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

😂😂very funny

I find it bloody weird if I’m honest.

Maybe they watched too much Bridgerton

Greek Mythology is loads of fun, all those monsters and gods :) The advert sucks and anyone taking the job is in for hell. Awful.

I still don't know what british culture is and would fail the britsh thingy test for foreigners definitely. (UK born and bred)

They just absorbed it effortlessly through our many high class social engagements innit.

Why would it? Anyone can learn to do received pronunciation.

They probably employ Mary Poppins.

Ha ha that's ridiculous. I'm hoping the hapless infant is a true individual and refuses to engage with this hothousing and grows up to form his own band at 15, stays out all night, fraternises with kids from the local comprehensive and then enrols on a heating and plumbing course at the nearest FE college 😁

I'm all for education and cultural enrichment, but this sort of parenting is stupid, because children always arrive pre programmed to a large extent and you will massively come unstuck if you force them in a certain direction, if they're unsuited to it.

Sadly, I don’t have an EYFS qualification but I tick all the other boxes, and I’m currently doing the job unpaid for my DGC 😂

TBF, I haven’t taught them the rules of Eton and Rugby fives or how to address an ambassador yet so I might have to up my game a bit.

Lesson 1: The English will rip the absolute proverbial out of anyone thought to take themselves anywhere near this seriously. They will immediately identify anyone who is comfortable openly advertising the fact as an outsider.

Lesson 2: Being English is a club not even the English can get into.

They can have that advice for free - imagine what, by their payscale, it's actually worth!

Jesus Christ, exactly what HAVE you been teaching them? I hope they're under 5 and still stand a chance.

I think this must be a p take

Let's hope not - what a spoilsport that would be!

Fortunately I have met a couple of parents in my time who would absolutely have written something like this so my enjoyment is not hampered by too high an opinion of human nature 😁.

Teen Dd has barrelled effortlessly into these circles by being gorgeous, fun, great company and a good friend to the dd of an eminent family. They don’t care at all that she goes to a state school and isn’t one of them. So you don’t necessarily need to go to such a massive effort to infiltrate you can do so by accident!

That reads like satire, and i honestly can’t tell the difference anymore.

How did your DD get to know know 'eminent family' friend?

I am assuming this is what the family want from employing an expensive tutor, they want an 'in' to this British upper class clique

Haha… this is INSANE!

I feel sorry for the kid (I sincerely hope he is naturally bright, musical and sporty) and for the unfortunate soul who gets the job.

They will care, when it matters.

“Socially appropriate background”

povvos need not apply

Mine was purely an educated guess. The family is multilingual and looking to cultivate a truly bicultural child. They want the child not to have cultural bias and family will provide the child's domestic cultural education. And the child is already learning several languages and is considered bilingual.

If the parents (or one of them) had been born and raised in england, I feel like they wouldn't need to emphasise the quintessentially English environment.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/oct/22/smart-money-family-offers-18000-a-year-for-tutor-to-get-one-year-old-into-eton

Since when does the Guardian pick this kind of thing up? Stealth advertisement for Tutors International?

All the pushy mums on MN could do the job better than any hired proper tutor.

The sad truth is that rich kids need some normality and common sense above all else and a real parent that reads an actual book with them daily and talks to them with respect and wants them to learn. Add in higher education of the parents and the box is ticked. Why anyone would have to pay for this is beyond me?

That’s exactly what I thought 😂😂

I don’t think my council estate background, getting drunk off lambrini underage and smoking fags, whilst wearing tracksuits with dyed purple hair is exactly what they’re after!

Now picked up by The Times:

Parents look for £180,000 tutor to prepare baby for Eton or Harrow

https://www.thetimes.com/article/152b7c7c-9960-4b47-99ac-07c245d77926?shareToken=c2fb20576051f061f352f6fe8c14ec16

Imagine demanding someone with so much experience and education to act as a nursemaid for your little lordling... Also depressing that someone could have all those skills/requirements and still end up a servant to baby Barnaby.

If I grew up wealthy, spoke in RP, had the world's best education and also encapsulated being QUINTESSENTIALLY ENGLISH I'd be asking for twice the money and a caveat that my hours are limited and 3 days a week for a 4 hour stint.

What a bonkers advert!
I love how their idea of “quintessentially English” is just performative quasi-fictional upper-classness. Like somebody’s been watching too much Paddington and Mary Poppins.