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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What people do, and not necessarily the money they make.

Upper middle class = people who seek actualization from their careers, want jobs that represent them as people and give them a purpose in life.  This includes professors, doctors, scientists, lawyers, people working at nonprofits etc.  They often, probably a majority, have graduate degrees.

The working class and most of the middle class just want to maximize the earnings/work formula.

Nurses I'd say are borderline working class/middle class.  They almost always come from working class backgrounds and never come upper middle class ones.  Their degrees are strictly vocational.  It's work that's seen as unglamorous that you do strictly for the money.  And you can make a high five figure salary - that's good in flyover country and nurses here tend to live in the no-nonsense, far-flung suburban/exurban neighborhoods with pretty cheap housing.  They're more likely to marry cops, EMTs or firefighters than they are to marry doctors.

Teachers are a slightly higher class I'd say, pretty much middle-middle class.  It doesn't attract the top college graduates, because they want upper middle class professions. [b] Their degrees are vocational.[/b]  They're unionized (elite liberals are pro-union but union jobs are beneath them).  They're way too many of them for it to be an elite.  The work is being proletarianized and micromanaged (university professors would never except this), at least outside certain "cache" school districts and freethinking private schools.  However there are a few upper middle class do-gooders who go into teaching, usually at certain "cache" schools.  And these teachers tend to go to have graduated from elite universities with a less vocational focus.[/quote]

I know several teachers who graduated from Ivy league schools or top SLACs with majors other than education.[/quote]

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