Ever wonder how to differentiate class from one individual to another? The New York Times came out with an interactive chart to distinguish class for a person. The most influential characteristics that could used to describe a person's class are through their occupation, education, income and wealth.
Click here to check your socioeconomic status.
Playing around with the chart, the top 10 most prestigious job titles are:-
1. Physician/Surgeon
2. Lawyer
3. Database Administrator
4. Computer Systems Administrators
5. Astronomers and Physicists
6. Chemical Engineer
7. Chemist and material Scientist
8. Network and Data Communication Analyst
9. Computer Support Specialist
10. Dentist
As you can see, many pretigious job titles in IT, while chief executive from management is only upper middle. For my case, I am computer support specialist, I am heading to maybe engineering management and probably what I want to be is Chief Executive. You can see my occupation class is heading down and my income/wealth is heading up. So, it's clear to say occupation class mean nothing, the income/wealth mean something.
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June 4th, 2007 at 9:26 pm
The higher you go, the stressfull you will be.. I prefer the stay low and enjoy the life that God gives us..
December 14th, 2007 at 3:14 am
I Disagree with first comment. It is very much possible to be "Higher" than lower class or middle class and still enjoy "the life that God gives us" and still acknowledge God/Jesus for His Blessings and Preservation.
April 22nd, 2008 at 3:26 pm
I agree with the second comment. I also think that your job is only as stressful as you let it become, but yes there are some jobs that are just ridiculously stressful no matter what. So, just go with whatever kind of job you want to handle.