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Yes, I spoke to an MD from HL at a careers event and he said he likes to fuck around on here when work is slow.

 

Yeah he does deals 24/7 and slaps his son whenever he wants attention and he hasn’t had sex in 14 months because of the deals. He even missed his mom funeral to finish his 1.4b deal last week and he did it with a smile!!!

 

Doubt there's too many. I've been here almost 12 years and I'm still 6 digits - 129,571. Brofessor is 173,026 it looks like. Illini is 27,424. Eddie is 16,325. 

Comp is the only one I know sub at 3,119. He had a few return posts a month or so ago. 

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Well, you know two people. I'm 9,690. Keep in mind I'm in Semi-retirement and I've been a member here for almost 17 years - fuck... I'm old. I remember back when it was IBOasis. I'll pop up here and there, but yeah, I'm not surprised at how few people there are in that sub-200K space too. 

 

idk how this makes sense though cuz I'm showing as ~335K but my first comment was 14 years ago...

Quant (ˈkwänt) n: An expert, someone who knows more and more about less and less until they know everything about nothing.
 

Your user id is in your profile. If you click on the URL, you can see it. The significance of being sub-10K is really about how old you are (and how long you've been a member). Basically, it's the folks who were here from the beginning and remember a lot of the real early days of the Wild West of WSO

 
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I'm 13K, ~16 years

Are you VP or MD?

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

I joined a different finance forum in the late 2000s, but it is pretty much dead now. 

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

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"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee

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