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| 17-01-2026 02:00 PM | ||
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| 17-01-2026 09:04 AM | ||
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This post smells like bs. Support function makes nowhere close to 900k. Quote:
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| 17-01-2026 12:28 AM | ||
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mid 30s male, just married. not much of a salary story but hustle story. in my mid 20s i was working/studying in a local uni. i was doing sales and made 4k in my first month. then i realized, damn if i started out my salary less than my summer work doing sales. so my perspective greatly shifted since then. ever since graduation in mid 2010s i did not get a fulltime job but was hustling around. i was lucky as i did not have parents to support (they are self-sufficient) now in 2026 NW - ~6M SGD ( i earned 8+m the last few years, but i bought a 200k EV, enjoyed my life quite abit, good food/hotels/travelling, bought alot of watches ~500k value that i can liquidate at or above profit as well) wife ~ 1.5M SGD no property, waiting to flip maybe 2-3x on a possible upcoming recession. no debt/liabilities. No i'm not from rich family, no i'm not doing anything illegal. and it's totally legit. we're 100% self made, wife did her own business for over 10 years and kinda slowing down to start a family. I've been in crypto the last 8 years, in the beginning of my career i was buying/selling on behalf of people wanting to invest into bitcoin charging them a premium. (good money like 20k+/month) few months in I lost a huge ton of money (mid 6 figures) earlier from being cheated. was stuck in a bad place both financially and mentally and health wise for maybe 1-2 years. But I bounced back and persevered, slowly crawling back the debt, maybe earning 10-20k slowly. in 2022 I got a breakthrough in my career, I found an opportunity to arbitrage across different markets. I found myself working everyday 16hrs even sleeping for a few hours to wake up to my tradingview alerts, do some trading then go back to sleep; for 1 month. Then i wrote my own trading program to basically do it for me 24/7. because there was the opportunity (maybe in a few years when i can no longer do this i will update exactly what i did haha). took me a couple weeks but then basically everything was on autopilot for a few years. it's 2026 now and certain things happened and some system stuff got patched so arbitrage isn't that profitable anymore. but i'm/we're kinda semi retired now maybe waiting for bitcoin to dip to 50k. expecting our daughter soon so too bad for her both her parents will be home all the time to annoy her hahahaha. yeah we're really rich now and nobody knows except my wife because i'm really chill about it and i'm just hoarding cash waiting for a recession but maybe when we buy our first property together it'll be lul. looking around i'm probably up at the top but i'm incredibly lucky, and have some long term serious health issues due to stress/trauma/ptsd from losing so much money in my late 20s and it could have gone either way (some people might commit suicide if they went through what i went through). then again, the price of greatness. if i got a job from graduation yeah i'd be pretty ok now, in my mid 30s, but probably nowhere near my current actual state. |
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| 16-01-2026 08:27 PM | ||
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Male 37 Specialist in gov hospital 355k Wife 33 General practitioner 240k |
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| 14-01-2026 03:08 PM | ||
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Time flies, another 4 years have passed since my last posting. Here's the latest stats: Age: 51, 49 Family: wife with 2 kids, aged 19 and 16 Work: both STILL in financial industry, STILL in a support function (so not your banker, salesperson, trader etc) Total income: $953K, $325K Residence: Upgraded to FH Semi-D in Oct 2021 and sold off our leasehold terrace and 5rm HDB. Just bought a $3.5m invt pty in Jan 2025 under construction. Car: new China EV @ $248k, collected car in Nov 2025. Income tax for FY2026: $120K, $22K (wife's tax bill significantly increased from 2014 cos of $80k cap on reliefs). Savings: $5.6m Networth: $13.6m currently. A few thoughts. As we get into our 50s, a new phase of life where kids are starting to have their own friend/network although still studying, and our plans to take a slight step back and enjoy ourselves abit more. No big ambitions to climb the career ladder, or upgrade from Semi-D to Detached/GCB. Just looking for a stable live with no drama, children finishing their studies and start support themselves, and we take more time to travel and "smell the flowers" so to speak. Quote:
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| 23-11-2025 09:08 AM | ||
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| 21-11-2025 06:33 PM | ||
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 How many years of experience do you have?
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| 21-11-2025 05:57 PM | ||
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| 21-11-2025 10:17 AM | ||
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2015 - $36K 2018 - $100K 2022 - $200K 2026 - $300K Job - Dreamer |
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