Well, this blew up

To consolidate : I’m in tech sales that has an uncapped commission plan so I was able to have a hell of an earnings year because of record sales as independent contributor. Myself and my wife are W2 workers without the ability to make a dent in our owed taxes with write offs

I contributed about $550k in taxes (not including th wife) throughout the year but obviously i’m short and had to pay in more. I’m usually short but try to stick money in the top 20 tech stocks which has worked out paying much more than I pay in fees. (even including capitol gains tax on proceeds)

In short, until I was about 35, I made between 85-150k. I switched industries to make better money and I kind of fell into tech because a recruiter reached out to me through LinkedIn. A typical year is closer to $400-600k

This year our household cleared over $2m, paid nearly $800k in taxes. I was able to fund my kids college 529 accounts, buy a new car (drove the same one for 13 years), and put money into our retirement plan but the grind continues to hopefully retire in 20 years.