I’m a generalist researcher at Rethink Priorities. I’m on the longtermism team and that’s what I try to spend most of my time doing, but some of my projects touch on global health and some of projects are relevant to animal welfare as well (I think doing work across cause areas is fairly common at RP, though this will likely decrease with time as the org gets larger and individual researchers become more specialized).
I’m happy to talk about my job, but unclear how valuable this is, given that a) “generalist researcher” is probably one of the most well-known of EA jobs and b) Rethink is probably one of the more public EA orgs, at least among orgs that aren’t primarily doing community building, and people interested can look at things like our AMAs (2019, 2020).
I’d be interested in this. Even though “generalist researcher” is well-known, I think it’s easy from the outside to get a distorted picture of the “content” of the job. Aside from this recent post, I don’t know of write ups about it off the top of my head (though there could be ones I don’t know about), and of course multiple writeups are useful since different people’s situations and experiences will be different.
I’m a generalist researcher at Rethink Priorities. I’m on the longtermism team and that’s what I try to spend most of my time doing, but some of my projects touch on global health and some of projects are relevant to animal welfare as well (I think doing work across cause areas is fairly common at RP, though this will likely decrease with time as the org gets larger and individual researchers become more specialized).
I’m happy to talk about my job, but unclear how valuable this is, given that a) “generalist researcher” is probably one of the most well-known of EA jobs and b) Rethink is probably one of the more public EA orgs, at least among orgs that aren’t primarily doing community building, and people interested can look at things like our AMAs (2019, 2020).
I’d be interested in this. Even though “generalist researcher” is well-known, I think it’s easy from the outside to get a distorted picture of the “content” of the job. Aside from this recent post, I don’t know of write ups about it off the top of my head (though there could be ones I don’t know about), and of course multiple writeups are useful since different people’s situations and experiences will be different.
I would love to hear more about your job, and it might be really useful for RP too since they’re hiring ;)