IME (in the UK) they either go into banking and finance-adjacent industries - often law - or (as noted earlier) they do something "creative" that requires a bit of cultural marketing and generates some output of no particular interest.
The corporate types are all quite cookie-cutter post-aspirational. They run marathons or do some other intensive sports, (mostly) the women play a musical instrument to a near-professional standard, they seem to have an intuitive grasp of how stocks, property, and investment markets work, they're terribly positive and friendly and charming.
The cultural types can be quite good in a limited niche, and they're often collected as trophy spouses by the other types.
The other types you'll meet are military officers - usually male - who are similar to the corporate types but more sporty without much of a cultural side (some of them enjoy consuming.)
And Notable Media Professionals who are a subset of the creative type. They somehow land astoundingly well-paid media jobs as high-profile journalists or writers, despite no evidence of deep insight or investigative ability. And a relatively light workload. (Maybe one article a week, and a few festival appearances a year.) At the very top of the tree they fall into media management at the highest levels - running newspapers and media channels.
All of these jobs are very, very difficult to get into for anyone from a genuinely working class background. They're also marked by very rigid conformity. These people all know how to play the game, and they're incredibly sensitive to insider/outsider status markers.
The idea that someone merely middle class with some working class family history could use the latter as a diversity lever to vault into them is simply nonsense.
The corporate types are all quite cookie-cutter post-aspirational. They run marathons or do some other intensive sports, (mostly) the women play a musical instrument to a near-professional standard, they seem to have an intuitive grasp of how stocks, property, and investment markets work, they're terribly positive and friendly and charming.
The cultural types can be quite good in a limited niche, and they're often collected as trophy spouses by the other types.
The other types you'll meet are military officers - usually male - who are similar to the corporate types but more sporty without much of a cultural side (some of them enjoy consuming.)
And Notable Media Professionals who are a subset of the creative type. They somehow land astoundingly well-paid media jobs as high-profile journalists or writers, despite no evidence of deep insight or investigative ability. And a relatively light workload. (Maybe one article a week, and a few festival appearances a year.) At the very top of the tree they fall into media management at the highest levels - running newspapers and media channels.
All of these jobs are very, very difficult to get into for anyone from a genuinely working class background. They're also marked by very rigid conformity. These people all know how to play the game, and they're incredibly sensitive to insider/outsider status markers.
The idea that someone merely middle class with some working class family history could use the latter as a diversity lever to vault into them is simply nonsense.