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?
There wad a survey done by Solnick and Hemenway that gave people a choice of working at a company making 100k a year but your coworkers all make 200k OR work at a company for 50k but your coworkers make 25k. Out of 250 participants, about half chose to make 50k. It’s a wretched thing, but that’s how many people are wired.
Thats insane. Yeh I just never anticipated it. I think it doesn’t help my wife also has a small business. People don’t appreciate how hard it was for us both to transition out of the workforce, was not fun. One of us was basically working like crazy to cover the other while we started up. I’m still tired from that and it was years ago lol