I run a modestly successful small gardening business. It took me a year to really get it going properly. For context im in my 30s and have worked in really demanding jobs to get into a position to start something.
Ever since I went full-time my sibling has had this attitude like I just won the lottery and wont share. Other people have also started acting like im driving around in a RollsRoyce with a monocle, I don’t really get it.
I give my sibling left over gardening supplies and i’ve sub contracted another friend who lost their job. Trying to share my success when I can. Whats with the hostility? Have other people experienced this kind of thing?
My mother-in-law once said about my mother, “it’s not like I’m rich. I don’t own a dance studio.”
I don’t think the dance studio has been profitable in any meaningful way ever. She stopped paying herself out of it when she got Social Security. Mom is solidly middle class, mostly due to inheritance from her parents, pension from the local, junior college, and probably insurance money from when my dad died.
There’s a class of people who think that if you own a business, you’re rich. Just ignore them.