Is ‘shunter for British Rail’ a working class job?

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Been dating a man for 7 months. He was born 1970 just FYI. His parents were both born in 1927 just for context and both long gone from this world.

I know his mum worked in a care home - but I really don’t know her level of seniority- could’ve bern a manager - could’ve had a more routine job - I haven’t asked.

Anyway - I know he was close to his Dad and seemed to be a happy family but had no clue what his Dad did for a living so asked him over the weekend and he said

‘Shunter for British Rail.

AIBU to ask if you’d class it as a working class job?

Dunno really just am!

Lots of women had children in their early 40s - no contraception. My family tree is filled with kids born to mums this age.

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Why do you even care? The British class system is so ridiculous to those of us outside of it - no-one here would ask such a stupid question.

Hmm, a strange way to lever in the re-nationalisation plans or do you never feel "interested" enough to Google the news?

www.gov.uk/government/news/first-train-services-to-return-to-public-ownership-revealed

Yeah I suppose

i had a shit upbringing and I’m desperate trying to overcome it and not be like my parents

Ah thanks I didn’t realise this

Sorry OP but British Rail ended in 1997 when it was nationalised to become National Rail.
It is being reverted gradually to Great British Railways, perhaps that's what you mean.

Yes my mums family had a 20+ age difference between siblings I don't think it was unusual for the last baby to born to a women in her 40s,

My dad was born in 1957 to his 43 year old mum!

A lot of them were teenage daughters' kids....

That doesn’t make it applicable to ‘working class jobs’, just your DH’s specific job. Lots of them have no such thing.

It’s like saying ‘working class jobs have uniforms’ because yours does. No. Some do, some do not.

My great gran was having kids uo to late 40s so understandably I don’t think 43 is old to have a baby

Hmm. It wasn't unusual for unmarried daughters to have their babies raised by their mothers... My Dad has a big age gap between his oldest and youngest siblings too, with the last baby being born when his mother was 47...

My great gran had

5 babies over 40 - last at 47! 💪🙌

You are really just interested in whether your new partner’s dead parents were middle of working class and what they earned? To the extent that you’re googling stuff and starting threads about it? Do you think that’s rational behaviour?

How do you think he’d feel about this? How would you feel if he were doing it to/about your parents?

Baffling

I think you’re confusing class with wage though? We all known plumbers, builders, train drivers etc are very well paid and that’s surely ‘working class’ ? Who cares?

Also why did you look online to find out how much your boyfriend’s dead dad made 50 years ago? 😂

It isn't that well paid, less then £40000

You cared enough to start a thread specifically asking what “class” of job it was though?

If you care about class then surely you understand that it's not just about money.

Read some Nancy Mitford? (Or some Jilly Cooper)

Erm … I was on £23k in 2018 - to me it’s well paid !!!!

I know both of my in laws had low paid jobs. I admire my husband all the more for studying to make sure he was better paid and better educated.

Pay and class of job are not inherently related. I'm 45, an electrician who specialises in industrial control systems and am self employed, earn over £100k - but it's still a working class job, I'm still blue collar.

However I come from an upper class family and went to public school, but I prefer massively the type of people I work with, mix with and have married into.

Many working class jobs are fairly well paid!

especially those in skilled trades and or employed by the government.

but why does it matter?