Naw man I came from a very, very average American working class family. My parents don't support me financially! They have been supportive in other ways though like watching a lot of my races, crewing for me, and always encouraging me to follow my dreams in running and education etc.
Heck, I make more income per year personally than my Dad every made in his 30 years of public school teaching. How he supported a family of 5 on that income is beyond me.... but then again we grew up in rural Oregon. I do remember the few times we went skiing in my childhood though and my parents were like: "this is a 'rich person' sport".....we always had to rent all the gear and it was this big special treat we got to do like once every 3-4 years.
Truth be told (and you can check with Rojo on this) I was considered so "poor" by Cornell that I got so much financial aid that it was more affordable for me to go to a private Ivy League school than to stay in-state at a public college paying in-state tuition. However, I worked part-time during college to help make ends meet (for like $8/hour) as my parents had a $0 contribution to my college tuition fund. But thank goodness for scholarships and grants and even federal student loans (which took me over 12 years after college to pay off still).
But anyway, "online running coaching" is certainly a job and can make one quite a bit of money. So is "social media influencing" (esp if you have a lot of followers on your accounts...like six figures). My YouTube channel alone is a fairly decent business income stream. But yeah, I'm certainly not "rich" or even close to the top 10 or 1% in the US financially like a lot of "pro athletes and influencers" in Colorado come from a lot of generational wealth it seems. The "trust-fund athletes" and those supported a ton financially by their parents (esp in their 20s and 30s) are a dime-a-dozen in expensive places like Boulder.
As far as my pulmonary embolism goes: Could it it have been from the vaccine? Certainly. Pretty rare still though and very unlucky for me if that was the case... And very hard to prove with certainty...so it would be irresponsible to broadcast that without more concrete evidence. Could it have been from real COVID or about a dozen other things? Certainly. Also rare, but not as rare. I'm science and numbers guy, and I know statistically that one is more likely to get blood clots from an actual covid infection. I'm not saying that that was what happened my case, but the truth is I don't know...and the doctors don't know for sure. Does that make the vaccine a net positive or a net negative for humanity and the world at large? Do the benefits outweigh the risks for the vast majority of people (regardless of my personal case as we all know from science data analysis that an "n=1" story is a crappy sample size)?
PS I didn't get a new car either....I've had the same 10+ year old Subaru for like the last 6 years....bought it used with over 100,000 miles on it....so stop spreading lies