I think I’ll have to move outside of EA if I don’t get hired soon. Somebody else posted on the Forum recently asking for stories of people who’d left and then come back at a later stage. I didn’t see anyone replying and I wonder how often that happens.
I know of several who have gone down the non-EA PhD route and returned to longtermist researcher roles.
I expect those who find stable, very-well-paid increasingly-senior work they enjoy elsewhere don’t return, of if they do it’s as an EtG donor rather than taking the pay cut implied by an EA-internal job.
I wouldn’t exactly count those kinds of people as “not impactful” though. I imagine they’re out there doing a bunch of good.
Ok, I should’ve clarified to only include professional changes, as in somebody who worked for an EA org, worked somewhere else, and then returned to an EA org in a presumably more senior position.
I expect the same as you—once professionals have left, they don’t or seldom come back. But that’s my speculation only.
I solidly imagine that it’s a combination of whatever made you leave, and the fact that once you’re out you have no inertial drive pushing you to stay.
Thanks Kestrel!
I think I’ll have to move outside of EA if I don’t get hired soon. Somebody else posted on the Forum recently asking for stories of people who’d left and then come back at a later stage. I didn’t see anyone replying and I wonder how often that happens.
I know of several who have gone down the non-EA PhD route and returned to longtermist researcher roles.
I expect those who find stable, very-well-paid increasingly-senior work they enjoy elsewhere don’t return, of if they do it’s as an EtG donor rather than taking the pay cut implied by an EA-internal job.
I wouldn’t exactly count those kinds of people as “not impactful” though. I imagine they’re out there doing a bunch of good.
Ok, I should’ve clarified to only include professional changes, as in somebody who worked for an EA org, worked somewhere else, and then returned to an EA org in a presumably more senior position.
I expect the same as you—once professionals have left, they don’t or seldom come back. But that’s my speculation only.
I solidly imagine that it’s a combination of whatever made you leave, and the fact that once you’re out you have no inertial drive pushing you to stay.