Someone else mentioned that enjoyment can be highly organisation specific and even specific to the stage of the organisation.
My thought is something like:
Take a year off and commit yourself to only doing exploration during the year, try out working in different organisations at different scales, maybe more early stage maybe later stage, I’m sure you got some knowledge on what is best here.
Here’s a fun book that mentions optimal exploration exploitation, I think of this a lot when it comes to my own life, it might be useful:
Think about what roles that you can leverage your strategic people management & leadership skills whilst still enjoying the work? If you really want to do more coding then a CTO or similar role somewhere probably makes a lot of sense.
Maybe you could work at a deep tech company?
Maybe early stage startups is something you enjoy more, maybe you’re more of a zero to one type of person?
Figure out what it exactly is that you don’t enjoy, you might be surprised, you might not be.
Test, test, test. If you’ve found yourself able to do this in the past you have a lot of clout to be able to do it again, it is a lot easier for an executive to get investment again, know what people to hire, etc.
I know a bunch of people who have felt similar things to what you’re doing in this moment, specifically people in executive managerial roles. The pattern that I see from everyone is that take a break (shocker!) and then it really varies when it comes to how fast they get back into it again.
Maybe there are specific mental health things you can improve that makes you 20% more effective at listening that can really help at the next thing?
I like to think of it as them decompressing and learning the lessons from the past very focused period before getting back at it again.
Those are some random thoughts, best of luck to you!
I’m not a career councellor so take everything with a grain of salt but you did publically post this asking for unsolicited advice, so here you go!
So, more directly if you’re thinking of EA as a community that needs specific skills and you’re wondering what to do, your people management skills, strategy & general leadership skills are likely to be high in demand from other organisations: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/LoGBdHoovs4GxeBbF/meta-coordination-forum-2024-talent-need-survey
Someone else mentioned that enjoyment can be highly organisation specific and even specific to the stage of the organisation.
My thought is something like:
Take a year off and commit yourself to only doing exploration during the year, try out working in different organisations at different scales, maybe more early stage maybe later stage, I’m sure you got some knowledge on what is best here.
Here’s a fun book that mentions optimal exploration exploitation, I think of this a lot when it comes to my own life, it might be useful:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25666050-algorithms-to-live-by
I thought this book was pretty good for a very specific strategy of quick career role exploration and how you can go about doing that:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26046333-designing-your-life
Think about what roles that you can leverage your strategic people management & leadership skills whilst still enjoying the work? If you really want to do more coding then a CTO or similar role somewhere probably makes a lot of sense.
Maybe you could work at a deep tech company?
Maybe early stage startups is something you enjoy more, maybe you’re more of a zero to one type of person?
Figure out what it exactly is that you don’t enjoy, you might be surprised, you might not be.
Test, test, test. If you’ve found yourself able to do this in the past you have a lot of clout to be able to do it again, it is a lot easier for an executive to get investment again, know what people to hire, etc.
I know a bunch of people who have felt similar things to what you’re doing in this moment, specifically people in executive managerial roles. The pattern that I see from everyone is that take a break (shocker!) and then it really varies when it comes to how fast they get back into it again.
Maybe there are specific mental health things you can improve that makes you 20% more effective at listening that can really help at the next thing?
I like to think of it as them decompressing and learning the lessons from the past very focused period before getting back at it again.
Those are some random thoughts, best of luck to you!