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.
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.