So I have an advanced degree. I don't like to brag or say anything about it but it is the kind of degree that tomorrow I can just start a firm / business.. .like a CPA and charge people. At one point I was billed at $270 per hour (about 5 years ago).

So I am on a volunteer board and yesterday I brought up a project for us to do, which is completely in my expertise. I mean I could charge for this. I don't like to go down the reasons that I shouldn't have a problem doing this but this person who doesn't have any advanced degrees starts trying to suggest this is beyond my capabilities.

I literally had to go down my resume to get him to move even slightly. I could not believe the attitude.

He should have been skipping with glee that I wasn't charging $200 per hour for these free services but instead he was acting like I was just a stupid girl who couldn't handle it.

I remain enraged and kind of don't want to do the project anymore. But I do see the error.. I asked for permission. I shouldn't have asked. I should have just done. But still annoys me that it feels just because I don't go around telling everyone how great I am they then feel they can question me.

It feel like it has been this way my whole life. In high school I went to kind of a private school but then in college I went to a not well ranked college and then it was like because of that, that was all people thought I could do. My worth was directly equal to the last thing I did and if I didn't go around saying how great I was... no one could remember this stuff.

Frustrated.