What Class Do You Consider Yourself In?

[THUNDER HANDS]

Are you reasonably well-off? Do you have some modest savings? Do you live paycheck to paycheck?

What class would you consider yourself in?

[alexwcovington]

1. As this is the internet

It's doubtful you will find too many people on the very hardest end of the stick... Stupid digital divide.

[emad]

2. "Economy" or 'Business' (for long-haul)

?

[7th_Sephiroth]

7. i'm in the toilet right now

but i'm poised to get a VERRY high paying job

[Booberdawg]

3. Go on a vacation Magic Rat! Enough with the fucking polls!

I hope the elites don't come out in force for this one because it would fucking piss me off if they won this poll :eyes:

[Brucey]

4. Hey sociologists:

What are the official definitions of the classes?

[THUNDER HANDS]

5. well, i believe the official poverty line

Is about $12,000 a year. I could be wrong on that though.

[Nikia]

6. Diverse?

Class is about more things than your paycheck and how much you have left over. My husband chatted with a guy who made over $150,000/ year and was living paycheck to paycheck. That happens when you live beyind your means. It would be nice to have an honest discussion about this without it turning into class warfare.
I'd classify myself as diverse because I've had a diverse upbringing with diverse family members. I am college educated working in a semi management position in a factory. I make around $30,000/year and am married to a college educated son of lawyer who does sales and service for a small business. I was born to young parents who tried to attend college while working. My mothers parents were an agriculture agent and a nursing assistant. My fathers parents were a police officer and a clerical worker. My great grandparents owned half of the rental properties in the large town that they lived in. My parents divorced and my mother graduated from college. My father didn't at the time and worked in manufacturing his whole career while playing in a rock band on the side. He graduated from college later in life. They were both very poor during my early childhood. My mother worked for non profits and governmental agencies and eventually married a very abusive manager who was fairly well off. We lived in a big house and they belonged to a country club. It was hell for my sister and I and we still wore worn out clothes from K Mart while their daughter got brand new clothes as a toddler from better department stores. In high school, I moved in with my father who had been laid off from a fairly good factory job because I could not stand living with my evil step father anymore even though my mother threatened to disown me. His band split up and he was stuck working for $7/hour. His wife was a teacher's aide. I ended up getting reduced lunches. I did well in school and went to a nice liberal art college. I experienced many different types of people and picked up things off of all of them. I think that people often do things that they do not like or that are not good for them in order to try to fit in with their appropriate class. They also limit themselves in what they do and who they get to know. How do we break down these walls? By the way, what class am I? I don't really feel comfortable with any of the class norms and can come off snobbish to lower class people and low class to upper class people.

[geniph]

8. I'd consider myself middle class now, but

was definitely born into dire poverty. I grew up in the housing projects - closest thing to a ghetto Seattle has - and never knew the meaning of security until a few years ago.

About half my siblings have worked their way into the middle class, and the other half is still living in travel trailers and tarpaper shacks.

What's funny is that you don't leave your original class behind. Both my husband and I grew up really poor (he even worse than I, as his father was an itinerant preacher who never had a congregation or church of his own), and both of us married the first time to suburban types who'd grown up middle class. Both of us had too much culture clash with our original spouses. The mindset of people who understand poverty is very different from that of people who think privation is not being able to buy a new car.

[commander bunnypants]

9. But Istill aint got no money

DDQM- I am in enough hack to last 3 lifetimes.

DDQM

[Guaranteed]

10. I make 7 bucks an hour.

Don't be haters, though!

[sleipnir]

11. Try this one...overpaid for an underworked job....

Though, I only made (now on unemployment) about $23,000 a year, but I really didn't do shit, which is why they cut out my job, not my fault though, the company was overstaffed

[amazona]

12. i'm poor but not sure how to vote

I am not "flat broke" because I never spend any money but as I often whine...my income is in the high four figures, so I am poor even if the feds won't recognize me as such.

[ChoralScholar]

13. Is there anyway to know

who voted "very wealthy" so I can know who to borrow money from?

J/K

Lower middle class here.. for a little while longer anyway.

[KCDem]

14. income good, savings poor.

Both DH and I were grad school junkies. 2-almost-Ph.Ds and an MBA later, we finally have a job (I'm at home with kids, but that's a job in itself for now). Income is better than I feel we deserve, but, at the same time, we struggle. We have NO savings since we spent so long in school. Laugh if you must, but until I was 27, I thought IRA only meant Irish Republican Army. No idea about finances at all!