Hi all! I’m a 40 year old mom who just (re)discovered 80,000 Hours, and through it this forum. I am look at a career change (though I don’t know if I really have had a “career” up to this point), and I have the luxury of taking some time to figure out where I could be most useful and enjoy what I’m working on.
I really like the concept of using my time/skills/money to do the most good, though I find that (I think like many people), I place slightly different value on some parts of EA vs. some of the introductory posts I have read. So far, I am interested in social justice issues, promoting/preserving democracy, what future government might look like, and the general preservation of human life through access to preventative medicine and stable food and water supply.
I have background/some skills in many areas, including electronics repair and manufacturing, inventory management, web design, copy writing, video editing, photography and photo editing, box office/front-of-house, retail customer service, shipping coordination, planning and facilitating children’s programming. I don’t really see how this might get me a job at a very EA-centric company, but who knows.
For now my goal is to learn and connect, so if you have any recommendations for things I should read or just want to say hi, please send me a message.
nice to see you here! The EA movement can help you with your career choices. I really recomment getting in touch with a group either local or virtual.
If you want to learn more about EA, a Fellowship is a good way to learn together and share your different views and arguments or if you want to learn more which career would be a good fit for you book an 1o1 with someone. Don’t be shy to hit on people and write them if you have an idea or a question.
The community is here for you. :)
PS: Reading recommendation time. I belive in you can only give a book away as a present which you have read yourself, so I will recommend you Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind : Harari, Yuval Noah. The title gives its premise away but it really helped me to extent my view on our species and the timescales we are dealing with (important for longtermism and our own historical perspective). I recommend it partially because I just finished Homo Deus from the same author and it makes a good addition to the first book.
Hi all! I’m a 40 year old mom who just (re)discovered 80,000 Hours, and through it this forum. I am look at a career change (though I don’t know if I really have had a “career” up to this point), and I have the luxury of taking some time to figure out where I could be most useful and enjoy what I’m working on.
I really like the concept of using my time/skills/money to do the most good, though I find that (I think like many people), I place slightly different value on some parts of EA vs. some of the introductory posts I have read. So far, I am interested in social justice issues, promoting/preserving democracy, what future government might look like, and the general preservation of human life through access to preventative medicine and stable food and water supply.
I have background/some skills in many areas, including electronics repair and manufacturing, inventory management, web design, copy writing, video editing, photography and photo editing, box office/front-of-house, retail customer service, shipping coordination, planning and facilitating children’s programming. I don’t really see how this might get me a job at a very EA-centric company, but who knows.
For now my goal is to learn and connect, so if you have any recommendations for things I should read or just want to say hi, please send me a message.
Welcome Danielle,
nice to see you here! The EA movement can help you with your career choices. I really recomment getting in touch with a group either local or virtual.
If you want to learn more about EA, a Fellowship is a good way to learn together and share your different views and arguments or if you want to learn more which career would be a good fit for you book an 1o1 with someone. Don’t be shy to hit on people and write them if you have an idea or a question.
The community is here for you. :)
PS: Reading recommendation time. I belive in you can only give a book away as a present which you have read yourself, so I will recommend you Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind : Harari, Yuval Noah. The title gives its premise away but it really helped me to extent my view on our species and the timescales we are dealing with (important for longtermism and our own historical perspective). I recommend it partially because I just finished Homo Deus from the same author and it makes a good addition to the first book.
Also maybe look here:
I scraped all public “Effective Altruists” Goodreads reading lists