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80,000 Hours Career Guide — Research-backed guide to a fulfilling career that does good
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Jeffrey Wyman
Thanks.. looks like a great way to influence some positive change 😊
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@benjaminshares We are doing a whole bunch of things in the next few months:
* Delivering workshops at lots of universities - we just hired someone to scale this up
* Further improving this guide based on feedback we get
* Improving our career quiz with more entries: https://80000hours.org/career-qu...
* Increasing the number of problems we assess in our problem quiz: https://80000hours.org/problem-q...
* Attending Effective Altruism Global - a conference with over 1,000 people, which you might like to attend: http://eaglobal.org/
This free guide is based on five years of research alongside academics at Oxford and aims to help you find a fulfilling career that does good. Last year we went through YC which has helped us improve dramatically.
There are 8 articles, each with a video, and a planning tool at the end. 3 example topics we cover are:
* We reviewed over 60 studies about what makes for a dream job. Here’s what we found. (https://80000hours.org/career-gu...)
* All the best advice we could find on how to get a job (https://80000hours.org/career-gu...)
* Why the ideas you’ve heard for doing good with your career aren’t the best (https://80000hours.org/career-gu...)
You can get the guide delivered over 9 weeks by email. It’s the main thing we’ve worked on building since Feb, and grew out of an in-person workshop that was changing lots of careers.
The guide aims to help people switch into careers that have a greater social impact. We can show you:
* Why you can sometimes do more good by taking a higher earning career, like software engineering, and donating to effective charities. Any reader of PN could save hundreds of lives in their career.
* How to work out which global problem is most pressing.
* What psychology says about how to find a satisfying job and make good career decisions.
We’re keen for questions and feedback.
@robertwiblin Thank you for this guide. I spent 2 years in Med School feeling disinterested and like I was being produced to be a cog in the broken machine instead of empowered to help people.
80,000 hours helped me put a logical argument with the emotional experience. I dropped out 2 months later to do my own thing and haven't looked back. Never been more satisfied with life. Without understanding the impact numbers it was difficult to view 6+ years of focused studying and commitment as sunk cost.
@benjaminshares Hey Ben, so glad we could help you! It's great to hear our career guide is changing lives for the better. :)
@donte_ll Thanks so much Donte, let us know what you think when you get to it! :)