726)



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Date: January 18th, 2022 7:15 AM
Author: Cocky knife



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4605785&forum_id=2#43802281)



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Date: April 22nd, 2021 2:04 PM
Author: excitant lay

If you know you can make 300k a year consistently risk-free, it really hurts the incentive to go out on your own and do something. If you're stuck making 30k at some shitjob it makes way more sense to take a major risk like starting your own business since you're already poor if you stay where you are anyway.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4605785&forum_id=2#42330556)



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Date: April 22nd, 2021 2:21 PM
Author: Cracking Hall

I've never made that much, describe where it all goes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4605785&forum_id=2#42330679)



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Date: April 22nd, 2021 2:22 PM
Author: excitant lay

idk its your hypothetical money what would you do with it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4605785&forum_id=2#42330686)



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Date: April 22nd, 2021 2:24 PM
Author: Cracking Hall

new iphone, takeout, fintech stocks and options

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4605785&forum_id=2#42330698)



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Date: April 22nd, 2021 3:37 PM
Author: passionate jade garrison jew

Mortgage: $12000/mo

Food, expenses: $1000/mo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4605785&forum_id=2#42331093)



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Date: January 18th, 2022 7:57 AM
Author: razzmatazz menage halford



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4605785&forum_id=2#43802372)



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Date: January 18th, 2022 7:21 AM
Author: doobsian big genital piercing

it goes to changing your buying habits to never having to say 'can i afford this'. i bought my 911 on vacation last year, just stopped by the guy's house on the way to the airport, checked it out, and wired him $ on the spot. boomer who used to work for ross perot, we chilled for a bit and cslg-style talked about how awesome it is to be rich.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4605785&forum_id=2#43802297)



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Date: April 22nd, 2021 3:38 PM
Author: startled church building feces

Correct. That's where I am. $350k/year in a stable job. Recently had someone come and offer for me to take a risk for $450k/year. Why bother?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4605785&forum_id=2#42331109)



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Date: January 18th, 2022 7:53 AM
Author: Naked Telephone Shrine

YOLO.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4605785&forum_id=2#43802366)