I do not have the spirit to throw myself into a direct work project[3]
Fwiw, GTP seems like reasonably little evidence about whether you could find a role you enjoyed that you also thought had substantial direct impact. There are so many different roles with direct impact, and setting up your own charity start up is very different from working at existing charity in a more defined role, or working in government, or for a large tech company.
Obviously, changing direction in your career is a substantial undertaking, and it’s reasonable to not want to do it. But the reason shouldn’t be that you hated doing GTP—there are a lot of other options out there that you might find yourself intrinsically motivated by. Seems at least worth a chat with 80k about? [1]
Fwiw, GTP seems like reasonably little evidence about whether you could find a role you enjoyed that you also thought had substantial direct impact. There are so many different roles with direct impact, and setting up your own charity start up is very different from working at existing charity in a more defined role, or working in government, or for a large tech company.
Obviously, changing direction in your career is a substantial undertaking, and it’s reasonable to not want to do it. But the reason shouldn’t be that you hated doing GTP—there are a lot of other options out there that you might find yourself intrinsically motivated by. Seems at least worth a chat with 80k about?
[1]
Not at all biased by how very much I enjoyed working with you at GWWC/CEA :-p