I was doing the 80,000 hours career guide, but I suppose it’s too ambitious for me. I just want to work for an org with a good altruistic mission, not completely maximize my impact. What’s the career advice for that? I’ve been doing full-stack web dev for 11 years now, so I’ve learned a thing or two about running big complicated projects, at least in the software world, but I think this transfers, since complexity is complexity.
I looked at the orgs listed in the software dev career path, but they didn’t seem very inspiring. I’m open to going back to college, but I wouldn’t be sure for what. I hear EA still has an operations bottleneck, but it doesn’t seem like that’s something you can study for, and I’m not sure if transitioning my career to management (a tricky move, as I haven’t really gunned for leadership, though I have been the lead at times) would enable a jump to operations later on.
Sorry to hear you didn’t find what you were looking for in the 80,000 Hours career guide. You could consider checking out this website that maintains a list of social purpose job boards. I’d guess that going through some of those would yield some good options for full stack web-dev roles at organisations with a broad range of missions, hopefully including some inspiring ones!
I was doing the 80,000 hours career guide, but I suppose it’s too ambitious for me. I just want to work for an org with a good altruistic mission, not completely maximize my impact. What’s the career advice for that? I’ve been doing full-stack web dev for 11 years now, so I’ve learned a thing or two about running big complicated projects, at least in the software world, but I think this transfers, since complexity is complexity.
I looked at the orgs listed in the software dev career path, but they didn’t seem very inspiring. I’m open to going back to college, but I wouldn’t be sure for what. I hear EA still has an operations bottleneck, but it doesn’t seem like that’s something you can study for, and I’m not sure if transitioning my career to management (a tricky move, as I haven’t really gunned for leadership, though I have been the lead at times) would enable a jump to operations later on.
Any advice?
80k is not the only one who provides altruistic career advice. You can check out
Probably Good
Animal Advocacy Careers
Successif
There are probably a few more.
Sorry to hear you didn’t find what you were looking for in the 80,000 Hours career guide. You could consider checking out this website that maintains a list of social purpose job boards. I’d guess that going through some of those would yield some good options for full stack web-dev roles at organisations with a broad range of missions, hopefully including some inspiring ones!