To think this dream job is just sad.

[Cucy]

MN posted a link with a ‘dream job’ so of course I clicked it and when I saw the insane salary I read on.

It just made me so sad.

It feels like they’ve had children just to moulded them into what they think is the perfect person.

They waited too long for the 5yo, so now they’re starting on the 1yo.

Its like something out if a movie where babies are bred and moulded into a certain design.

Why not let kids be kids and give them support and opportunities but let them choose their own path.

AIBU to feel so sorry for kids like this?

www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy/private-tutor-london-england-oxfordshire-2256768

That kid only has to marry Princess Charlotte (sounds like it's a boy) and they're in. Or one of the less public royals or upper class members of that "club".

Or at worst, even if they don't get accepted by marriage, if not them, their own child will be in if they stick to the right environment.

LIke it or not, there are examples everywhere, you just need the right connection s. It's the only criteria for choosing a private school for some people!

Sidebar, but it is actually too late to avoid cultural bias. Babies develop a preference for caregivers of their own race at around 9m old.

That has to be spoof. I fully believe that there are parents like that out there but surely they wouldn't be that obvious?

Imagine having all that money and using to try and buy your way into the same room as Prince Andrew and the like. Why not start a charity or something? Part of me hopes a scammer sees the advert and rocks up as Rupert from Chelsea with a posh accent and tweed suit to land the job. Then years later he turns out to be Dan, a scaffolder from Croydon that hired a voice coach and decided to chance his arm. Imagine the Netflix documentary!

Ok Dear 😁, Co-habiting with, is that better.

Yes, they are breaking the upper-class code of inherited superiority. It's about breeding not social climbing. Rishi Sunak comes to mind.

A driver and car will be provided for excursions! Do they mean a driver or a body guard. I would want danger money if there is any possibility of a kidnap attempt😧

And only four weeks holiday. Uhhuh. I am ripping up my application.

You never know, the little English gentleman-in-training might meet the blue-blood love of his life in the soft play area at Lord's 😂

From beyond the grave?

What if the child in question grows up and wants to be an English Lady

Oh please do. It’ll be fascinating to see how far you get.

I provided exactly this for all my kids (starting from birth no less!) They've gone on to one of the most academically selective schools in the country. I should have charged their dad more (I will at least tell him to stop moaning about the state of the house).

One huge difference, though, was that my own kids had my very academic DNA. I'm genuinely curious as to what sort of result I could have got out of a less academically inclined child. (What's that you say? He's a real live human being, not just a science experiment? Bloody ethics committees are determined to ruin all experiments on young children....)

Netflix Christmas movie? Dan the Croydon scaffolder falls in love with the Norland nanny during a romantic montage where the two of them accompany the child to a succession of famous London museums and the Christmas lights at Kew. (There's a comic scene where Dan offers to take him to Winter Wonderland and the family reacts in horror at the idea of all those plebs, nearly blowing his cover.)

I’m chuckling at the idea of a one-year-old making a formal visit to a rowing club…

You didn’t read the entire job spec then?

Well you only have to look at Prince Harry to see all the privilege and education in the world is not necessarily going to make you academically bright.

I really feel sorry for those kids.

I know a lot of old boys from some of the schools they aspire to

I also know that at least one of the schools mentioned did have a company who came in for a week or two and who gave all the boys personality and careers tests and then wrote to the parents to give them the results of what career their child would be best pursuing given the results of the tests and interviews.

I know that one of these boys was given what he thought was a completely ridiculous career path and everyone (including the boy) fell about laughing. Fast forward 30 years and the boy is now a world renown expert in this field

Dh’s parent went against what the results of the testing said and lied to Dh as the career given in pils eyes was beneath what they wanted.
Dh really struggled with what he was told and was never as successful in his career as he would have been had he pursued the career he was supposed to do.
He would keep referring back to what he thought the test results said and could see everyone else doing something that they had an aptitude for.

I wonder what these parents would do if they were in a similar position to in laws and the career was not what they would choose for their ds

This reads like the job description Jacob Rees Mogg's nanny would have had
It's absolutely tragic, that poor child

I’m assuming child number 1 failed their grade 1 piano and isn’t the highest batter at softball cricket and it just isn’t good enough, Horatio, how will you ever be an English gentleman if you don’t get this right!

what a weird, desperate advert. I would be so embarrassed putting that ad out!

I actually do think this is a spoof advert

I get the feeling that this is a fly on the wall comedy sketch with hidden cameras

Either that or parents who should never have had children if they don’t want to look after their children or learn their personalities and their likes and dislikes

No parent can be that ignorant of child rearing (especially 2nd time parents)

If this is a real advert then maybe the parents should start by looking at themselves

They essentially want a child to be part of the English Landed Gentry whilst living in North London
They are not willing to change their own lifestyle and make the first move themselves by buying a country estate and changing to a career in farming and country pursuits and swapping designer suits and dresses for jeans and wellies and getting to know their ds’s

I would love to turn up to the interview with my own list of questions for the parents:

What are their most recent IQ scores?
What is their own level of education?
What was the mother's exact diet and routine in pregnancy?
Was she taking appropriate supplements for 6 months before the pregnancy?
At how many weeks gestation was The Child born?
Was he breastfed, and if so, what supplements was the mother taking at this time? (If he was bottle fed, I would throw my pen down and walk out there and then in disgust)
What is his sleep regime?
What prior learning has he completed?

And whatever the answers to the above, I'd tell them that this child is also already a write-off and that they should go for a third, but make sure they get it right from the beginning this time. This may require one or other parent to find a new, more intelligent, partner.

I was thinking Chris Eubanks

I assume they have hired actual Mary Poppins as his nanny already

How did you teach the English Gentleman bit

"If you are raised in Britain, follow British rules, go to a British school and have British friends - you are going to act British." There is a certain part of society that doesn't really believe this though. Or they want their child to be "British" in the way it matters in old money circles.

More fool them though because what they don't realise is that you can't tutor or buy your way into this. That's why the 5 year old "failed".

😆😆I'd love to see you do that!!! That's just hilarious!