I'm definitely working class, and I still believe in those values. I know that losing everything would not be an unfamiliar feeling. Meaning, if you don't have it anymore, you didn't have it to begin with.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My background is that I came from a middle class family, and I think those values stay where ever you go.
Everything that has happened to me is of value to me. As painful as certain things are, and have been, and were, there's a use for those things in my life and in my work.
I still consider myself working class. I know my circumstances have changed dramatically since I was growing up back in Birkenhead.
If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies.
I worked my way through the education system and was treated as though I had value.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
I stopped living according to my core values. I knew what I was doing was wrong but thought only about myself and thought I could get away with whatever I wanted to.
When I retired from active duty, I still felt that I owed something to my community. That's why I pursued education... I still miss the classroom and recall those days fondly.
I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.
Basically as a working class boy I understand when there's not enough money to put food on the table and not knowing where the next dollar comes in from. When you've been in that environment as a child, you never lose it.