White male, 27. Not even working class background - is there a level underneath that?

Raised in a council flat in one of the most deprived areas of the country by a single mum who was slowly going blind. No father, brothers or sisters to speak of. School was a shit hole with an ever rotating cast of supply and newly qualified teachers that closed shortly after I left due to poor performance.

I chose a dumb degree at a metropolitan since I had no guidance at all from anyone at school or home as to what path I should take - despite buying and assembling my own robot insects with a soldering iron at age 8. Always felt I should have gone into science or engineering. In any case, I was the first person in my family to get a degree - even if do you get dickheads calling it a 'mickey mouse' degree, I'm still proud of it.

I've managed to work my way up the ranks of a well known company based in Manchester over the six years since I left uni, and I'm now on a comfortable 'average' salary as a data analyst. I'm about to buy my own home. I will be the first person in my (admittedly small) family to not live in a council property. I own two cars (modern for work, one classic for fun!) that I taught myself to maintain - also the first person in my family to own my car. I was taking buses everywhere for 22 years.

I feel my class held me back in terms of education and level of attainment. When I compare myself to some of the middle class kids I went to uni with, many of those got 'ins' into sectors or businesses their families worked in, so almost appeared to 'skip' the initial 5+ years of grafting I had to put in. I also find my hard north Manchester accent gets a few comments on conference calls which I don't particularly mind, but it does make me wonder how I'm perceived.