Regarding financial stability, I think it’s wise to save in order to have the runway to sustain yourself for several months without income.
no doubt this is great advice even if you work outside of EA. Still I have the feeling that similar jobs outside EA are more stable, but maybe I’m wrong as I don’t have too much information about how stable are the jobs/companies in EA.
Regarding burnout, often my advice to others in this situation is to “try to give 80% effort”, because attempting to give 100% effort leads to burnout in just a few weeks or months.
is also a great piece of advice that I will have to work to assimilate.
I keep a document where I track the things I’ve applied to. I cross off the ones I don’t get, but it’s very satisfying to underline the ones that I get with a nice green color!
that’s a great idea! I’m going to start doing it and see how it works for me :)
Thanks for your comment Joseph. I see it the same way you do and personally I would like 80k (or a similar organization) to also focus on addressing these types of barriers as I imagine there are also people who would be a good fit for many of the jobs offered on the job board but have more (surmountable) barriers to applying.