AITA for walking out in the middle of a date because he laughed at my job and said it wasn’t a real career?

I’m 26 and have been a hairstylist for the last six years. I work hard, I’m fully booked most weeks, and I actually make good money definitely not some cute little hobby kind of thing. I went on this date with a guy I met through a mutual friend. we’d been texting for a bit, and he seemed smart, funny, and normal enough.

Dinner started out fine. we were talking about random stuff, laughing, whatever. then he asks what I do, and I say I’m a hairstylist. He laughs. not in a that’s cool kind of way, more like he thought I was joking. then he says, that’s not your long-term plan, right?

I told him no, that’s my career. and he goes, you’re not gonna be doing that forever though… I mean, come on. that’s not a real job.

I kind of froze. I didn’t even know what to say. He went on about how I’m too smart to just be in a salon forever and how his ex was in finance and super driven. I barely touched my food. Eventually, I just said, you clearly don’t respect what I do, so I think I’m gonna head out, paid for my half, and left.

He texted later saying I was sensitive and that he was just teasing. my best friend says I did the right thing, but one of my coworkers said I should’ve stayed, finished the meal, and not let it get to me.