I know I’m not a surgeon/coal miner/whatever but does anyone else have family /extended family that will question incessantly whether you work hard? I was on the bench for a little bit and had a cousin who got the ax from being on there too long so that may be some of it. But even when I’m on a client: “do you ACTUALLY work 40 hours?” “My son has 5 clients and works 80 hours while walking uphill both ways in the snow”. I don’t know if they’re saying they want me to work more or they want (ctnd)

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Just ignore ‘em :)

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I think you should care less about what others think. Subconsciously seems like you are triggered by this for some reason, perhaps worth examining the source of this yourself introspectively

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(ctnd) to work less. I don’t really need someone saying I work hard either it’s just annoying they keep saying I don’t. I guess because I’m a happy person that left the nest and is happy with his situation they got to figure out a way to question it.

Nope

Why is "working hard" a baseline for anything? If someone asks me if I work hard, I laugh and tell them that I hardly work 20 hours in a week. I'm extremely efficient and hit my deadlines, and I'm not in this business to grind.

Even when I work 70hrs most are coasting. Writing emails and making ppts aren't hard work. The analysis is the hard part and that's probably only 40% of my time in a good week. The rest is meetings and other BS I'd rather not be doing

Spend $500 and have a helicopter drop you off at the next family event and end that discussion forever

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