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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]40 year old EP, DC office of large global firm. Should make about $1.5MM this year and wife hasn’t worked for about 5 years. She takes care of the kids, manages doctors, groceries, housekeeper, and pretty much everything else in our lives. Overall seems to like it, but she would never expect that anyone else would be jealous of that. It’s not like we have enough money to be living a different lifestyle from most in the DMV suburbs.

Only point I wanted to make on this: those who think every biglaw partner is working night and day have no idea what you’re talking about. I bill around 1400 hours per year, have maybe 2000-2100 all in. That’s nothing, basically 40 hours a week. Plenty of colleagues do the same. I almost never work weekends other than maybe an hour of prep and admin Sunday afternoon. Have never missed a vacation, and rarely do more than 3-4 hours of work/calls per trip. I mostly work from home, drive one kid to school every day, cook dinner a lot, have coached multiple teams, and we go camping and hiking as a family all the time. Honestly couldn’t be happier with the balance we’ve got.

Now, I’m never going to be a $5MM-$10MM take home guy. Those folks do tend to work a LOT more, or else they’re either really good at BD or fell ass backwards into a book. But I should be able to run this out in the $1.5-$2.5 range for 20+ years if I wanted to. (I don’t, but nice to know it’s an option.)[/quote]

You had me until you had the audacity to suggest that $1.5 million a year isn’t “enough money to be living a different lifestyle than most in the DMV suburbs.”  You are completely out of touch.  [/quote]

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