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What class are you according to this?

252 replies

TropicalTenticle · 11/11/2022 11:48

www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/2013/newsspec_5093/index.stm

I'll start. I work in research. Lone parent. Rent. Minimal savings (think under 1k). I'm an 'emergent service worker' - never heard of this before!

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SellFridges · 11/11/2022 12:45

Elite. Absolute nonsense, which I suspect is skewed by the value of our house (Midlands) and the fact we socialise with mostly professionals. Believe me, I wish I knew an electrician or a plumber to have a beer with, it would save us a fortune!

Bemyclementine · 11/11/2022 12:46

Established middle class.

I'm from a northern working class background. But went to a "good" secondary school, hence knowing a wide variety if people socially from farm workers and cleaners to lecturers and artists. I have no money. None

JaneJeffer · 11/11/2022 12:47

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ancientgran · 11/11/2022 12:49

I'm Technical Middle Class. Hilarious as the child of immigrants, grew up in the most notorious slum in my city of birth, left school at 15 with no qualifications and was pregnant at 17. How I got to be any sort of middle class is a mystery to me.

Appleblum · 11/11/2022 12:49

Elite 🤔

IToldYouAmillionTimesAlready · 11/11/2022 12:49

According to that, I'm Established Middle Class. What crap. I'm working class, and bloody proud of it

OneFrenchEgg · 11/11/2022 12:50

Elite.
Ha fucking ha im wearing fluffy socks and pajama bottoms for teams meetings as I'm too skint to put the heating on. Seems a love if the arts explains a lot Grin

whatthejuice · 11/11/2022 12:51

Elite 🤭
Assumed we'd come in as traditional middle class types.
My National Trust pass must've upped the ante 😂

SleepingStandingUp · 11/11/2022 12:51

Emergent service group too. Cash poor, culture rich.

BobbyBobbyBobby · 11/11/2022 12:54

Elite.

Gingernaut · 11/11/2022 12:54

Traditional Working Class average age 66

I'm 54!!

Purpleavocado · 11/11/2022 12:55

Technical middle class, neither myself nor DH work in tech and we are both from working class backgrounds, though I guess mine was more lower middle class.

Athenen0ctua · 11/11/2022 12:55

Precariat, though the social and cultural categories were scored quite high?

EmmaGrundyForPM · 11/11/2022 12:58

Apparently I'm elite!! I have no idea how. I work in local government at a middle management level, dc educated at local comp. I suspect the value of my house played a factor, but only because its shot up.in value.

lawofselfish · 11/11/2022 12:58

Elite because we have loads of savings and three properties. My interests are probably more working class though

ImperialCrusade · 11/11/2022 13:00

Suspect some of these results might be a bit different if people put in what their property was worth in 2013 when this was first published!

yossell · 11/11/2022 13:01

I got Traditional working class for which they say: "This class group scores low for economic, social and cultural factors, but they do have some financial security."

Get to f& bbc! Dad was working class, but I've been a university lecturer for most of my career, studied and taught at Oxbridge, and (in my eyes) am pretty comfortable.

What really annoys me is 'group scores low for...cultural factors'. Not only is this an insult to the traditional working class, but like my dad did I read a lot of literature (they never even asked about reading habits), am learning two languages, play classical piano and blues/funk guitar, and write on my academic research. Don't f-ing tell me I score low on f-ing cultural factors you f-ing w**(&&(.

Sorry -- my working class roots showing through there.

MrsKeats · 11/11/2022 13:01

Elite omg!

SpottyStripyDuvet · 11/11/2022 13:05

I remember doing this back in 2013 when it first came out. Can't remember what I was then but it definitely wasn't elite which I am coming up as now (am not!). I am in the same job and same house but suspect it is a combination of property value and having a bit more in savings (thanks covid) that has pushed me up.

flatpack1 · 11/11/2022 13:12

Traditional working class. Sounds right tbf

Runestone · 11/11/2022 13:13

Emergent service worker

Sounds about right. No money, but lots of interests! Work in the service sector.

IhearyouClemFandango · 11/11/2022 13:15

Established middle. Which was what I would expect tbh.

theemmadilemma · 11/11/2022 13:18

Elite which is a bag of bollocks.

I don't really do cultural in that sense, although I appreciate the arts. And I finished secondary and did a year of college, so no.

Both DH and I just worked hard and have ok incomes, my pension pot is a resonable sum, which I guess it what influenced it.

womanofthemoon · 11/11/2022 13:19

Established middle class, I am definitely not😂

ShellGrotto · 11/11/2022 13:20

MandyMotherOfBrian · 11/11/2022 12:29

Elite - yes we’re a high income household but the rating seems to based largely on enjoying cultural activities (theatre, classical music and museums 🫤) and socialising with people from a wide range of jobs. Which I find quite insulting tbh, as if only Elites do those things. We didn’t even go to Uni or Private schools so it wasn’t prejudiced by that. What a load of tosh.

Me too, but I think it's because they (oddly?) don't ask questions about your parents' jobs, family of origin etc -- so, yes, we have a healthy income now, I like opera and art galleries, and know a huge range of people socially (there wasn't a single job on that list that wasn't the job of someone I regularly see socially, whether they're a relative or a friend/acquaintance), but isn't it also relevant that my parents were a cleaner and a bin man, both left school at 12 and struggled with literacy, we were extremely poor when I was growing up, and that I was the first person in any branch of the family to stay in school till 17, far less go to university?

To me that's fully as relevant to my social class as household income or whether I know CEOs/academics/postal workers and prefer opera to hip-hop.