Tangentially related: I would love to see a book of career decision worked examples. Rather than 80k’s cases, which often read like biographies or testimonials, these would go deeper on the problem of choosing jobs and activities. They would present a person (real or hypothetical), along with a snapshot of their career plans and questions. Then, once the reader has formulated some thoughts, the book would outline what it would advise, what that might depend on, and what career outcomes occurred in similar cases.
A lot of fields are often taught in a case-based fashion, including medicine, poker, ethics, and law. Often, a reader can make good decisions in problems they encounter by interpolating between cases, even when they would struggle to analyse these problems analytically. Some of my favourite books have a case-based style, such as An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks. It’s not always the most efficient way to learn, but it’s pretty fun.
I agree more case studies would be great. Unfortunately I don’t think producing them is going to be at the top of our stack at 80k for at least a year—right now we’re focused on producing content aimed at attracting new readers, and we haven’t generally found this type of material is the best for that.
If someone on the forum would like to write a study of their own career though (or interview someone else), I think that could be a pretty useful piece of content. We’d be interested in incorporating them into our planning process, which could really use more worked examples (and could later develop into the practical kind of book you’re outlining).
More people should write posts like these!! Do you think it would be helpful for people to write posts at the beginning of the 10 years? Like how they are thinking about their decisions, with the intent of revisiting in 10 years? That might be an easier way to get material if you don’t mind waiting 10 years, haha
Tangentially related: I would love to see a book of career decision worked examples. Rather than 80k’s cases, which often read like biographies or testimonials, these would go deeper on the problem of choosing jobs and activities. They would present a person (real or hypothetical), along with a snapshot of their career plans and questions. Then, once the reader has formulated some thoughts, the book would outline what it would advise, what that might depend on, and what career outcomes occurred in similar cases.
A lot of fields are often taught in a case-based fashion, including medicine, poker, ethics, and law. Often, a reader can make good decisions in problems they encounter by interpolating between cases, even when they would struggle to analyse these problems analytically. Some of my favourite books have a case-based style, such as An Anthropologist on Mars by Oliver Sacks. It’s not always the most efficient way to learn, but it’s pretty fun.
I agree more case studies would be great. Unfortunately I don’t think producing them is going to be at the top of our stack at 80k for at least a year—right now we’re focused on producing content aimed at attracting new readers, and we haven’t generally found this type of material is the best for that.
If someone on the forum would like to write a study of their own career though (or interview someone else), I think that could be a pretty useful piece of content. We’d be interested in incorporating them into our planning process, which could really use more worked examples (and could later develop into the practical kind of book you’re outlining).
More people should write posts like these!! Do you think it would be helpful for people to write posts at the beginning of the 10 years? Like how they are thinking about their decisions, with the intent of revisiting in 10 years? That might be an easier way to get material if you don’t mind waiting 10 years, haha