my mum was a teenage runaway who got pregnant at 17 and my dad worked in a garage. the most well paid job my dad ever had was running a store that sold car paint. otherwise him and my mum have just done different random physical jobs over the years. currently care worker and handy man
Prof PB Ottom
It's quite a fun exercise to try to work out what the most working class and most middle class version of the story of your own social background you could tell. (I could tell wildly different stories about my own social class by picking the biographies of two grandparents - one from each parent.)
