>Mother is dragging me for doing nothing all day
>I try tell her Im working on my tech startup idea and Im waiting for the results of a government grant application to come back
>Tells me I need to go work in a real company like a big boy

I do NOT want to be a fucking wagie CAD monkey for 5 years at some bumfuck engineering plant with fake coworker friends getting railed by a boss and coming home to 'unwind' with senile-tier hobbies in the evenings just so that I MIGHT be promoted into a proper engineer position afterwards and then have to stick to the career forever.

t. Mechanical engineer