Reply #155: I have always laughed at the idea that most people have of their status.

[Curmudgeoness]

The $8.00 an hour receptionist at a business, sitting at a desk all day, considers herself "middle class". The $300,000 executive at the office down the hall from her considers herself "middle class". Now it is obvious that these two are not in the same class.

I read a study years ago that showed most people will classify themselves as "middle class" as long as they have a regular full-time job. No one seems to want to be classified as lower class, and everyone thinks that the upper class consists only of uber wealthy.

I have always been working class, and I am not ashamed of that.