To think the idea of “passion careers” has ruined work culture for a lot of women?

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Women especially are told to “follow your passion” - often into underpaid, emotionally exhausting roles. Meanwhile, men are more often encouraged to follow profit.

AIBU to think that the obsession with “doing what you love” has made it easier to underpay and overwork women?

I don’t think this is true. I wasn’t told to go into. Passion career and there are loads of initiatives to get more girls into stem for example

I've never heard the weird term 'passion career' either. Dream job maybe.

I also don't think it's a gender thing. But this is Mumsnet and everything has to come down to men versus women.

Great to see this thread in AIBU and not hidden in FWR.

I have swallowed this hook, line and sinker throughout my working life. I love my career, I love that I am making lasting, significant 'forever' change in children's and families lives, and have crafted a career of great social utility.

But it pays peanuts. So many things my DC will not have experienced because their parents, albeit consummate professionals busting long hours (including evenings and weekends), are both doing lowly do-goody local authority jobs. My friends, who all earn significantly more than me, doing jobs in the private sector or office based roles in the CS or NHS, have all but written me off as I'm always working.

I'd never advise my DC to follow in my career footsteps. I mentor trainees in my profession and always ask them to ensure they have options and an exit strategy, especially the female candidates, as, coupled with traditional gendered expectations of division of labour in the home, female colleagues seem to invariably draw the short straw, given that my career is often touted as 'child friendly'.

Tell me you're a teacher without saying you're a teacher.