u/Cyprovix

I'm sorry that your home airport is FRA.

Cool map, lots of variety!

The way you pay for something - cash, check, credit card, etc. - doesn’t change how something is taxed.

I’m not sure what tax implication you’re referring to.

You are close enough with her that you allow her to live rent free in a CA home. Not all families are that close to their children.

This and the fact that your child is living rent free in the house. Meaning that you have an immediate family tie in CA and have a home that you can move into at any time.

Not a split in that direction! About 75% of my flights are domestic.

Is the goal to have a seasonal job or to get your foot in the door for tax?

If money isn't the motivator, I'd look into the volunteering for the IRS's VITA program. You'll go through training, assist with tax returns for lower income families in your community, and be more competitive for any future jobs in tax.

I sync to the Shearwater app, but then log the details of the dive in Submersion (where the computer sync also works perfectly).

OP is American, so they can’t visit Cuba for tourism.

Check Google Flights. Use "Washington" as your starting airport to also include DCA (and BWI, which you can ignore if that's too far away) as an option.

OP, you're getting criticized here, but your map is impressive and shows you've been more places than most of the world's population will ever be.

But your worldwide adventure sounds like you'll barely have enough time to snap a picture for social media before moving on to the next spot. And it looks like your destinations will be places you've already been to, all when you have a direct 8 hour flight from your home airport to Paris!

Edit: I will say that the first class experience will be amazing. That's more of a draw than the actual spots you'll be visiting!

I was downvoted into oblivion when stating the same thing. An Advanced Specialty Diver card isn't "above" AOW, there are elements to an AOW certification that an Advanced Specialty Diver doesn't have.

We can dislike this or say that an Advanced Specialty Diver is more impressive, but a recognition level is different than a certification.

Yes, but there are Open Water divers with thousands of dives and very impressive skills. They still don't have an AOW certification. It's a certification, not a statement about how good at diving someone is.

You don’t currently qualify for SSI’s Advanced Open Water card (or the PADI equivalent) because you need 5 adventure dives in different specialties, with a mandatory deep dive and mandatory navigation dive.

Right now you have adventure dives in 3 specialties (because I believe React Right does not have any associated dives) and are also missing navigation. So you need a navigation dive and an elective dive to qualify for AOW. And depending on how you got your Nitrox certification, you might not have done a dive for that either, meaning there might be an additional elective you need.

The interest credited back to your account is part of that $7853.88 refund, it isn't a separate amount.

Sounds like you already received plenty of answers on this one yesterday: https://www.reddit.com/r/scuba/comments/1x7gick/has_spare_air_saved_you/

In your Passport, you can sort your flights by either "From" or "To". So if I sort by From, I can see every flight I've ever flown out of Albuquerque, or Atlanta, or Auckland, etc. You can see the routes by airport using this feature.

It doesn't change your map at all, but you can easily see all of the routes you've taken in text form!

"Vacation diver" here. I have my own dive computer.

Edit: I'll add on to my original comment, because I see a lot of people here who travel with the entire kit. That's an option, but to provide another perspective for OP, I travel with my mask and a computer. Takes up very little space in my bag.

Thanks, I didn't want to assume. The other commenter is correct that you should follow the flowchart. If your job doesn't provide a retirement plan with a match, my immediate recommendation would be to transfer $7,500 of that cash into a Roth IRA.

How long do you expect to be in China with this job?

Edit: u/SkyliteBlueSnake is correct that if you're using the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion (which I imagine you are), you won't have earned income for a Roth IRA.

You mention the country you're teaching in but not your resident country. Which country are you from and which currency are you using here?

There are definitely subreddits where this story would be appreciated! It just doesn't fit this one very well.

Is it a TIFU if the FU was intentional lawbreaking, with an understanding of what the consequences would be, over multiple years?

That's my favorite feature of the subreddit. I wouldn't follow r/flighty if it was just people asking questions about the app.

That definitely isn't the "new normal" for work travel, I've never heard of a company doing this before.

That being said, you've been out of work for a year. I would take it. If it's too much to handle, you're at least making money while searching for a new job.

I sympathize with your rant, but I don't think you're correct here, at least for the GEHA HDHP. The passthrough amounts are referred to as employer contributions by both GEHA and HSABank, not employee contributions. The annual limit isn't relevant here because the limit encompasses both employer and employee contributions (ie if your annual limit is $4,400, an employer contribution of $1,000 affects your limit the same as if you made the $1,000 contribution - you're down to $3,300 either way).

The Form 5498-SA, which is the tax form you receive for your HSA, does not distinguish between employer and employee contributions.

At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter as long as you're reporting the correct dollar amounts on your taxes.