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This is a great thread. Gonna bookmark it and read it some more when I have the time.

I just tried to explain what I do to my parents. It's best to just say. " computer stuff"

Nothing else makes sense. They just keep asking questions.

Odd.....I don't have any of these problems.......hmmm I have to write an
E-book on how to handle this.......*added to my endless todo list* :winkwink:

This is so true. Working from home isnt a "real job" in many peoples eyes, yet when you try to explain that there is almost always enough work to make you wish there was 48 hours/day, they think youre just full of crap. And spending all this time selling PORN as well.

Hell even when sleeping I dream about optimizing my google adsense campaigns. :)

What's her name?

I like this thread another story from me.
My father is retired has some money in property trusts funds, Tells everyone I dont really work for living. But bites me for 10k sort term loan untill one of his trust rolls over. So I lend him the money and ask him where did that come from from if I dont work.

funny thing is, they all say ah that´s so cool earning money for doing nothing blabla. but when you ask them why they don´t do/try it they have no real answer for it and just say: show me! why should i show anyone, i learned by myself and most others did so too..

"so when do you plan to get a real job?"

Thats the odd shit in my 8 years now doing this (and the hundreds that have ask this question) Ive had just one person who has really sat down and made it worth both our time to teach him.

The only person who really wanted to know how to market galleries and took what I gave them and polished it was Lady M

hell, I get 'it' more than most men and I get that stuff all the time too. I really hate the way people say 'your computer' as if it is on par with shooting up in the back room.

Often I translate it in my head to 'I am not smart enough to understand'

Lol. Anything technical usually makes people's eyes glaze over. They feign interest for 2 minutes then start thinking of ways to change the conversation or get away from you. Occasionally there are ones who are genuinely interested, and they are the ones to spot and take the time to answer their questions.

I.

I have heard." I work 8 hoiurs a dau and all you do is sit in front of the computer all day".
Most people just can't grasp that someone can work from home and enjoy it.
I know my 3rd ex was just jealous that I didn't have leave home to work and make more than she does/will.

just tell them to shut the fuck up
it works for me

Of course these days most of them sit in front of a computer all day too but it is just at a 9 to 5 job and yet that is somehow better.

Yup, and the funny thing is that they don't even stop to consider which is longer... 8 hours or all day?

Who gets off easier in that scenario? The person who works as long as they sleep or the person who works all day with little to no sleep?

I hear that all the time and I ask why should I? Some people just don't get it.


:(

I'm going to jump in on this rant...

For the past umpteen years, I've had to deal with this as we all probably have. I'm working, and I'll be kindly interrupted by anyone surrounding me to take out garbage, fix something in the house, ask questions about their personal computer issues, go to the store for something, etc. It seems the concept of me sitting at a desk with a computer doesn't count as "work". Noone will ever understand you're working unless you're A) in an office or B) at some manual labor job. Your family, friends, etc. don't care you're making money off of your box of PCBs and metal. It sucks, believe me. I turn the music up so I don't hear the knocks on my door, believe me we're all there brother. Not to mention I sit in front of this little box from 5AM until 8PM most days.

Regards,

JM

Then you say "Why should I take a pay cut?"

Then you say "I can't help you're an idiot."

Funny how actors, professsion athletes, musical artists don't have "real jobs" because because they are millionaires and are famous that's ok. An actor can make one movie in which he/she spend maybe 3 months making then take 2 years off and hey that's ok. Does Warren Buffet have a "real" job?

I work some shitty jobs in my life and it's funny how these people didn't give me props for having a "real" job back then. Hmmmmmmm.

I just email this thread to my gf :upsidedown:

"if it wasn't for people like me, you wouldn't have this (computers)"

"get out and get your hands dirty (specifically mechanic work)"

My gf's dad still gives me a hard time... for the most part, he forgets. I can convince him one day and then a week later, he still thinks I'm just sitting on my ass and having fun all day.

As soon as he opens his mouth, I immediately swing the laptop around, hand it to him and say "here, you do it then"

The look on his face as he stares directly into the code of a php file is priceless. :1orglaugh

At that point I say "Doesn't look like that much fun, does it?"

oh geese.. sometimes I get remarks like "You going to *play* the computer"

like its a fucking flute or something.. like they have no idea what a computer is... just think when you first saw a computer and then you will know what the idiots think a computer can do... we are the elite of the internet that understands what can be done. ;-)

I concur wholeheartedly

you just hit the nail right on the head man :thumbsup

Yep this post is bloody brilliant my thoughts exactly :thumbsup

My dad would say shit like..."you're addicted to that computer."

As if I was sitting in front of it all day chatting and playing games.

I wish I could turn this infernal beast off and just walk away and go back to a 9-5 knowing that once I clocked out I was on my time and only my time.

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Great fucking read man :)

My sister in law still thinks I am playing, not working. She doesn't 'get' it....she thinks I can drop everything to go pick up her kid because she's at work and I'm home........so, my solution is I no longer try to explain.

Great post and I think almost all of us feel your pain or have felt it at one point in time. I actually had a friend make a comment the other day to another friend saying that I fuck around online all day because she see's my MSN on for 12-16 hours a day. Luckily the friend that she said it to has a clue and told her it's my job and that I don't sit on MSN chatting to friends all day. Like wtf, she's been to my house, knows that I work online see's that I have shit. No unemployed person on welfare or EI or what have you (that is not retired) is not living in a .5 million dollar condo strutting around with Chanel, Louis Vuitton or Prada etc...My family as in parents know that I work online, it took a while buy they get it. The rest of them well it doesn't matter...

But to assume that I don't do anything or that I have the "easy" life or that their job is more demanding than mind can suck my dick! Just because I work from home doesn't mean that I can just take off and do shit when they ask, why? Because I am working. Sure my hours are flexible, but if you have a lunch hour at 1pm and want me to meet you and I can't, it's not because I am playing video games or downloading music...jerkheads! lol. Thanks for letting me release :P

i work from 8:30 till 6:00 sometimes

wow a bunch of disgruntled people, I'd prefer they not know what we do, not know how much fun we have in this industry and not know what a tight knit group we are

Because you have no friends outside of this industry, that's why you are not to concerned about having to explain! :P:P

Now how would she know your MSN is on for 12-16 hours day unless SHE was online 12-16 a day? Tell that friend she need to find a better hobby. Other people are jealous because they work at jobs they hate for crap pay and they don't have the freedom we do when we work.

Awesome thread, I go through this every day as well.

I sometimes even go till 6:30pm

To me that would be the greatest benefit of a 9-5... knowing that when you get off work, you don't have to deal with it until 9am the next day. Or in a few days if it's the weekend... or for 1-2 weeks if you are on vacation.

I feel that I have to bring my laptop everywhere I go on vacation so in case anything happens or if I need to update anything I can.

unappreciatedwebmasters.com !!!! :1orglaugh

there is so much truth in this thread. cept for the female part. My wife understands whan I'm working and leaves me in peace.

Exactly.

Wow great post. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person that feels that way.

yep, get that problem all the time. before i moved i used to have my old friends come around any time of the day or night thinking i could hang out whenever since they think i can just work whenever. and sure i can to some extent but if i never work i never make any money.

thats one major thing they don't get. a lot of people can go into work, do their little tasks and fuck around the majority of the time but if we don't work, we don't make the money. for the most part its a commission based job.

also IM's is a good point. my girlfriend is always saying im chatting to whores and sluts on there but its just business contacts im talking to.

my friends used to get pissed off when i would tell them how much i was making (this was back in the early days) so i stopped. now i'll just make up some fake number about how much i earn and how much i work. its just easier.

Great post ... can I steal it for a blog ?

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that's just GREAAAAAT