Your social class

[badasschick]

Dude, I didn't even bother to vote on my union's contract this year because I'm so disgruntled.

Rhoda or Laura Ingals? What a mud fest!

only in LA!

 

[medjay]

Re: Elitist's create "class"....

If no one was around to point out differences in people for the purpose of division, envy, and to create some sort of imbalance, we would all be the same, just in different stages of income maturity.

I like the term "income maturity". Think I'll start using it from now on.

 

[sufisaint]

Born into a totally repressed waspy wealth family..

Went to law School got married lived in an upper middle class neighborhood...

Got divorced gave up law restarted my career in middle class but rural community in mortgage banking...

This year...moving into Trailer...while i build my house on the mountain in a poor apalachian community with my own hands... starting my own blue collar type company..

Eventually to a wandering mystic monk...free of all possesions

I am the only Salmon swimming down stream..back to the sea of universal consciouness...

 

[Pyper]

White collar, but not wealthy. Public schools all my life, usually had less spending money and toys than the other kids.

My parents grew up blue collar and quite poor. My mother, especially, still feels uncomfortable in what she sees as upper-class situations (such as Trader Joe's!) because in her mind she is still a child from a single-parent family in Compton. I owe my more privelegded status to my parents, who climbed the ladder by being the first in both of their families to go to college.

 

[Lost Cause]

Income maturity flowchart...

Highschool<
>minimum wage job/go to college
>job lead/mgr-continue college
>college completion-graduation
>entry level wage in new field of college study
>intermediate wages per tenure
>supervision field-additional education
>senior management
>CEO or executive officer
>general accruing of COLA/Perks
>Retirement
>consultant
>investment dividend income arrives
>play till you die!

*At anytime during the game, you can quit and go your own direction, and maybe start your own business.

 

[lobito]

I don't know what this thread is actually about, but I for one am willing to admit I have no class.

 

[Calamity Jane]

I grew up in a family of union stone masons. 'Bout as blue collar as you can get, down to the pick ups held together with bondo where the rust wasn't heavy enough, and the coors cans fillin up the trash barrels because they didn't burn with everything else.

Now, I'm a stay at home mom with an old but charming farm house outside of a tiny little town. I've got horses and chickens and dogs in the back yard. I guess I'm blue collar too.

Am I happy? Hell yeah. Do I wish for more? Only when I want another horse and can't afford to have it.

 

[Rambling Rose]

I look forward this time of year to a healthy tax refund. That should answer your question.

 

[Cheyenne]

*bump* for the day shift