I get irked on a weekly basis by how we get judged on what we do however im now getting to the point where it's becoming amusing.
I quit my job as a police officer last October after 10 years of watching corruption, bullying sexism etc going on around me.
I'm well educated, I've seen and done and dealt with things most people will never experience. Whilst working full time shifts I retrained in beauty, ran my business whilst still working in the force so all I did was sleep work sleep work.
I quit cos the time was right and now work out of my home salon. But business is still slow so I clean houses on the side. I work with a lovely lady and I go to lots of different houses, mostly where women that live off their rich husbands and have never done a days work in their life and can't be bothered to clean. It now amuses me how they look me up and down, judge me on the job I do having no idea who I am or what I have done over the years.
I work from 8 in the morning till 10 at night every day of the week to earn peanuts really, whilst these women sit around doing nothing. So at first it annoyed me but now I look at them as being a bit sad and lonely - they are dependant on keeping there husbands happy whereas I go can do as I please and have only myself to depend on.
I cleaned the house of a lady who was rather wealthy, well her older husband was, she used to spend all day sorting out her wardrobe. Putting outfits together and shopping. She was very lonely and confided as much to me, saying "there is only so much more of my life I can spend in this fake world, I'm in unfulfilled in life"
I thought, how sad to have to confide in your hired help..
Maybe they are not looking down their noses? Maybe they are jealous of the fact you have the strength and skill to be self sufficient