am i working class....

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i always class myself as working class. I work.. all be it part time, my DH works the same hours but is classed as full time.

he works making pickles, i work for the police. we do not own our own home we rent (more circumstance than anything and too old now to change it).

we earn about 55k a year and a further 10k in pensions i guess. my children are educated too university level, i managed an o level or 2 and we holiday maybe 3 times a year?

Why do you want to put yourself into a bracket?

Working class doesn't mean a person who works. Middle class is largely defined by employment type too.

Does it matter?

and you’re very very proud of you’re circumstances i suspect 😉

just curiosity

Yes you're working class.

ah...

It means nothing. I come from an ex council house. Parents are factory workers. Mum worked as a dinnerlady from when we started school to when she retired at 58. Dad has now retired as well at 62.

Neither me or dp went to Uni, but I am now a manager at the company I work for and so is dp and he owns his own business too. We started off in HA housing, but now own. Aren't married.

Are you allowed to self identify!?

Few people fit into traditional definitions now, especially as more people go to university.

It's also often the case that you can only definitely classify people if you use offensive stereotypes about interests, behaviours, attitudes etc associated with working class people.

I'd say you were working class, it's all ridiculous though. I think it's supposed to be defined by what you are born into.. So if I won the Euro millions tomorrow I'd still be working class but any children I had from that point onwards would be upper class?