Most of what I said was not attempting to represent 80k at all, though—it was largely based on how I observed real EAs making career decisions, which somehow often got framed as “tech vs. trading” (possibly vs. academia) despite 80k’s excellent advice!
The sentence that you picked out did end ”...and ten or so other second- or third-tier options”, which was my understanding of how that list was organized—perhaps the headings were different the last time I read it or something. At any rate, three of the second four are dominated in the sub-rankings by one of the first four, so I think it’s fair to call them “second-tier” based on that, even if the headings don’t make it explicit.
Yeah, fair—the way I read it at the beginning sounded more like the whole thing was talking about 80k than perhaps it was. Anyway, just wanted to make clear that I think 80k very much agrees with most (if not all) or what you’re saying here :)
Most of what I said was not attempting to represent 80k at all, though—it was largely based on how I observed real EAs making career decisions, which somehow often got framed as “tech vs. trading” (possibly vs. academia) despite 80k’s excellent advice!
The sentence that you picked out did end ”...and ten or so other second- or third-tier options”, which was my understanding of how that list was organized—perhaps the headings were different the last time I read it or something. At any rate, three of the second four are dominated in the sub-rankings by one of the first four, so I think it’s fair to call them “second-tier” based on that, even if the headings don’t make it explicit.
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Yeah, fair—the way I read it at the beginning sounded more like the whole thing was talking about 80k than perhaps it was. Anyway, just wanted to make clear that I think 80k very much agrees with most (if not all) or what you’re saying here :)