Korean Job Discussion Forums

[skinhead]

It makes all the difference to Koreans which social level you're from, yet we waegs pretend like it doesn't matter at all. Everybody knows that it does, so let it out - Are you from old money? nouveau riche? trailer trash? middle to nought?

What's your breeding?

I'm from middling reach on my mother's side and low-down smelling of fish on my father's. That makes me a salmon who could make it far enough upstream to spawn with concerted effort. Basically, I need to suck other people's arses in life to get ahead (), and I accept that position. I'm a low-class slob pretending to know the better half.


It's time the cafe members established once and for all the proper pecking order. Put yourself in your own place.

[PigeonFart]

aristocracy

[skinhead]

ooo. do you like hunt foxes and stuff?

[alphakennyone]

I was single-parent family, out-of-wedlock white trash before it became cool. My family goes against the tradition of the next generation doing better and improving on the one before - my grandparents were solid working-low middle class home-owners while my parents, aunts and uncles were all pretty much failures.

First generation college student (no one even in my extended family has gone to college), which people can be really condescendingly "nice" about.

[skinhead]

Do you feel inadequate in the presence of your social superiors? I can't imagine there'd be many teaching in Korea, but anyway...

[Illysook]

Both of my parents earned college degrees, I'm not sure about all of my grandparents. Only one grandmother is still living and she was a teacher. Occupations included teaching, civil service, and other white collar jobs, putting our family solidly in the middle class...but certain family "habits" left my sister and I (who have advanced degrees) feeling like ordinary white trash. My brothers probably feel the same, they just didn't waste as much money on their college degrees.

[Tundra_Creature]

Both parents are Uni educated, but I only lived with my mother who was a school teacher and now pedagogical counsellor.

On her side of the family we have a mix of people. On my grandpa's side, I don't think many of them finished school. He didn't make it past grade 3, but him and almost all his brothers ended up being in the Navy and later had civil servant jobs, so they were all pretty middle class. Prior to that, as I search through the family tree, they were farmers or had some sort of trade job.

Grandma's side had a lot of men who went to college and had a degree of some sort as well as serving in the military. Most of them seemed to have married famer's daughters and whatnot.

I still haven't done any real research into my Dad's side yet. Very difficult since I think he's basically the only one who emigrated her to Canada from the C.A.R.


Anyway, in short, I'm somewhere in middle class to middle upper class. Well, some of my family is. I'm studying and working while holding down a 3 1/2 apartment. I figure I'm pretty fine with my middle-student postion. I would like to go up moreso than down. You know, like get a 4 1/2 apartment!

[maryjanes]

British upper class and yes, I have hunted foxes and it was fun.

[Rex Jacobs]

U.S. government took care of me as a kid. We always waited for that welfare check in the mail. The 1st of the month was cash and food stamps. The middle of the month was just food stamps. When I was a kid I used to play "the market" with the neighborhood baseheads. Crackheads would give up a dollar food stamp for 70-80 cents cash. Good times. Hell the government even knocked off almost all of my college education debt....sometimes it pays to be white trash...just sometimes.

Its interesting that now I'm out here doing the same or even better work than people who's parents graduated high school and college...christ even lived on estates and such....kinda funny how things turn out huh...

[alphakennyone]

[alphakennyone]

[Rex Jacobs]

[Rex Jacobs]

[Steelrails]

Definately "The Gentry".

My grandfather on my father's side was instrumental in the post WWII development of the city. He was president of a regional bank and EVERYONE from that time in his city knows who he is.

My grandfather on my mother's side was an engineer for Bell and later GM. My grandmother was a pioneering women who did aerial photography of the GM facilities in Detroit. She actually got to pitch her proposal to Billy Durant himself.

My dad was president of an a small local accounting/payroll firm that did decent sales per year. My mom was a school teacher. Before the financial crisis I could have comfortably lived off the interest my family's wealth would have provided, though not at extravagence. Now, that is just not feasible.

My father owned several properties around town and in whatever club he joined he was always a part of the board.

So yes, landed gentry. Silver spoon and all that. No shame in it. Enjoyed all the benefits it provided. I hope I can live up to my predecessors and that my children can have the same benefits. Not looking likely at this point, too much of the Bohemain...

[Uncle Kevin]

OP,

Your user name is creative.