You're a progeek, profan, protaku – or want to be. You're working hard your career, you're living your dreams. You're a pinnacle of potential – and perhaps are even realizing it.
Except people don't get it.
You know the drill. You meet people who figure that hobby of yours is useless. You have to explain again and again that you do actually get paid for what you do. You have people wondering why you "waste your time" on the things you love. Yep, it's the usual "how how can that make you a living" routine we're all sick of.
So, let me ask this: Are you going out of the way to communicate with your critics?