In this day and age, I'm not really sure what class I am anymore*, because computer programmers don't really fit in! Professional of some sort I guess would probably be closest, although like most in my field, I don't have (or need) any industry-regulated qualifications (just a couple of Oxford degrees).
*What I was when I was growing up was middle middle class. Pretty much by definition, since both my parents were teachers and that's about as middle as you can get.
Wondered how long it would take for you to ask this ;)
Looked up the defs before answering...as I now see, same answer as you gave yourself.
However, I think it is all a load of *******, for lots of reasons that I am too tired to talk about, but two that come to mind are that the socio-economic scale naturally puts younger people at the beginning of their careers in a lower banding (despite the fact that this takes no account of the 'socio-' bit), and that none of the scales I just looked at properly take account of people (often women but not necessarily) who do not fit into the traditional pattern of career progression due to other non-paying or non-career-oriented responsibilities/lifestyle choices.
Regardless of you being upper middle class and A-banded by definition, I stand by the original comment I made at the time too, (which wasn't *the* original comment).
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Date: 2006-09-18 10:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-18 01:11 pm (UTC)*What I was when I was growing up was middle middle class. Pretty much by definition, since both my parents were teachers and that's about as middle as you can get.
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Date: 2006-09-18 08:28 pm (UTC)Looked up the defs before answering...as I now see, same answer as you gave yourself.
However, I think it is all a load of *******, for lots of reasons that I am too tired to talk about, but two that come to mind are that the socio-economic scale naturally puts younger people at the beginning of their careers in a lower banding (despite the fact that this takes no account of the 'socio-' bit), and that none of the scales I just looked at properly take account of people (often women but not necessarily) who do not fit into the traditional pattern of career progression due to other non-paying or non-career-oriented responsibilities/lifestyle choices.
Regardless of you being upper middle class and A-banded by definition, I stand by the original comment I made at the time too, (which wasn't *the* original comment).
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Date: 2006-09-18 08:50 pm (UTC)You'll have to remind me (on or off list).