I think there’s a meme that high impact careers goes something like: “learn about EA → get involved in EA → get a high impact job”, while for many (most?) people the trajectory is more like “learn about EA → get involved in EA → work in something unrelated to EA and feel disillusioned”.
Your post hopefully helps fix this misunderstanding.
Yeah, and even when finding a classic EA “high impact job” doesn’t work, finding a good E2G job may not work either. And you may not find the time to volunteer. It sucks, but you just try with what you have and what you can. This will be different for everybody. It may require a lot of self-forgiveness. I sure struggle(d) with it. But this is different from completely giving up on having an impact!
Love this.
I think there’s a meme that high impact careers goes something like: “learn about EA → get involved in EA → get a high impact job”, while for many (most?) people the trajectory is more like “learn about EA → get involved in EA → work in something unrelated to EA and feel disillusioned”.
Your post hopefully helps fix this misunderstanding.
Yeah, and even when finding a classic EA “high impact job” doesn’t work, finding a good E2G job may not work either. And you may not find the time to volunteer. It sucks, but you just try with what you have and what you can. This will be different for everybody. It may require a lot of self-forgiveness. I sure struggle(d) with it. But this is different from completely giving up on having an impact!