I suppose I’m not putting much weight on it, other than what is required to keep me working at a problem for the long term. The issue there is that I don’t know what working at many of these jobs will be like...
In terms of desires, I would like most of all to have a legitimate ethical system. I value that more than my own wellbeing and my own desires. So I don’t really care what I want other than instrumentally. I do thinks I *want* on my own time, whereas I think for my career I’d like to maximise as much as I can.
At least I think so—it’s hard to know what you really want, right?
Perhaps I’ll end up justifying what I want to do anyway. I suppose this process at least stops me making significantly non-maximal choices.
In that case, it seems plausible that you (and your coworkers) will do more and better work if you’re not just ascetically grinding away for decades (and if they aren’t spending time around someone like that). Perhaps, a good next step is to shadow/intern with/talk to people currently doing these jobs to learn what they look like day to day?
I suppose I’m not putting much weight on it, other than what is required to keep me working at a problem for the long term. The issue there is that I don’t know what working at many of these jobs will be like...
In terms of desires, I would like most of all to have a legitimate ethical system. I value that more than my own wellbeing and my own desires. So I don’t really care what I want other than instrumentally. I do thinks I *want* on my own time, whereas I think for my career I’d like to maximise as much as I can.
At least I think so—it’s hard to know what you really want, right?
Perhaps I’ll end up justifying what I want to do anyway. I suppose this process at least stops me making significantly non-maximal choices.
In that case, it seems plausible that you (and your coworkers) will do more and better work if you’re not just ascetically grinding away for decades (and if they aren’t spending time around someone like that). Perhaps, a good next step is to shadow/intern with/talk to people currently doing these jobs to learn what they look like day to day?