I work remotely providing high level monitoring and evaluation and IT solutions to a non profit which has also got me an in on a government sponsored project regionally. I'm doing well for myself and my family, pulling in well more than my wife working in education at a major state college (not bragging... just setting the scene). Does that protect me from snide comments from family members and friends about working from home, including a professor aunt and grandmother who thinks I spend my days practicing baking (wtf!)? Or my wife who has multiple times insisted that this is irregular and that I owe the situation to sheer luck and not one of previous sacrifice, maneuvering and qualification? Or my friend who thinks my job skills won't transfer to other "real jobs"? No way. Those fucks are jaded, jealous, and ignorant of exactly what you do and what you had to do to get there. Take that other guy's advice: fuck them. Concentrate on what you're doing to improve your life and start drilling away at it. I'm getting certified in database management while pulling in 2 paychecks for job descriptions specializing in remote data collection and teaching myself as many programming languages as possible while starting an agricultural unmanned aerial photography business on the side. I know the value of my time and how I spend it and I take it seriously. People often don't care to learn and understand your life as well as you understand it yourself and they rarely have the incentive to take you seriously, even if they are family, sad to say. It fucking hurts to hear it from loved ones, but keep that stiff upper lip and let it fuel you to become a more motivated person than you ever thought possible. Like you said, with some people you can't win. I've seen that with family members who start successful, traditional, new business ventures (construction, rentals) and have family and community conspire against their success. I wouldn't expect anything better from people learning about you making it work from your home office. People are a bunch of bastards. Have a plan and stick to it. You do you, share your life and success with those who care most about you, and fuck the rest.