This makes me feel more strongly that there should be a separate career advice organization focused on near term causes. (See here for my original comment proposing this idea.)
A near term career advice organization could do the following:
Write in-depth problem profiles on causes that could be considered to be among the most pressing from a near term perspective but that are not considered to be among the most pressing from a long term perspective (e.g. U.S. criminal justice reform, developing country mental health, policy approaches to global poverty, food innovation approaches to animal suffering, biomedical research focused on aging)
Write in-depth career reviews of careers that could be considered to be among the highest impact from a near term perspective but that are not considered to be among the highest impact from a long term perspective (e.g. careers that correspond with the problems listed in the previous bullet point, specific options in the global poverty space, specific options in the animal suffering space)
Produce a podcast that focuses on interviewing people working on issues that could be considered to be among the most pressing from a near term perspective but that are not considered to be among the most pressing from a long term perspective
Become deeply familiar with the global poverty space, the animal suffering space, and other cause areas that are much more likely to be prioritized by near term people and form close connections to organizations working in such cause areas
Provide job postings, career coaching, and referrals based on the information gained through the previous bullet point
I think the proposed organization would actually complement 80,000 Hours by expanding the number of cause areas for which there’s in-depth career advice and coaching; the two organizations could even establish a partnership where they refer people to each other as appropriate.
(As noted in my original comment, I think it’s better to have a separate organization do this since a long-term focused organization understandably wants to focus its efforts on causes that are effective from its perspective.)
This approach could have various benefits including:
directly increasing impact by providing better advice to individual EAs who are unable to contribute to causes that are considered to be among the most pressing from a long term perspective
benefiting the long-term space by keeping individuals who have the potential to contribute to the long term space involved with EA while they gain more skills and experience
benefiting the long-term space by increasing the number of people who are able to benefit from EA career advice and thus the number of people who will refer others to 80,000 Hours (directly or through this proposed organization)
benefiting the long-term space through the various benefits of worldview diversification (learning from feedback loops, community image, option value)
benefiting individual EAs by helping them find a more fulfilling career (their utility counts too!)
80,000 Hours would likely be supportive of another organisation specialising in global health or factory farming career advising. I’d prefer to divide up by problem areas, rather than long vs. short term. We plan to write more about this.
Worth also noting that The Charity Entrepreneurship Program seems like a great way to get involved with creating a new charity in global health or factory farming.
This makes me feel more strongly that there should be a separate career advice organization focused on near term causes. (See here for my original comment proposing this idea.)
A near term career advice organization could do the following:
Write in-depth problem profiles on causes that could be considered to be among the most pressing from a near term perspective but that are not considered to be among the most pressing from a long term perspective (e.g. U.S. criminal justice reform, developing country mental health, policy approaches to global poverty, food innovation approaches to animal suffering, biomedical research focused on aging)
Write in-depth career reviews of careers that could be considered to be among the highest impact from a near term perspective but that are not considered to be among the highest impact from a long term perspective (e.g. careers that correspond with the problems listed in the previous bullet point, specific options in the global poverty space, specific options in the animal suffering space)
Produce a podcast that focuses on interviewing people working on issues that could be considered to be among the most pressing from a near term perspective but that are not considered to be among the most pressing from a long term perspective
Become deeply familiar with the global poverty space, the animal suffering space, and other cause areas that are much more likely to be prioritized by near term people and form close connections to organizations working in such cause areas
Provide job postings, career coaching, and referrals based on the information gained through the previous bullet point
I think the proposed organization would actually complement 80,000 Hours by expanding the number of cause areas for which there’s in-depth career advice and coaching; the two organizations could even establish a partnership where they refer people to each other as appropriate.
(As noted in my original comment, I think it’s better to have a separate organization do this since a long-term focused organization understandably wants to focus its efforts on causes that are effective from its perspective.)
This approach could have various benefits including:
directly increasing impact by providing better advice to individual EAs who are unable to contribute to causes that are considered to be among the most pressing from a long term perspective
benefiting the long-term space by keeping individuals who have the potential to contribute to the long term space involved with EA while they gain more skills and experience
benefiting the long-term space by increasing the number of people who are able to benefit from EA career advice and thus the number of people who will refer others to 80,000 Hours (directly or through this proposed organization)
benefiting the long-term space through the various benefits of worldview diversification (learning from feedback loops, community image, option value)
benefiting individual EAs by helping them find a more fulfilling career (their utility counts too!)
80,000 Hours would likely be supportive of another organisation specialising in global health or factory farming career advising. I’d prefer to divide up by problem areas, rather than long vs. short term. We plan to write more about this.
That would be great, Ben!
Worth also noting that The Charity Entrepreneurship Program seems like a great way to get involved with creating a new charity in global health or factory farming.