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    I agree also and I find their snobbery a bit offensive. I know it's wrong, but if they are real a-holes I sometimes cannot resist the urge to knock them down a notch or two. And that's when I weave into the conversation that I have a degree in applied physics from Ga Tech and formerly made over 200k/year as a director/founding partner for a multinational communication company.

    The looks I get are PRICELESS. And the response is nearly always the same; "Why did you quit?" To which I reply in a very polite and self-sacrificial tone; "My children and my family are far more important to me than money or power. And the fast track corporate life just demanded that I spend too much time way from them. So I quit. Now I am never more than 10 miles from home, schedule my work around my kids activities, and get to work in the fresh air and sunshine all day. Sure, it's been an adjustment getting by on about 1/2 what I used to make, but that is a sacrifice that I am willing to accept."

    And in the course of seemingly polite conversation, I have said/implied;

    1. Despite my dirty/bleach stained clothes, I have an advanced degree in a subject that you probably failed.

    2. I made as much or more than you at a very young age. That I do not now is by choice.

    3. I care more about my kids than you do.

    4. I still make enough money to be in the top 10% and I am 20 years younger than you.

    5. I do what I love and love what I do.

    Before the flaming starts, I know it is wrong, hateful, boastful, ugly, and totally unchristianlike. And I'm really not the arrogant jerk this post makes me sound like. Or maybe I am, and I just don't want to admit it to myself. But either way, it feels GREAT whem someone is looking down their nose at you like garbage and with just a few words you can alter their paradigm so dramatically that you can feel their discomfort and humiliation hanging in the air like fog.

    I get that in the greaser world sometimes from large contractors who installed the duct work and/or fans upside down and I am the one to get them to bend over and fix it. Usually starts through email like ," who is this guy and why do I have to listen to him".

    So stoked to slap them around and then get them to fix it for a customer. My customers are way stoked. I dont know why anyone has to talk down to others the way they do. Most big wig contractors rolling a huge lifted truck and 10 bedroom homes are usually soo under water with debt. And that goes for a lot of the hob nob rich people who are living a lie to keep up with status. When the mechanic who makes $40-70,000 has more money then both of the said examples.

    Great job!

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