Reply #43: I saw more examples as I got older [View All]

[Nikia]

When my mother married her second husband, who had an upper level managment job at a national company, we moved to the edge of town to his house in a subdivision. The school district that the house was in was a rural district with students from a variety of backgrounds, more so than in my city elementary school. There were students who lived in some of the most expensive houses in the county. There were students who lived in trailer parks. There were students who lived on farms. There was everything in between. The first girl that befriended me lived in a trailer park. I still had not thought too much about class then. I soon learned that to be friends with the richer students who I lived near, although several went to private school instead, that I had to choose between them and my trailer park friends.
When I went away to college, there were some students that didn't need to worry about getting a job after college. It was all arranged. They just had to get a degree. They were pretty tolerant of poorer students but not those adult dining hall workers and cleaning staff, but they ruthlessly bad mouthed just for being poor.
When I applied to jobs, I found that there were jobs for certain types of people. I also found out that if you took certain jobs at certain companies that you would never get promoted. Certain people were hourly employees. Certain people were salaried employees. Once an hourly employee, always an hourly employee.
These are just some examples from my class experience.