What jobs do private school kids end up doing?

For people who have had experience with private school educated students, what kind of jobs do they end up doing? What jobs are regarded as being 'elite'?

Obviously being wealthy and going to private school give connections or connections from their parents to help you to get a good job. I only know a few private school students. Once of them has become a premiership rugby player, another is currently a paralegal. I think the jobs these kids end up doing is also quite situational (how much their parents push them, if they're relying on daddy's inheritance, if they can afford to pursue an unconventional career because of the safety net of their family wealth).

But what do the bog standard private school kids who have parents on a decent salary (not HUGE wealth and not that many connections) end up doing? Doctors, lawyers? I feel like there isn't that much money in those types of jobs anymore to be honest... Unless you work in those sectors until you're like 50.

Also, do some of them flunk and end up doing crap paying jobs? It's hard for me to imagine a child who was born into privilege end up having a poorer lifestyle than their parents... Does wealth keep accumulating? or do a lot of students don't have any ambition because they already know they're rich and end up just getting crap salary jobs? Hope this makes sense.

It depends on the individuals, their abilities and ambitions.
Often also their family traditions in relation to parenting styles, attitudes towards funding descendants education & living costs and amount of networking efforts to assist their children in obtaining secure or well paid employment.

My best friend works as a model.
Some friends who attended the same private schools have started their own businesses or joined their family firms.
While other friends work for: advertising & pr agencies, art galleries, bookshops, charities, the CoE, the foreign office, estate agencies, hedge funds, investment banks, legal firms, the nhs, photography studios, political parties, recruitment consultancies, wedding planners and vet practices.

Probably similar to the kinds of things university graduates go into.

Both my older siblings went to private school, one teaches Brazilian jiu jitsu, the other teaches maths. However I wouldn't describe my family as wealthy.

Yes, although I think a lot of private school students do have access opportunities and connections that state school graduates don't? Would your brothers send their children (if they have or will have any) to private school?

i currently go to one of the most expensive private schools in london and can tell you that a lot of them will end up as/already are crack dealers 👍

For people who have had experience with private school educated students, what kind of jobs do they end up doing? What jobs are regarded as being 'elite'?

Obviously being wealthy and going to private school give connections or connections from their parents to help you to get a good job. I only know a few private school students. Once of them has become a premiership rugby player, another is currently a paralegal. I think the jobs these kids end up doing is also quite situational (how much their parents push them, if they're relying on daddy's inheritance, if they can afford to pursue an unconventional career because of the safety net of their family wealth).

But what do the bog standard private school kids who have parents on a decent salary (not HUGE wealth and not that many connections) end up doing? Doctors, lawyers? I feel like there isn't that much money in those types of jobs anymore to be honest... Unless you work in those sectors until you're like 50.

Also, do some of them flunk and end up doing crap paying jobs? It's hard for me to imagine a child who was born into privilege end up having a poorer lifestyle than their parents... Does wealth keep accumulating? or do a lot of students don't have any ambition because they already know they're rich and end up just getting crap salary jobs? Hope this makes sense.

I've seen a lot of private school students go into media, modelling, sports etc... things that many poorer students wouldn't have the funds to pursue. But for those working in bookshops and charities, when they become parents would they not be able to afford to send their own children to private school? I just find it interesting if they don't have the ambition to have a high salary and possibly send their own children to private school when they did and got all the opportunities private school provides...

For people who have had experience with private school educated students, what kind of jobs do they end up doing? What jobs are regarded as being 'elite'?

Obviously being wealthy and going to private school give connections or connections from their parents to help you to get a good job. I only know a few private school students. Once of them has become a premiership rugby player, another is currently a paralegal. I think the jobs these kids end up doing is also quite situational (how much their parents push them, if they're relying on daddy's inheritance, if they can afford to pursue an unconventional career because of the safety net of their family wealth).

But what do the bog standard private school kids who have parents on a decent salary (not HUGE wealth and not that many connections) end up doing? Doctors, lawyers? I feel like there isn't that much money in those types of jobs anymore to be honest... Unless you work in those sectors until you're like 50.

Also, do some of them flunk and end up doing crap paying jobs? It's hard for me to imagine a child who was born into privilege end up having a poorer lifestyle than their parents... Does wealth keep accumulating? or do a lot of students don't have any ambition because they already know they're rich and end up just getting crap salary jobs? Hope this makes sense.

Toilet cleaner.

Seriously though, I know some rich kids who end up as secretaries or personal assistants because they don’t need a high paying job and didn’t bother to apply themselves in school, even with all that extra private tuition. I always think what a waste (of an opportunity) that is when a poorer, more driven student could’ve achieved so much more.

I guess that's what grammar schools are for, right?

I went to a grammar school but it was like 800k in debt lol. I did try and make the most out of it though

Wait wdum lol grammar schools are free

For people who have had experience with private school educated students, what kind of jobs do they end up doing? What jobs are regarded as being 'elite'?

Obviously being wealthy and going to private school give connections or connections from their parents to help you to get a good job. I only know a few private school students. Once of them has become a premiership rugby player, another is currently a paralegal. I think the jobs these kids end up doing is also quite situational (how much their parents push them, if they're relying on daddy's inheritance, if they can afford to pursue an unconventional career because of the safety net of their family wealth).

But what do the bog standard private school kids who have parents on a decent salary (not HUGE wealth and not that many connections) end up doing? Doctors, lawyers? I feel like there isn't that much money in those types of jobs anymore to be honest... Unless you work in those sectors until you're like 50.

Also, do some of them flunk and end up doing crap paying jobs? It's hard for me to imagine a child who was born into privilege end up having a poorer lifestyle than their parents... Does wealth keep accumulating? or do a lot of students don't have any ambition because they already know they're rich and end up just getting crap salary jobs? Hope this makes sense.

Lol yikes. I'm taking this as slight sarcasm, although I have heard stories... This is one of the types of private school students that interests me. Do you think they think because they are so wealthy they are 'untouchable' if they get caught?

This post is absolutely dripping with envy and bitterness. It would appear you don't know private school people and have very skewed perceptions about them.

Yes, both my sons went to private schools. They got there via bursaries (at their primary school, they were on free school meals). I went to comprehensive school, then private school for sixth form.

Both boys ended up at Oxford. Only about 3 other people got in per year. To get in, they had to absolutely work their way into the ground. The ones at the same school, who were as bright, but didn't put that extra effort in, did not get places.

The younger one (medic) is the most driven person I know. Even over Easter he is doing Covid research and writing a paper for publication. He never stops. A private school education is only the starting point. How you get on after that is up to you.

The elder one ended up in a travel company where the pay was below average. All the time he longed to earn more, so in the evening he did an online course to be a ship broker, which he funded from his earnings. There were also networking events that many ship brokers attended and he went along to, to chat about ships and also to get plenty of advice. He would talk to ship brokers via linked in and cold approach ship broking companies. All this effort has absolutely nothing to do with private school, Oxford, or "connections". He makes his own connections.

Most kids at private school were quite bright and had good tuition. They worked hard and got in to all kinds of universities. For most of them, the "connections" aspect did not work, because the kids ended up in different fields to their parents. No "privileged" parent at the school was dishing out jobs to other pupils like smarties. Some went straight into jobs. I know one person, in all that time, who got into a job through "daddy's connections" and that was at my brother's school in the 1980s.

One guy at the private school was not all that bright, but very good at woodwork. He ended up as a successful furniture maker. On the other hand, I also went to what was, at the time, the worst comprehensive school in the county. From the comprehensive, one guy emigrated to Australia and became a millionaire. Another founded a successful business and is very wealthy. Another became a highly paid engineer in Saudi Arabia. Others were equally as successful. Life is what you make it, as they say.

As for being models or footballers from private school, this is one area where you do not need the bank of Mum and Dad. Any person who is good looking can go to a modelling agency with a portfolio, or even be discovered in the street by a scout. Do you think the scout asked Jerry Hall or Kate Moss "I'll only accept you if you go to private school?"

If you want to be a footballer, you need to join maybe the school club, or a local football club, and find out about training academies. Where do you need private school to do that?

I don't know anyone from my, or the children's private schools who became a footballer, sportsperson, or a model.