Creating Middle Class jobs and What does it mean to be Middle class

what a texas city did to create higher paying jobs for the less educated, but is it really middle class jobs?http://finance.yahoo.com/news/recipe-for-middle-class-jobs.html

what does it mean to be middle class. this question was asked to a bunch of facebook users and the responses are pretty interesting. are they accurate? its quite evident in some responses they dont quite know the differences in class or what even makes up class.
http://shine.yahoo.com/work-money/does-mean-middle-class-135900120.html

modern times

this is a piece from Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times. I think its a great example of how a working class person is looked at as far as skill, but it also shows the struggles of the actual worker. It is also pretty funny... ENJOY FOLKS


http://youtu.be/CReDRHDYhk8

Working as hard as the day is long

I like the Mike Rose book a lot. It was coming from a point of view that many of the academics tend to over look. I bet if I gave my mom or dad that book they could pin point some of the main ideas the piece was presenting. With that, this class has actually made me feel pretty bad. I feel like I am stuck in a class that isnt bad, but not necessarly what I am looking for out of life. Thanks media and thank you all mighty American dream. I don't know what more I can do as a person to become something more than what I am bound to be. I feel no matter what amount of education level I have I need to work and work hard and physical sometimes to get satisfaction from what I am doing. Is everyone like this? I feel like I lose myself in work and academics and when this is all said and done I have no idea where I will be. I think of myself as cultured and well traveled, I know people in high places, but I still have working class values. Mike Rose shows how many of these working class people are happy and content, but we've also read many stories of people lost and stuck in this limbo of class belonging. Just adds a whole different element to the individual. "working as hard as the day is long, a working man works when he gets home" dmb