What is your class status?

[Meneldil]

My dad is teacher, my mum is nurse. Both are coming from upper middle class, though my mother would now be considered lower middle-class on a purely money-making basis.

Personally, I think this whole topic is useless as long as nobody defines what is a class. Are we using Marx's classification system? The oversimplistic anglo-saxon three classes one? Is class only defined by income? Are education and family to be taken into account as well?
I find Marx's theory to be at least as valuable as the lower/middle/upper class system. The french classification also has its flaws, as it only takes job into account. I'd be defined as a student. Is a student part of the lower/middle/upper class? Does he belong to the petty bourgeoisie? Obviously it depends on his education and social background, and those are apparently not even considered in the lower/middle/upper class idea.

In short, I don't even know what class I do belong to. I don't make any money most of the time (I only work during summer), my education level is - I'd say - higher than it is for most of the population. My familly has both upper class and working class roots. And there I am.