I don’t feel so comfortable talking to community health at the moment.
Can you say why? That seems like the obvious first step, so it would make it easier to offer a useful alternative if you could share some part of your hesitation. I don’t know if it would feel any safer to message a stranger, but feel free to DM me your concerns if you prefer (or you can email me if you don’t want them stored on the EA forum). I’m not a support professional, but maybe have enough detachment from but also skin in the EA community to help you figure out next step.
Fwiw I’ve never meaningfully interacted with the community health team, but everyone I know who has has found the experience extremely sensitively dealt with. You certainly won’t be the first person to have had bad experiences with a community manager (and, not to place this on you as a burden, but there’s the extra upside that if other people report similar ‘minor’ concerns as you do that they might add up to someone taking action.)
I would also echo what others have said about being willing to step away from the community. Early career, if you have reasonable alternatives, I suspect you’ll do better personally, and possibly do most good overall if you work for a regular company and build up some skills for a while.
Can you say why? That seems like the obvious first step, so it would make it easier to offer a useful alternative if you could share some part of your hesitation. I don’t know if it would feel any safer to message a stranger, but feel free to DM me your concerns if you prefer (or you can email me if you don’t want them stored on the EA forum). I’m not a support professional, but maybe have enough detachment from but also skin in the EA community to help you figure out next step.
Fwiw I’ve never meaningfully interacted with the community health team, but everyone I know who has has found the experience extremely sensitively dealt with. You certainly won’t be the first person to have had bad experiences with a community manager (and, not to place this on you as a burden, but there’s the extra upside that if other people report similar ‘minor’ concerns as you do that they might add up to someone taking action.)
I would also echo what others have said about being willing to step away from the community. Early career, if you have reasonable alternatives, I suspect you’ll do better personally, and possibly do most good overall if you work for a regular company and build up some skills for a while.