I have a fairly long career in IT infrastructure behind me; much of it has been working for banks and a few years ago I decided to try to use my skills for a bit more good. I ended up working for a moderately well-known SaaS company that specialises in helping small businesses.
I’ve recently quit in order to migrate back to the UK, where I did most of my education and built my career. My specialism these days: I have a lot of experience building cloud platforms and my skillset is biased towards today which is mostly useful to large enterprises: AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Observability tooling, automated pipelines, …
I arrive back in the UK in a few weeks and will be starting my job hunt in earnest then. Where can I use these skills to the best effect?
Hi Adam, so exciting that you want to use your skills for doing good. I’d go even further and say that “doing good” is its own goal to shoot for, and I want more folks thinking about “What are the best opportunities to do the most good?” first, and only then filtering by some subset of their relevant skills that might make them a good fit.
This is described more in Part 4 our career guide, where we outline a framework—Scale, Tractability, Neglectedness—to identify global issues with some of the highest opportunities for positive impact. We’ve applied such an analysis in our work for many years, and have in-depth articles on what we believe to be some of the world’s most pressing problems.
We also host a job board to aggregate opportunities aimed at helping with these. If you’re looking for more “goal-directed” next steps, perhaps scanning through those jobs can give you a sense of what the world needs right now, and how you can help. All the best!
I have a fairly long career in IT infrastructure behind me; much of it has been working for banks and a few years ago I decided to try to use my skills for a bit more good. I ended up working for a moderately well-known SaaS company that specialises in helping small businesses.
I’ve recently quit in order to migrate back to the UK, where I did most of my education and built my career. My specialism these days: I have a lot of experience building cloud platforms and my skillset is biased towards today which is mostly useful to large enterprises: AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Observability tooling, automated pipelines, …
I arrive back in the UK in a few weeks and will be starting my job hunt in earnest then. Where can I use these skills to the best effect?
Hi Adam, so exciting that you want to use your skills for doing good. I’d go even further and say that “doing good” is its own goal to shoot for, and I want more folks thinking about “What are the best opportunities to do the most good?” first, and only then filtering by some subset of their relevant skills that might make them a good fit.
This is described more in Part 4 our career guide, where we outline a framework—Scale, Tractability, Neglectedness—to identify global issues with some of the highest opportunities for positive impact. We’ve applied such an analysis in our work for many years, and have in-depth articles on what we believe to be some of the world’s most pressing problems.
We also host a job board to aggregate opportunities aimed at helping with these. If you’re looking for more “goal-directed” next steps, perhaps scanning through those jobs can give you a sense of what the world needs right now, and how you can help. All the best!