What class are you?

Anouchka

CharllieSays wrote: »

I'm a highly educated poor person. I don't care what class I am, as long as my salary increases soon!

Same here!!!!

mapk

In one of my own

Kim_kim

Lagoon wrote: »

To me, working class defines those that work as supermarket checkout operators, or do other similar 'low skilled' jobs, often on a wage rather than a salary, and perhaps taking benefits to supplement their income. Or, the unemployed with good reason. Usually they're renters, privately or through the council, and they have little spare income. Underclass is more, to me, about living in an incredibly bad environment, having no money and doing nothing about it.

I'm working class. I work for my living, I have to work.
I didn't get a great education at my inner city school in a rough area, but I did achieve a professional qualification in higher education as an adult. I manage a large team, including other lower level managers.
I throw the odd dinner party.
I'm certainly not eligible for benefits. In fact I believe you have to earn over 35k to not be a drain on the state in some form or other, I'm not a drain on the state.

Tarry

I'm definetely working class. But I do not rely on the state for benefits or anything like that. I'm proud to be working class
But than I am not interested in Blackpool or Benidorm nor going down the bookies or football or reading the paper as per an example.

This is an old thread anyway.

ipod_killed_the_musicshop

Well, my mum's parents couldn't afford a TV. My parents lived in a flat above a post office when my mum's oldest (I have older half siblings on my dad's side) was born. The lowest point was when she wasn't sure if they could afford to go to the local park and pay 15p for a drink for my brother, but decided they could as it would mean they would turn the heating off.


Me, I've had to learn to survive myself. If anyone knows Nuneaton, there's a long hill called Tuttle Hill between the town centre and camphill where I used to live. When I was unemployed and living off savings, I walked from my flat in the far end of camphill to the train station (in the town centre) and back on consecutive days in smart shoes, as I wasn't sure if I could afford the bus or not. This was in shoes I hadn't worn my feet into as I wasn't working, as I went to Birmingham/Tamworth etc for job interviews. Needless to say I had blisters on both feet for at least a week afterwards. Not having my lunch till tea time when I got home, as I wasn't sure if I could afford to have lunch out was also the norm.


I've had to take pretty much whatever job I could get. Walking along country paths in the dark in winter, covered in muddy puddles, risking life and limb on a scooter, working night shifts in warehouses and getting up in the middle of the night. I wear every cut on my hands with pride, and some of the offices I've worked in have been even worse.


So I would say I'm from a working class family. My parents are desperate to think of themselves as middle class but then they're Labour politicians, and it's common knowledge that a Tory politician is a middle/upper class person who tries to convince everyone he's working class and vice versa...

Kim_kim

ipod_killed_the_musicshop wrote: »

My parents are desperate to think of themselves as middle class

You background sounds much harder & poorer than mine & I wouldn't dream of saying mine was Middle class.

I know class is about more than money, but I think middle class means having a certain amount of it to either send your children to public school or buy a house In the right catchment area for a top state school. It's about hobbies & lifestyle.

We had a colour tv in the late 60s & I have been skiing, I'm still very much working class though.

ipod_killed_the_musicshop

I think you've got it. To me, middle class is not looking over your shoulder. Having a bit of luck here and there, and having a bit to pass on to your kids isn't middle class, being the sort of person who goes on homes under the hammer is.

Linda_D_2

I'm definitely upper upper class

HulkRogan

Middle I guess, I do not really think much about it though. Could be on my way down.