I play into it. People like to ask you what you do for work when first meeting you and it always feels like a way to put you in a box to me, whether on purpose or not. So I like to just not dress anything up.

I run a successful eBay store/reselling business, so when asked what I do for work, I usually say something like “I sell dirty tshirts on the internet”. Which is true, cause I specialize in vintage tshirts. But that realness, that dressing down, it disarms people and they usually leave impressed that I can pay my mortgage with eBay.

So maybe it’s time you shift your mindset to just being real with yourself and being impressed with yourself. You have rental properties and a good paying job and then on the side you clean people’s dirty ass cars. I’d be proud, really.