What jobs do private school kids end up doing?

You're still rich though and very privileged. I'm guessing you go the Ladies' College. I know the types that go there and to other private schools in the area. Lots end up studying horse breeding at the Royal Agricultural University

I went to a private school for a year in Y8 and none of the parents were super rich or posh or had contacts that can get you jobs. They were all working professionals, lawyers, consultants who work extremely hard, save and spend money on their children's education rather than other luxury, material things.

Three of the last five Prime Ministers went to fee paying schools.

It is surprisingly harder than you think to maintain/improve your families wealth unless you are a) inheriting a large business/bank account/amount of land or b) motivated to do so.

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Having family and family friends with professional jobs like lawyers are precisely the contacts you can use to get you good jobs. They allow for easy access to that summer job, that internship, even that paid job that gets your foot through the door.

I know because that is the background I come from. It makes life so much easier. I'm always amazed by how blind people can be to their own privilege.

The last several decades of research into intergenerational social mobility in the UK strongly contradicts your claim.

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Having family and family friends with professional jobs like lawyers are precisely the contacts you can use to get you good jobs. They allow for easy access to that summer job, that internship, even that paid job that gets your foot through the door.

I know because that is the background I come from. It makes life so much easier. I'm always amazed by how blind people can be to their own privilege.

I think it would've been less likely your boys would've gotten into Oxford if they didn't go to a private school. Obviously not impossible as state school students also get in, but you can't deny this has been a cause of contention for many years. Even recently with the whole A Level results day last year, many private school kids were given higher grades compared to state school ones, where there could be a student who is very academically gifted but given lower results because of the school he was in.

I'm not sure what your comments boil down to? Are you saying that private school doesn't give any advantage and it's in the person themselves to make the most of their life? Please clarify this as this is what I haven taken from your response. If so, I think you also have a very out of touch point of view. If you truly believed this then why did you not send your boys to a state school and why did you not go to a state sixth form? Honestly your comments echo the hypocrisy of Diane Abbott sending her son to private school.

In addition, I feel students who are at private schools on bursaries and scholarships have a very different experience than those who's paying are paying for their education. By 'very different experience' I mean scholarship students can be seen differently or even 'poor' and be bullied by other students in the year group from rich families. Scholarship students may not be able to join in with other students in some outside school activities simply because their parents can't afford it. Hence, they make the most of their education and work harder at the opportunity.

Exactly lol, they talk as though it’s shelf stacking at Tesco’s. Little do they know that millions of families survive off minimum wage jobs and will never know the wealth or connections of a job like a solicitor

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 👍

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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.

Wait for real?

yup

R u sure they don’t just do drugs cos virtually everyone ik has done drugs at school at one point, but I wouldn’t say they would be 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.