To want to change careers because I miss my working class roots?

[LSCC]

I'm from a very working class background and working class family. Just generations and generations of working class. I was and still am the only one in my family to go to university and I've somehow gotten myself through the doors into a very middle class career. I'm just so unhappy there. Every conversation reminds me of how different I am. I have assimilated in some ways - the only reason I started travelling abroad was because I was sick of how often travel came up in conversation. Corporate DEI and how important a diverse workforce is, yet one of the first questions you'll be asked is what school you went to - expecting me to answer with some boarding school that they may have played a netball match or two with, rather than a local comprehensive that was rated 'needs improvement' by Ofsted. Being asked where I ski? Erm... I'm polite and friendly with colleagues obviously, but going from those kinds of conversations to back around my friends and family is such a culture shock.

I just don't think this kind of pretence is worth it anymore, and when I look back on the different jobs I've had the happiest ones have been when I have been surrounded by people with a similar background to me.

Does anyone else on here from a working class background struggle with this?

The only and the best thing you can do is to be yourself. If being yourself means changing career then so be it, but you don't have to. Gradually you'll probably start to talk more like the people you see every day and not feel so different.

It doesn't have to be about how expensive something is though. You can be solidly middle class but be employed in something not particularly well paid whereas the plumber who fixes your tap may well earn a lot more than you but he's still working class.

As you say travellers like horse riding as well as upper and middle class people but they tend to do it in a different way. They don't tend to have the same type of horses or pay for their horse to be kept in stables and have riding lessons etc, the horses I've seen near the travellers camp which I sometimes drive past are on a long chain on the verge next to the dual carriageway, they're filthy and look very neglected.

Generalisation I know but if you were middle class you'd definitely know about children's names being a class signifier. You don't get many middle class Jaydens I'd guess. Again with tv, it's a generalisation and of course doesn't apply to everyone but more working class people watch ITV and more middle class people watch BBC4 and listen to Radio 4.

Again a generalisation, whilst of course teenagers of any background have sex, if middle class schoolgirls accidentally become pregnant they tend to have abortions rather than become teen mothers.

I know plumbers can earn twice as much as a lot of middle class jobs I said that myself on some earlier comment.
Jayden is a shit name in general. But I know loads of working class kids called George and that's the princes name.
Radio 4? I think you're thinking of middle aged people not middle class 😂

You probably think only girls from poor broken homes become teen mum's so they have something to do to take away the heartbreak or some misconception like that.