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.