I can completely relate. I used to clean homes for a living. You can classify this as one of the least prestigious jobs. People would constantly ask what I do for a living and I felt so degraded by their reactions. Especially when they would ask you to work for them, which was fine at times however when I had a personal relation to those people (friends, aquaintences, friends of friends, ect).. that treated you like you were some personal maid for hire, that is when I had issues. They discussed it almost with a smirk on their face. I had one girl make a comment about how she would "never downgrade to scrubbing toilets" on my own facebook! Although it was my own official business, no matter how I worded it or how fancy I tried to make it sound, people just looked down at you.
I think that under many circumstances it is a jealousy issue. People pay and dedicate so much time to their education, they work 5 days a week for 8 hour days on average, they are unhappy and stressed out at work and feel like they are going nowhere. I on the other hand? I worked my own hours, I made at LEAST twice as much more per hour than a person with a degree and a high paying job. On average I worked a few hours a day, 3-4 times a week and was able to support myself financially. I had zero stress from work, I was completely happy and had I taken the job further, I could have had a successful business I could solely run from home. Who wouldnt want that? Before I ever got into it, my girlfriend at the time had a similar schedule and pay with her business. She had loads of free time and loads of money while I was working a 9-5 job and Ill admit I envied her to no end and was totally jealous. I had to do it for myself.
You have a job in which people DREAM about. Im willing to bet any one of those fools would kill to have a job like that. Its just one of those things that most people would never be successful at or they could never do.
The most important thing that I realized was peoples thoughts should not dictate my happiness or my job. I am successful, I am happy and I should now give that up because a few people look down on me? Anyone who genuinely cares about you and is worth being in your life would want to see you be successful, regardless of whether its not up to their standards. I brushed off everyones negative comments and atitudes. I ended up putting my business on hold for family reasons however I am going to get back into it. Its your career, your life, its what you do and you decide whats best, dont let anyone else do it for you.
