Thanks for the post but the thing is its is just spitballing.. I don’t see that these lists (including what i have seen from 80,000) offer much guidance to people beyond: “be very competent and get a good job and you will have potential to leverage that”
We’ve started to make more and more comparisons at 80,000 Hours e.g. we recommend consulting, tech ent and quant trading, but not investment banking, law or medicine, although these are all in the category of “generally good competitive jobs”. I hope for many more comparisons like this when we’ve prepared more career profiles.
We’ve also found that people find lists like these very useful in our coaching. There are often options that people have overlooked but might actually be promising, or there were aware of but weren’t aware of the arguments in favor of them being high-impact.
Thanks for the post but the thing is its is just spitballing.. I don’t see that these lists (including what i have seen from 80,000) offer much guidance to people beyond: “be very competent and get a good job and you will have potential to leverage that”
We’ve started to make more and more comparisons at 80,000 Hours e.g. we recommend consulting, tech ent and quant trading, but not investment banking, law or medicine, although these are all in the category of “generally good competitive jobs”. I hope for many more comparisons like this when we’ve prepared more career profiles.
We’ve also found that people find lists like these very useful in our coaching. There are often options that people have overlooked but might actually be promising, or there were aware of but weren’t aware of the arguments in favor of them being high-impact.