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?
Not as an owner myself, but growing up my parents were small business owners. It wasn’t so bad in elementary school because I went to a private school but once I started public school people were absolutely convinced that we must be rolling in money because our last name was on a building. I can promise you over and over again that that was not even close to the case. My mom lived in a constant state of anxiety that at any minute we could lose everything.
I got all kinds of s***. I think the craziest was this guy in high school who was adamant that I couldn’t be into punk rock music or the scene because we were probably just way too wealthy and upper class. So I found it quite humorous when junior year his mom bought a house just a couple doors down from us. When he became my neighbor was about when he shut up.