No real post until this evening. (Dave, I promise I’ll get to the monkey business at Dartmouth.) I have a full day of parenting, so no time to construct a proper post. How I envy all of you with jobs that pay you money and allow you to sit on your asses reading blogs all day. It’s truly a bizarro world.
Anyhow, check out this chart on class from the New York Times (via Bitch PhD). You can assess your social status by plugging in your career, education, and money.
I did quite well on the education, so-so on the money, but I was surprised that they didn’t rate college professors higher. Psychologists were rated higher than professors. Having gone to high school with a number of children of shrinks, they don’t rate too high in my book.
And dentists? They are number 3? Edged out by Ira Needleman.
Then there all those high tech workers, like database engineers, who are in more demand at cocktail parties than eggheads. Because they are great conversationalists.
Even with the lower stock of academics, it is still better than plugging in my primary job of parent. That wasn’t even an option.
Apt. 11d 
Ah, what’s a stupid flash quiz going to know? You’ll always have class in my book. 🙂
But yeah, it’s pretty cool to be paid to sit on yer butt.
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I was also annoyed that I couldn’t plug in parent. But how would they rate that socioeconomically? We just derive socioeconomic status from our mates or from what we did previously
The rankings of professions are clearly screwed up. My husband is a business executive but that wasn’t a choice. I figured I could consider him CEO of his 250-person unit, so I chose that. CEO only ranks as upper-middle class, which I find really weird. And it ranks below the engineers that would work for him. Only in backwards-land would their positions be considered of higher prestige than his.
Not that any of this matters to me…
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You know, I always thought dentists had an unusually high rate of suicide. Turns out not to be true, though. Hmm.
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Fling gets a smooch.
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Were we supposed to plug in our personal income or our household income?
Because obviously, for those of us with “half a job” and a high earning spouse, it makes a big difference.
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I assumed they meant family income. Without including that info , SAHM or half working mothers would be rock bottom status-wise. Scary.
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Thanks for linking to the NY Times class stuff. Lots of interesting reading there. I tried to discover my own social class, but couldn’t find the category for stay at home mom!! Aggravating!
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