What do you think of people who accuse you of laziness or failure because you did not match their life schedule?

I had two church people judge me for returning to school in my 20s to redo my degree after a period of confusion made me neglect my studies, I was too young to understand that education was important and did not apply myself during my first attempt at a degree. The second time I got straight As and raised my cumulative GPA from a 1.0 to a 3.06 on a 4.0 scale. I had people say my job was fake cause I had not been published yet but that is because I devoted 88% of my post graduation career to manufacturing algorithms so I could mass produce books at a later date.

What do you think of people who accuse you of laziness or failure because you did not match their life schedule?
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