Bertie Wooster is a member of the British upper-class, specifically the Idle Rich. He is perhaps in his late-20s, though an exact age is never given, beyond the fact that he attended Oxford several years ago. He comes from a family of great wealth, and therefore he needs no job to support himself. In fact, he calls betting on horses his career. His days are spent at the gentlemen's club, or having lunch, or visiting an acquaintance's country estate. He has no worries about money, though he wants to accumulate more through betting, and he frequently must give his friends like Bingo and Claude and Eustace money to get by.