To not actually know what social class I am?

[TheDogAteIt]

Their seems to be a lot of middle class vs working class vs chav etc on AIBU. So what criteria do you need to fill in order to be in one of these?

Maybe all the knowledgable MN's out there can help, so I can behave accordingly?

Education - Uni
Job - Public sector worker (wage £23000 pa)
Married - Yes
Child - One
Age I became a mother - Mid-twenties
BF? - Was crap at it, gave up at 6 weeks
Home - Average 3 bed semi (owned) in non-posh, non-rough area

Other suggestions for class criteria welcomed

Cat penises are prickly???

"Hassled
Also, did you inherit furniture (from the living or dead - either counts) or did you have to go to Ikea?"

What about the option of finding someone elses dead relatives furniture in a skip or fly tipped?.

GetOrfMoiLand you are definitely middle class!

Ryoko :o. I suspect skip diving is probably Upper Class.

Have to agree with Madame -having a degree does suddenly make you middle class - you can move from working to middle. (That is where the middle class came from. They moved because of aspirations).

but how many people have pointless degrees that do not let them get a decent job?

Or a person who I knew who was addicted to studying, he had 4 degrees but is on benefits. no one would emply him because he could not interact with people.

I have genuinely no idea what I am class-wise!

I know I come from a middle class family (parents both professional public sector workers, own their home etc etc). So am I middle class by default? But I'm pretty sure I don't fit whatever criteria there is for being middle class in my own right IYSWIM. For example:

Education - A levels + BTEC/NVQ work-based qualifications.
Home - 2 bed rented flat
Children - 2, both born out of wedlock
Marital status - engaged to DC's father
Age I became a mother - 29
Breastfeeding - yes, until youngest was 11 months.
Job - part time NHS employee (earning around £10,000 pa)
DP Job - self employed carpenter (earning about £20,000 pa)
DP family - totally working class (council house, mother works as a carer in a nursing home on minimum wage, father was on disability allowance until he died)

So where do I fall now?

Hassled, i am so glad i have bamboozzled someone. there is no point in putting people in to classes, it breads contempt.

I thought it was more about whether you say loo or toilet, serviette or napkin...not at all about how much you or your parents earn!

same as me Bluesheep, we are un classable which is the best class to be in

Scurryfunge

my mum didn't she fell off the ladder and has been complaining about it ever since "my father owned a shop and drive Bentleys how did I end up in this mess" and so on and so forth.

My Grandma on my fathers side lived in a 3 story house in Chiswick does that make me middle class .

You're all bonkers. Why do MNers just love to list what they have or what word they use for the loo. It does not matter what class are OP, and any one who thinks it does matter isn't worth a wank.

I've never had much of a clue where our family fits:

DH - Son of an army officer & housewife. Grew up in a big house in a smart area. Travelled the world. He left school with about 0.5 GCSEs and now works part time in a factory for not much more than minimum wage.

Me - Daughter of a market trader and careworker. Grew up in a council flat (was homeless more than once.) Left education after A-level. Now a qualified accountant on a lot more than national average.

Does my occupation and earnings, DH's middle class background and us being homeowners make us middle class? Or does my lack of degree, working class background and the fact that we live in an ex-council property make us working class?

I don't really care, but I do enjoy winding up my Mum's 'angry class warrior' partner. My refusal to fit into his preconceived little boxes make him so angry

Lower middle, perhaps

Have you got a BBC newsreader accent?

That might put you up half a rung.

Its not like footie. Class leagues are not precise. Have fun with it, "Gabby"

i did this quiz and came out upper class :)

www.blogthings.com/whatclassareyouquiz/

americans, huh, what do they know?

Serviette is NOT a word.

Fuck it here we go the full story

Fathers side owned an estate in Surry until the 19th century, grandma lived in a 3 story house in Chiswich (complete with maid-less maids quarters).

other grandparents, grandfather was a professional soldier (not sure what rank) later owned a shop and drive bentleys (grandma from Canada so no real class system there).

Parents, mum didn't work, dad was a civil servent on 14k, lived in council flat and had a car, I never went to school but went to college, now live in private rented flat with DF and DS, DF gets 23 and a half k.

So is class who you are now or where you come from and how much time needs to pass between circumstances changing to make you class as something else if it's all in the heritage?

Thats why I just go by the here and now.

Also, it's all bollocks.

Half my family are Oxbridge crusty types in the home counties, the other half live in mud huts in Africa. I do not over-egg the omelette.

I speak like a toff, refuse to acknowledge that 'serviette' is a word (because it isn't, and brings me out in hives), am aware of the true meaning of 'dessert' and yet ... am 22, 39 weeks pregnant and unmarried (though not a single mother so I suppose I don't tick that box).

So what am I? Confusing, probably.

i maintain that even if your parents are working class, going to university and holding a high paying job mean you have ascended to the middle class.

Of course it's a word.

I have a title (which I never use)
I am a Socialist Worker
I have no home
I have no education
I own a private plane.

Wassat then?

Am aware it is present in the OED ... :(