Middle Class To Dolescum. Is This The Future For Many?

[Stooo]

The children still have pony lessons, she's kept on the cleaner, but, financially AND emotionally, her gilded world is falling apart. One woman's story of how fragile our middle-class lives can be. . .

At supper one day, our eight-year-old daughter Emily announces that she has an idea. ‘It’s about a new job for Daddy,’ she says, ‘I saw it on the back of a bus. Daddy, you could train as a bus driver and earn £125 a day.’

My husband, Andy, winces. My eyes fill with tears. He’s got a History degree from Cambridge, a Masters degree in Business, and years of senior experience in strategic management. Bus driving wasn’t exactly the future he’d planned.

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It looks like some of the white collars in this country are going to have to get their hands dirty.

[Guest]

The children still have pony lessons, she's kept on the cleaner, but, financially AND emotionally, her gilded world is falling apart. One woman's story of how fragile our middle-class lives can be. . .

At supper one day, our eight-year-old daughter Emily announces that she has an idea. ‘It’s about a new job for Daddy,’ she says, ‘I saw it on the back of a bus. Daddy, you could train as a bus driver and earn £125 a day.’

My husband, Andy, winces. My eyes fill with tears. He’s got a History degree from Cambridge, a Masters degree in Business, and years of senior experience in strategic management. Bus driving wasn’t exactly the future he’d planned.

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It looks like some of the white collars in this country are going to have to get their hands dirty.

yeah they are so archetypical middle class, with a cleaner pony lessons

i'd agree they are upper middle

tell the bloke there are loads of decent jobs in the Guardian

[Northern]

I always think that too many people in this world live a materialistic lifestyle and focus way to much on "keeping up with the Jones's". It is unfortunate that many have raised their children in the same manner. So when bad times come upon them instead of survival mode kicking in and doing whatever is needed to provide for the family, pride instead kicks into place and they feel they are too good, or too qualified for menial jobs.
Isn't this what happened in the 50s, when stuck up their own arse people thought they were above jobs like railway porters, etc, which is why the government ended up advertising for workers abroad?

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I always think that too many people in this world live a materialistic lifestyle and focus way to much on "keeping up with the Jones's". It is unfortunate that many have raised their children in the same manner. So when bad times come upon them instead of survival mode kicking in and doing whatever is needed to provide for the family, pride instead kicks into place and they feel they are too good, or too qualified for menial jobs.
Isn't this what happened in the 50s, when stuck up their own arse people thought they were above jobs like railway porters, etc, which is why the government ended up advertising for workers abroad?

you won't see them fuckers shopping at primark

[Northern]

I always think that too many people in this world live a materialistic lifestyle and focus way to much on "keeping up with the Jones's". It is unfortunate that many have raised their children in the same manner. So when bad times come upon them instead of survival mode kicking in and doing whatever is needed to provide for the family, pride instead kicks into place and they feel they are too good, or too qualified for menial jobs.
Isn't this what happened in the 50s, when stuck up their own arse people thought they were above jobs like railway porters, etc, which is why the government ended up advertising for workers abroad?

you won't see them fuckers shopping at primark

So

[Stooo]

I always think that too many people in this world live a materialistic lifestyle and focus way to much on "keeping up with the Jones's". It is unfortunate that many have raised their children in the same manner. So when bad times come upon them instead of survival mode kicking in and doing whatever is needed to provide for the family, pride instead kicks into place and they feel they are too good, or too qualified for menial jobs.
Isn't this what happened in the 50s, when stuck up their own arse people thought they were above jobs like railway porters, etc, which is why the government ended up advertising for workers abroad?

you won't see them fuckers shopping at primark

You will once the savings run out. I think they pay eight quid an hour for bus drivers around here.

[syntactic ambiguity]

I always think that too many people in this world live a materialistic lifestyle and focus way to much on "keeping up with the Jones's". It is unfortunate that many have raised their children in the same manner. So when bad times come upon them instead of survival mode kicking in and doing whatever is needed to provide for the family, pride instead kicks into place and they feel they are too good, or too qualified for menial jobs.
Isn't this what happened in the 50s, when stuck up their own arse people thought they were above jobs like railway porters, etc, which is why the government ended up advertising for workers abroad?





you won't see them fuckers shopping at primark

So

just an observation

[Northern]

[Snuffleupagus]

He's been unemployed for years (well, apart from the odd job here and there), and they still employ a cleaner? WTF?

[Guest]

But at least they're employing someone else so that's fair enough. If they sacked the cleaner that's less income for her and a knock-on effect on someone else, isn't it

She is working and he is working when he can find it. He's not claiming benefits so really, whatever changes they're making to their lifestyle are not affecting anyone else anyway, so why all the criticism?

[Big Fat Frosty]

my heart bleeds 4 them

is there a website were we can donate to them

[Text]

my heart bleeds 4 them

is there a website were we can donate to them

Yup, I'll organise a whip-round. All these toffs down to their last million or so, I feel their pain.