There's a few threads like this, but it's good that you are sharing your experience.
Jobs, when sustainable/stable, are great. An employee is paid because they create excess value for the employer, and by extension the customer, in addition to their wage/salary. This qualifies jobs as 'productive'.
People that do not see the big picture, but do value their own jobs, will start to notice you are creating value when you create jobs. As in, you hiring people. When you hire people, you become their customer/client, and others have to value you more as such consciously and subconsciously. That is at least when my family/friends started taking me seriously. I sell products they consider ridiculous and have no need for, but they can still respect me for how I go about it.
However, the first and main benefactors of your endevours are your potential customers, so focus on them.
This is a transactional/materialistic mindset, but reality and your personal position in it is very tied to this.
Jobs, when sustainable/stable, are great. An employee is paid because they create excess value for the employer, and by extension the customer, in addition to their wage/salary. This qualifies jobs as 'productive'.
People that do not see the big picture, but do value their own jobs, will start to notice you are creating value when you create jobs. As in, you hiring people. When you hire people, you become their customer/client, and others have to value you more as such consciously and subconsciously. That is at least when my family/friends started taking me seriously. I sell products they consider ridiculous and have no need for, but they can still respect me for how I go about it.
However, the first and main benefactors of your endevours are your potential customers, so focus on them.
This is a transactional/materialistic mindset, but reality and your personal position in it is very tied to this.