Your Autistic Life FR/EN/ESSeen in a tutoring job ad:
"[My son] is a varsity rower, so efficiency and focus matter."
Gotcha... so I'll be efficient and focused for your son but not for other students.
(Newsflash: I'm always focused and efficient, varsity rower or not.)
Pro-tip, from a math tutor:
When you post a tutoring job ad, be as specific as possible with your ad.
Someone posted an ad.
I replied immediately.
They came to me 1.5 hours after their posting with requirements that were not in the original ad.
Did they conceive of those requirements between having posted the and contacting me?
I doubt it.
They just underspecified in the ad, and corrected that when they decided to talk to me.
We could have saved us both some time if the specifications had been clearly laid out in the original ad, because, guess what,? I would have passed.
Their requirements were legitimate, but I just don't work the way they want. I also have to say that if I had known those requirements, I would have asked for more money. It seems to me what they wanted was more a *teacher* than a *tutor*.
So I passed. I was polite. I did not berate them... but I passed on the offer.
Seen in a job ad:
"I'd like a tutor who can help."
(This was the entire ad.)
It is very important to specify that you'd like a tutor *who can help*. Otherwise, you might get a useless tutor, who just sits there and goes, "bflrpbflrpbflrpbflrpbflrpbflrp..."
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IMPRS Solar System SchoolL. Nortmann, A. Reiners and S. Dreizler are advertising 3 PhD positions in Exoplanet Science at @unigoettingen in the fields of exoplanet atmospheres, radial velocity measurements, and astronomical instrumentation.
ad: https://obp.uni-goettingen.de/en-US/Stellen/StellenDruck/76220
application: https://obp.uni-goettingen.de/de-de/OBF/Index/76220
Deadline to apply is 15 January 2026.
The PhD projects are based on high-resolution spectroscopic observations. The exoplanet atmosphere and radial velocity projects will have access to CARMENES and CRIRES+ data and be embedded in preparation for ELT observations. The project on the radial velocity search for exoplanets will be involved in planning and implementation of the Second Earth and MOSES Spectrographs, and in the PLATO Ground-based observing program. The instrumentation project will focus on calibrating the next generation of high-precision radial velocity spectrographs.
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MPS GöttingenTwo postdoctoral positions in the SWI project for science operations and data calibration
via https://www.mps.mpg.de/career/jobs
Postdoctoral researcher (f/m/d) in SWI Data Calibration
https://karriere.mps.mpg.de/jobposting/8e60b63f3e8816590ea06ecc33d616b12ce38cee0
Postdoctoral researcher (f/m/d) in SWI Science Operations
https://karriere.mps.mpg.de/jobposting/b81c89db137114f1dee1f7fd754ff71423403aff0
Application deadline is Oct, 31. 2025
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