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Vibrant nofapping base mediation
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The year after graduating law school when I realized practic...
Contagious Jap Hunting Ground
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Lime garrison
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Off the top of my head, 2025 wasn't great and is certainly i...
maroon comical church trust fund
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2007 (freshman/soph year of college) was probably both the b...
diverse parlour
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what year is it rn
Lascivious Locus Rigor
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bateful metal indian lodge dog poop
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Dashing depressive
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2008? Was working $50K insurance defense law living in my p...
Duck-like Wonderful Alpha Crackhouse
  01/28/26
How’s life now
\'\"\"\'\'\'\"\"\'
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every year is the shittiest year of my life so far
Soul-stirring medicated pozpig
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Lascivious Locus Rigor
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Vibrant nofapping base mediation
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talented hairy legs
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Vibrant nofapping base mediation
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Lascivious Locus Rigor
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wow, thats messed up
Lime garrison
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wine box office headpube
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Vibrant nofapping base mediation
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Already underrated
Motley claret office
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Vibrant nofapping base mediation
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Black underhanded haunted graveyard bawdyhouse
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Vibrant nofapping base mediation
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tp
purple parlor cuckold
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thinking about this just made me realize how many shitty yea...
Dull nursing home
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many poeple are saying this
Vibrant nofapping base mediation
  01/28/26
2006. graduated ls after not trying at all and not paying at...
chocolate site
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2006-2008 was really fucking awful for me in retrospect now ...
Vibrant nofapping base mediation
  01/28/26
ITE is indirectly the reason i wound up in biglaw. in lat...
chocolate site
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Isn’t J&L well known and well thought of in their ...
Duck-like Wonderful Alpha Crackhouse
  01/28/26
it is a solid L&E firm. the problem with it is the lawye...
Conrad Cumdumpster
  01/28/26
Was in essentially the same spot. It’s a miracle dude...
Duck-like Wonderful Alpha Crackhouse
  01/28/26
cr. did you make it to biglaw? i wound up at baker hostetler...
chocolate site
  01/28/26
Eventually. Big break was an in-house job at a F50 that an ...
Duck-like Wonderful Alpha Crackhouse
  01/28/26
180, we beat the odds
chocolate site
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and then boom ITE, lol fuckin a
Vibrant nofapping base mediation
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bateful metal indian lodge dog poop
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"oh. so you were just a loser then." *gary chuc...
ruby heaven
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(never worked at a biglaw firm)
chocolate site
  01/28/26
regional large midlaw!!!
ruby heaven
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2023
heady theater stage french chef
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2011-2012. My whole biglaw setup exploded during ITE and I ...
Alcoholic big step-uncle's house
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Who was that hilarious doc review poaster circa 2010 about n...
Multi-colored scarlet lodge faggot firefighter
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Slackfist Cumdumpster
heady theater stage french chef
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Those were some great threads. Any bort historians able to l...
Motley claret office
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Multi-colored scarlet lodge faggot firefighter
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Alcoholic big step-uncle's house
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180
Motley claret office
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i remember reading those for the first time. I had been out ...
No Paye No Gain
  01/28/26
I was having a rough time then and those scared the shit out...
.,.,...,..,.,.,:,,:,.,.,:::,...,:,...:..:.,:.::,.
  02/01/26
LMAO, no things weren't that bad for me.
Alcoholic big step-uncle's house
  01/28/26
2024
violet titillating spot goyim
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2013
Multi-colored scarlet lodge faggot firefighter
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joran tindersloot
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Glittery hell yarmulke
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2012. Grandpa died. Friend killed self. Started shitlaw firm...
Motley claret office
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2024-ongoing
Irradiated school cafeteria windowlicker
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2025 for sure. Wife caught me cheating and it was a huge thi...
Hmong Us
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Mom was diagnosed with super aggressive cancer and died abou...
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Date: January 28th, 2026 10:59 AM
Author: Vibrant nofapping base mediation



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49626378)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 10:59 AM
Author: Contagious Jap Hunting Ground

The year after graduating law school when I realized practicing law was torture and I was sentenced to life.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49626382)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 4:58 PM
Author: Lime garrison



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49627484)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 11:15 AM
Author: maroon comical church trust fund

Off the top of my head, 2025 wasn't great and is certainly in the running

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49626414)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 11:16 AM
Author: diverse parlour

2007 (freshman/soph year of college) was probably both the best and the worst. Mom dropped dead of pancreatic cancer and met most of the people who I'd now consider my friends, had a lot of fun doing college shit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49626416)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 11:19 AM
Author: Lascivious Locus Rigor

what year is it rn

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49626424)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 4:43 PM
Author: bateful metal indian lodge dog poop



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49627416)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 7:56 PM
Author: Dashing depressive



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49628645)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 11:57 AM
Author: Duck-like Wonderful Alpha Crackhouse

2008? Was working $50K insurance defense law living in my parents basement while most of my Ls classmates had Biglaw and my local HS friends were well into their careers and I got dumped by my LS GF.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49626484)



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Date: February 1st, 2026 4:56 PM
Author: \'\"\"\'\'\'\"\"\'

How’s life now

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49639234)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:01 PM
Author: Soul-stirring medicated pozpig

every year is the shittiest year of my life so far

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49626491)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:06 PM
Author: Lascivious Locus Rigor



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49626492)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:08 PM
Author: Vibrant nofapping base mediation



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49626494)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 1:47 PM
Author: talented hairy legs



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49626854)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 4:56 PM
Author: Vibrant nofapping base mediation



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49627478)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:08 PM
Author: Lascivious Locus Rigor



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49627529)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:00 PM
Author: Lime garrison

wow, thats messed up

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49627490)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:12 PM
Author: wine box office headpube



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49627541)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:31 PM
Author: Vibrant nofapping base mediation



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49627659)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 7:56 PM
Author: Motley claret office

Already underrated

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49628644)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:09 PM
Author: Vibrant nofapping base mediation



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49628693)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:12 PM
Author: Black underhanded haunted graveyard bawdyhouse



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49628698)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:12 PM
Author: Vibrant nofapping base mediation



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49628700)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:32 PM
Author: purple parlor cuckold

tp

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49627673)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:15 PM
Author: Dull nursing home

thinking about this just made me realize how many shitty years i’ve had in my adult life, how shit my shit life has been, lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49626514)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:34 PM
Author: Vibrant nofapping base mediation

many poeple are saying this

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49626570)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:25 PM
Author: chocolate site

2006. graduated ls after not trying at all and not paying attention to how firms worked. i just went to ls because i had nothing better to do and i didn't try. i wrote on to law review but otherwise didn't try to get good grades.

realized how fucked i was after i graduated. bounced around between temp jobs at ID firms, i couldn;'t even get an ID job. i finally got one and the guy paid me $25 per BILLED hour and i was a contractor. i really thought i was life pwnd.

unbelievable that i eventually worked my way up to biglaw from that. but yeah, 2006-2007, either of those years could easily be the worst. by far.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49626532)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:32 PM
Author: Vibrant nofapping base mediation

2006-2008 was really fucking awful for me in retrospect now that i think about, cant beleive i didnt kms honestly

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49626561)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:38 PM
Author: chocolate site

ITE is indirectly the reason i wound up in biglaw.

in late 2007 i got a job with a solo who did L&E (primarily traditional labor) and happened to take to it. in 2009, we hired a law clerk who was a 2L who'd gotten an offer from a regional bmore firm but the offer was rescinded bc of ITE.

he worked for us a few months and we kept in touch. he wound up at a baltimore firm called miles & stockbridge - basically, regional midlaw. the solo had to lay me off bc he lost a big client at the end of 2011 and the law clerk got me in at miles. i went from there to jackson lewis (ttt L&E firm), and from there to baker hostetler, where i wound up making partner.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49626579)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 2:05 PM
Author: Duck-like Wonderful Alpha Crackhouse

Isn’t J&L well known and well thought of in their own sphere? It’s not true Milbank scale Biglaw but it’s not Lewis Brisbois either.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49626916)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:26 PM
Author: Conrad Cumdumpster ((zurich is stained))

it is a solid L&E firm. the problem with it is the lawyers are hit and miss. some are really good like me, but some are borderline retarded.

they pay first years in NYC, DC, etc like 120k lol. what do you expect at that salary.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49628763)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:32 PM
Author: Duck-like Wonderful Alpha Crackhouse

Was in essentially the same spot. It’s a miracle dude we weren’t perma fucked.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49626562)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:33 PM
Author: chocolate site

cr. did you make it to biglaw? i wound up at baker hostetler, which is a shitty biglaw firm, but it's amazing i even made it there given that i was in literal shitlaw for a couple years.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49626564)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 1:47 PM
Author: Duck-like Wonderful Alpha Crackhouse

Eventually. Big break was an in-house job at a F50 that an adjunct professor I emailed recommended me for. Made contacts and got skills there and eventually did 5 years as a counsel/NEP at a lower tier V100 before going back in-house (at a fund now).

Not sure what the path is without that initial break. Definitely threw as much work as i could to the adjunct professor (who was a V20 Biglaw partner).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49626850)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 1:50 PM
Author: chocolate site

180, we beat the odds

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49626860)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 12:33 PM
Author: Vibrant nofapping base mediation

and then boom ITE, lol fuckin a

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49626565)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 4:43 PM
Author: bateful metal indian lodge dog poop



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49627415)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 4:45 PM
Author: ruby heaven

"oh. so you were just a loser then."

*gary chuckles*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49627424)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:25 PM
Author: chocolate site

(never worked at a biglaw firm)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49627623)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:31 PM
Author: ruby heaven

regional large midlaw!!!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49627658)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 1:31 PM
Author: heady theater stage french chef

2023

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49626775)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 4:44 PM
Author: Alcoholic big step-uncle's house

2011-2012. My whole biglaw setup exploded during ITE and I had to do a hard reset. Doing the hard reset was difficult but I was ok with hard work. There was a relatively short period when it seemed like it wasn't going to work. I had sent several thousand job apps (!!!) and never closed the deal. Then I did and things were fine.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49627418)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:03 PM
Author: Multi-colored scarlet lodge faggot firefighter

Who was that hilarious doc review poaster circa 2010 about not being allowed 2 slices of pizza for work lunch etc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49627499)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:44 PM
Author: heady theater stage french chef

Slackfist Cumdumpster

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49627750)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 7:58 PM
Author: Motley claret office

Those were some great threads. Any bort historians able to link them?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49628650)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:15 PM
Author: Multi-colored scarlet lodge faggot firefighter

Skadden Farts

https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1905801&mc=187&forum_id=2#20278379

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49628706)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:15 PM
Author: Alcoholic big step-uncle's house



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49628712)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:21 PM
Author: Motley claret office

180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49628729)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:25 PM
Author: No Paye No Gain

i remember reading those for the first time. I had been out of law school like 10 months and quit my first job to start my solo firm. I was lying in bed (at my dad's house) reading those and was just like I have to fucking succeed at this or I'm going to kill myself working doc review

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49628752)



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Date: February 1st, 2026 6:27 PM
Author: .,.,...,..,.,.,:,,:,.,.,:::,...,:,...:..:.,:.::,.


I was having a rough time then and those scared the shit out of me.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49639487)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:15 PM
Author: Alcoholic big step-uncle's house

LMAO, no things weren't that bad for me.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49628709)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 5:31 PM
Author: violet titillating spot goyim

2024

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49627669)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 7:55 PM
Author: Multi-colored scarlet lodge faggot firefighter

2013

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49628643)



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Date: February 1st, 2026 6:49 PM
Author: joran tindersloot



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49639551)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:01 PM
Author: Glittery hell yarmulke



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49628663)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:18 PM
Author: Motley claret office

2012. Grandpa died. Friend killed self. Started shitlaw firm 3 years into marriage and made like 15k all year, which did not go over well and was very embarrassing.

My dog turned 2 that year and was the only thing that kept me from abject despair. He'll be 16 this year and I would murder innumerable people to give him more life.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49628715)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:20 PM
Author: Irradiated school cafeteria windowlicker

2024-ongoing

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49628724)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:33 PM
Author: Hmong Us

2025 for sure. Wife caught me cheating and it was a huge thing.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49628818)



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Date: January 28th, 2026 8:34 PM
Author: .........,,.,.,.,.,,,,,,.,.,.,.,.,. ( )


Mom was diagnosed with super aggressive cancer and died about 8 weeks later. Went through a break up at the same time. Had a lot of support from family n friends but was by far the worst.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5827766&forum_id=2Elisa#49628832)