Wow—thank you for the many great comments! Will shoot you a PM. Quick thoughts:
I agree—I think we should target passaionate people and I think this should be something that CEA and CB-orgs consider when recruiting people. To some extent though, I think it is important to also proactively make people more passionate about it!
Career capital problem If I’d hear that one of my friends is going to be a community builder for 10 years, I would worry what they’d work at after that.
I’d expect that EA is one of the orgs that would pay the most in the world to community builders (EA really thinks it’s important + EA has money). So if even EA doesn’t pay “well” (however the person defines it), this is discouraging.
I don’t agree with it being a problem that someone would be a community builder long term. But I think it could be becuase I have a different definition of community builder. I think it is a broad term that could include things like the Global Priorities Project, CEA and ambitious local groups with multiple employees.
I very much agree that community building can be a good excerise in founding a startup! Thank you for the case.
I do think the people I talked to were honest with thinking their new job being more important. I also think many (thought not all) were correct. I also want to stress some people did not mention this.
I agreee weekly 1-on-1s would be good, but that they should be optional.
Many people did mention peer support as one of the best parts of the job. I am sorry if this post gave another impression!
Haha—I love it “EA Community Building for EA Community Building”. There is obvious metameta issued here but I do think it would be valueable. And to some extent this is what CEA is doing.
Thank again! Please hit me up if you would like to talk more about this!
Wow—thank you for the many great comments! Will shoot you a PM. Quick thoughts:
I agree—I think we should target passaionate people and I think this should be something that CEA and CB-orgs consider when recruiting people. To some extent though, I think it is important to also proactively make people more passionate about it!
Career capital problem
If I’d hear that one of my friends is going to be a community builder for 10 years, I would worry what they’d work at after that.
I’d expect that EA is one of the orgs that would pay the most in the world to community builders (EA really thinks it’s important + EA has money). So if even EA doesn’t pay “well” (however the person defines it), this is discouraging.
I don’t agree with it being a problem that someone would be a community builder long term. But I think it could be becuase I have a different definition of community builder. I think it is a broad term that could include things like the Global Priorities Project, CEA and ambitious local groups with multiple employees.
I very much agree that community building can be a good excerise in founding a startup! Thank you for the case.
I do think the people I talked to were honest with thinking their new job being more important. I also think many (thought not all) were correct. I also want to stress some people did not mention this.
I agreee weekly 1-on-1s would be good, but that they should be optional.
Many people did mention peer support as one of the best parts of the job. I am sorry if this post gave another impression!
Haha—I love it “EA Community Building for EA Community Building”. There is obvious metameta issued here but I do think it would be valueable. And to some extent this is what CEA is doing.
Thank again! Please hit me up if you would like to talk more about this!