I frequently work 80 hour weeks, and I frequently work 30 days in a row. I am far away from home most of the time. I have skills I must continuously update, and I have worked long and hard to be the best, and there is no way I can be replaced by hiring some monkey off the street. Not only do I have the skills, but I have 25 years of in depth knowledge about all of our processes, and every one of our plants world wide. There is no way in this world that anybody will ever consider me part of the “working” class. Isn’t that ironic?
That would depend upon your definition of "Working Class," which I have always found suspect as a concept.