Itâs important not to feel as if you are âwastingâ your life because people tell you that you are smart. It seems like a pretty good rule of thumb to prioritise the sustainability of your EA actionsâmaking sure you are happy and comfortable in your job, and putting yourself first.
If you are truly intrisically interested in a career change towards something particularly effective, I wouldnât be super concerned about test scores, they probably arenât the best metric for how youâd do in grad study or fair in your career. Your GPA is great, and being from an âunremarkableâ university wonât matter.
It seems like you may not be so comfortable in more quantitative fields, but 80k recommends heaps of areas that sound like a great fit: Philosophy and Psychology seem like particularly important areas for EAs!
A quick once over on their career reviews section reveals:
Population ethics researcher /â policy analyst
Journalism
Research management
Non-technical roles in technical AI or biorisk research
Startup employee
Startup founding
Community building
Just to gauge more closely, it could be worth expanding that list, and running through this article.
80k has a lot of reflecting to do if what you say about them being not useful to most people is true. In my opinion though that they do try and frame things in a way that appeals to the average competent person!
Itâs important not to feel as if you are âwastingâ your life because people tell you that you are smart. It seems like a pretty good rule of thumb to prioritise the sustainability of your EA actionsâmaking sure you are happy and comfortable in your job, and putting yourself first.
If you are truly intrisically interested in a career change towards something particularly effective, I wouldnât be super concerned about test scores, they probably arenât the best metric for how youâd do in grad study or fair in your career. Your GPA is great, and being from an âunremarkableâ university wonât matter.
It seems like you may not be so comfortable in more quantitative fields, but 80k recommends heaps of areas that sound like a great fit: Philosophy and Psychology seem like particularly important areas for EAs!
A quick once over on their career reviews section reveals:
Population ethics researcher /â policy analyst
Journalism
Research management
Non-technical roles in technical AI or biorisk research
Startup employee
Startup founding
Community building
Just to gauge more closely, it could be worth expanding that list, and running through this article.
80k has a lot of reflecting to do if what you say about them being not useful to most people is true. In my opinion though that they do try and frame things in a way that appeals to the average competent person!