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[–]LtGreenCo 15 insightful - 5 fun15 insightful - 4 fun16 insightful - 5 fun -  (8 children)

autistic focused sex education is my passion and my life's work

This guy must also be autistic if he doesn't know how creepy that sounds.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Recently I have started to see job adverts for teaching posts where they say things like “must have a passion for x” or “must be passionate about x” (x is usually literacy, special needs or maths, never sex education) and I bet that that is something that is appearing in other fields’ employment ads too. It’s no longer possible to simply say “I have a professional interest in x”, you have to act like it’s your religious calling…and it is weird. Very weird.

So it’s weird to describe yourself as having a “passion” for something, but it’s doubly weird for it to be about “sex education” and triply so for it to be about “sex education for autists”.

If I was interviewing someone and they told me that they had a “passion for x”, I’d ask them why….and they better have a very good reason or they’re getting shown the door.

[–]LyingSpirit472 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Well, it makes perfect sense why they want it- they're trying for the "this is my dream job" factor, because employers know if this is what you dream of and it's all you've ever wanted to do, they can pay you as low as they want to because hey, what're you going to do, walk away from your life's dream and the one thing you're skilled at (guaranteeing it's this or McDonald's/Walmart forever)?

[–]jet199[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Because you can pay less for a passion than you do for experience and qualifications.

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's a brilliant insight.

[–]TaseAFeminist4Jesus 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Been that way in software development for at least 15 years.

There was also a trend of asking for "rock stars," "ninjas," and the like. Thankfully that seems to be fading. The concept of a "PHP assassin" or a "Microsoft Azure paladin" is too autistic for even computer programmers.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Teaching post ads in England (the other UK countries have their own Ed systems) are a particularly conservative thing, they all basically read alike as the job descriptions for most posts are identical. So it doesn’t surprise me that it’s taken a decade or more for the trend to hit.

[–]BISH 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Must havea passion for accounting.

[–]TaseAFeminist4Jesus 1 insightful - 4 fun1 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

For some of us it's cars, or sports, or maybe art... this guy wakes up on a Saturday all worked up to jack off Rain Man.