[Closed] What class are you?

I'm the same. I'm wondering already if everybody will be....

Technical middle class here too.

Glad not to b classified as scumbag to be honest!

Guess most on here will be technical middle.

Bahaa Established Middle Class! Bow down you plebs!

I'm not btw, I'm very working class and don't earn a great amount!

Established middle class

This is the most gregarious and the second wealthiest of all the class groups. According to the Great British Class Survey results, lots of people in this group:

Enjoy a diverse range of cultural activities
Went to university
Are comfortably off, secure and established

Mostly it seems because I know a lot of people

Technical middle class here as well. I can see only a certain demographic of people on STW are on the forum at 7am.

New Affluent Class apparently - christ knows how i can be affluent on my wages! Something to do with having friends across the spectrum and owning my own home i think.

Elite apparently

Emergent Service Worker - Well, that's a great start to the day.

EDIT - interesting that it takes nothing from level of education.

Do you have to ask?

Actually I would be "Elite" if I hadnt already retired ...

Since when did working too hard make you an "elite"?

New affluent workers

This class group is sociable, has lots of cultural interests and is in the middle of all the class groups in terms of wealth. According to the Great British Class Survey results, lots of people in this group:

Are young
Come from a working class background
Own their own home

But I bet I can change it when I go through the people I know socially a bit more.

Precariat... 😯

On the up side I do get to ride a bike 5 days a week... 😀

emergent service class here... wonder if that'll change when I move into my bought property...

What class am I in? 3B

Rachel

Since when did working too hard make you an "elite"?

When you think earning lots means you work hard.

Technical middle class here too.

Established middle class.

not a massive surprise.

yep goes straight to established Middle class as soon as I mention buying a house. I live on a council estate.

Elite er.... Wasn't expecting that. Now, I definitely know people who I'd expect to appear there but they are A LOT richer and better off than me.

+1 Daffy

Gonna go cry into my gruel.

When you think earning lots means you work hard.

I was referring to an increase in your income moving you from Established Middle Class to Elite according to that BBC site. Since I get paid, like many, by the hour and so working for more time = making more money, [i]ergo[/i], working harder would make me an "Elite". Unless you want to be contrary about working longer hours is not in itself working harder.

Now, using latin in a forum post on the other hand....

We're both Established Middle Class too. Not bad for a Son of a Pipefitter Welder and a Daughter of a joiner.

I know my place

What class are you?

Surely, that should be "Which class are you?" 😉

I'm an "Emergent service worker", which i think means scum. I earn good money, but i don't own a house or have any friends...

Unless you want to be contrary about working longer hours is not in itself working harder.

Well yes there's that but also working more hours doesn't mean necessarily working harder. I'll go through and adjust the wage part based on what I worked last year, I did a lot of extra hours to pay for a holiday it boosted my wage but I volunteered for it.

Ok done it with wage adjustment based on last year and I'm know Established Middle Class. Shows what a dodgy test it but don't suppose it's mean to be very accurate.

Established middle apparently.
Knowing lots of people, owning a home seem to have swung it.

whether you volunteered for it or not is immaterial.

Unless you think that working the extra hours was a pleasure and part of your leisure time I'd suggest you were "working harder" at least in the common acceptance of the phrase.

If your income on a certain number of hours a week puts you in Established Middle Class, but working an additional 20 hours a week puts you in Elite, then I dont think Im stretching the dictionary by suggesting that "working harder moves you into Elite" according to that site.

Unless you insist on continuing to be contrary for effect.

EDIT:

Ok done it with wake adjustment based on last year and I'm know Established Middle Class. Shows what a dodgy test it but don't suppose it's mean to be very accurate.

Cross posts. Points agreed then.

The most interesting factor was who you knew, by missing out some friends I could max out certain sectors - including them reduced my score.

New affluent worker. Which is ironic, because I'm from a distinctly middle class upbringing. Meh.

I am a first class.. highest grade.. double zero

Precariat - with the social and cultural status of all seven

Precariat

Unless you think that working the extra hours was a pleasure and part of your leisure time I'd suggest you were "working harder" at least in the common acceptance of the phrase.

Almost agreed. My point is the money you earn and hours you work doesn't mean you work hard, doing a few extras hours a week when you have a cushy well paid job where compared to someone who is on minimum wage and works none stop isn't going to be too bad. The person working none stop may be tired to work extra to try and boost their wage.

My point is that a wage isn't really that much to do with how hard you work, I'd say it's one of the less contributing factors in reality.

Anyway I'll leave the thread for what it's meant to be, a bit of fun.

Established middle class.

FOOLS
Youve been sucked in to believe you are no longer working class.
Stop working and see what happens.

Result: the class group you most closely match is:
Technical middle class

This is a small, distinctive and prosperous new class group. According to the Great British Class Survey results, lots of people in this group:

Mix socially with people similar to themselves
Work in research, science and technical fields
Enjoy emerging culture such as going to the gym and using social media

Tech middle here too, essentially just a nicer way of saying a sub group of the working classes.

Established Middle Class! I don't think so.

I'm not sure how it works that out but it's very far from the truth.

Basically since I earn a reasonable amount, ride a bike and use t'internet, it seems I'm locked into being Technical Middle Class on that crude measure.

Always have been and always will be, bottom of the class, of which i'm not sure. 😆

So how do you class class these days?

I work hard in a good job and live in Surrey, own a 2.6 bed end of terrace thats worth £310K !!! yet if i were to sell up and move back to yorkshire where I grew up i'd have a 4 bed detached house with a nice plot of land.... does that make me midlle class or working class?

Edit: just realised I come from Yorkshire so that automatically makes me upper class 😆

Elite apparently - load of pi$h.

Elite, interesting, or not.

Must have been the jazz.

Came out as Technical Middle Class....which is bollocks.

You're working class or you're not.

....ask yourself if you have to get up in the morning?....if the answer is yes then you work for a living regardless of how wealthy you are.

....if however you can give up work and not descend into poverty then you may class yourself as something else.

Traditional working class for me.

Quite happy with that at least they didn't class me as a pauper 😀

Established Middle Class

Don't know how, must be the contacts!

Snugly and smugly established middle class.

On an individual level this sort of thing is an inaccurate and largely irrelevant load of pish.

New Effluent Worker - always suspected my life was shit!

Established middle class

Mind you given the weekend's front garden activities, it would sound about right!

Elite: This is the most privileged class in Great Britain who have high levels of all three capitals. Their high amount of economic capital sets them apart from everyone else.

But then, I already knew that.

(Don't think less of me. I can't seem to get smilies on my iPad.)

Established middle class, feeling more like precarious middlers tbh.

I reckon that membership of nearly any sports club with a good social scene would bump you up the scale, as it probably did in our case.

ask yourself if you have to get up in the morning?....if the answer is yes then you work for a living regardless of how wealthy you are.

Or you're unemployed. 😀

My point is the money you earn and hours you work doesn't mean you work hard, doing a few extras hours a week when you have a cushy well paid job where compared to someone who is on minimum wage and works none stop isn't going to be too bad.

I know what you were desperately trying to say Drac. You were a just bit quick in with the predictable [i]undeserving wealthy/deserving poor[/i] line before you had read properly what had been written.

Established middle class. Seems to rely a lot on how much I earn and how many people I know. Which makes absolutely no sense at all.

How much you earn is about how much you earn, it's not where you sit in a social structure.

Who you know depends on how friendly you are.

Neither of these things defines your class which is more about a state of mind and attitude.

Technical Middle here too. Hangin wiv the cool kids, innit?

Perfectly happy to stay here since moving further up the social ladder apparently involves making friends with CEOs, visiting stately homes, and listening to jazz. #WorstNightmare

Elite, they are wrong.

Elite! whippeeeeee. Went from Sport Class to Expert but never made it to elite. Does that mean I can win xc races by just turning up?

Apparently I went to public school and university, can't remember any of that.

I'd call myself/us the privileged, very pleased to be where we are knowing who we do and be able ride, walk and run (that was nearly not the case).

New affluent worker. Which is ironic, because I'm from a distinctly middle class upbringing. Meh.

This.

Interesting how many people here are in denial about how middle-class or even 'elite' they are, and are keen to see themselves as more working class.

Emergent service workers

Apparently?

People only ever want to be working class or upper class, surely.
I'll admit to being middle class. White collar worker, good education, reasonable wage, Heinz baked beans. I eat fruit that doesn't have chocolate around it.

I'd like to be seen as working class but only because I'm a northerner.

As I said previously, it's about attitude more than anything else. When you go to the doctor and don't get what you want what do you do?

Working class people will bitch about the educated people putting them down, my wife is working class because she does this and inherently distrusts them. Because I'm middle class I'll debate with them and demand in a clear and concise manner that I am given what I want.

Neither of these things defines your class which is more about a state of mind and attitude.

This. Money has very little to do with it. I knew a scrap metal dealer who was a 'gorger' (a Traveller who lived in a house) he delivered our washing machine in the boot of his roller, he went to the races and the opera. common as muck, working class but loaded.

Elite here, and nothing to do with income either.

But irrelevent of our income over the last 20 years I'd say we are Middle Class, purely due to attitude, the way we live and what we enjoy.

'Elite'. 😯

That 'test' is a load of bollocks. Why does anyone need to know what class they are, other than to feel superior/inferior to others?

I'd like to be seen as working class but only because I'm a northerner.

Why? Because of the perceived 'glamour' associated with that notion, brought about through various mythical constructs created by those with a vested interest in categorising people within a society? Why allow yourself to be put in a box?

Emergent Service Worker or Precariat if I answer some questions slightly differently.

Which is a load of bollocks. I'm not quite sure what they're trying to do with these classifications, but if they want categories which are actually useful they need to ask more sensible questions...

"grum - Member
Interesting how many people here are in denial about how middle-class or even 'elite' they are, and are keen to see themselves as more working class."

Not me matey I'm ecstatic to be elite. Know what you mean though. The survey was a bit rubbish and not nuanced enough.

What a load of shit! This is even less acurate than the BMI scale!

Do we really need MORE classes?

Elite apparently - by virtue of having paid a lot into my pension which for some reason they think is 'savings'

If i discounted that, and counted only stuff i really count as savings - technical middle class, like the rest of us.

I think they're trying to make "class" a bit more like the marketeers classifications - DINKs, ABC1, whatever.

Elite, whatever that is....

[i]What class are you?[/i]

I am a walking, talking, lesson in Stupids. Qualified and everything.

😀

[EDIT]
[i]Do we really need MORE classes[/i]
Depends, what results did you get in your exams ?

I am another émergent service worker. Which seems to mean you are young (I am not), live in a former industrial city (I don't) are financially insecure (yep) and like rock music and sport (yep)

i am ashamed..........middle class.

[i]like rock music[/i]

Ah, you lost me there.

"theotherjonv - Member
Elite apparently - by virtue of having paid a lot into my pension which for some reason they think is 'savings'
If i discounted that, and counted only stuff i really count as savings - technical middle class, like the rest of us."

You have paid into a pension, that makes you Elite like it or not. Your posh so get you sneering lessons done. haw haw haw.

Affluent worker. I rarely work and I'm not particularly affluent but I did go to the theatre last October so....

Precariat, suits me fine

[i]I did go to the theatre last October[/i]

That makes you next inline to the throne, round my way.

Elite apparently. But on the descriptions I identify more with the middle class groups. Though that may be the class denial thing people are talking about.

And for the lad who thinks £300k gets a four bed house with land in Yorkshire - maybe for a fixer-upper, not for an actual habitable house within commuting distance of any of the cities/large towns.

[i][b]Precariat[/b], suits me fine [/i]

You just made that word up.

It's only a bit of fun!

So two candidates for MR Polly Toynbee identified already! 😉

Thx, I am glad that we agree about, why put yourself in a box? There seems to be an obsession about it (especially here). On a forum yesterday, one bloke was asking another (several times) to identify which professional, background, inside trouser leg box he was in!!! Strange, isn't it? 😉

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