You know, you don’t have to oscillate between the extremes of fundamentalist Christianity and atheism. I find the materialist account of reality doesn’t actually make that much sense when you start poking at it, leaving open the possibility of spirituality. Perhaps you would get something out of reading things like the Tao Te Ching, the Bhagavad Gita, and the Dhammapada, to balance out rationalistic atheism.
There is no one posture that has all the answers.
I was doing the 80,000 hours career guide, but I suppose it’s too ambitious for me. I just want to work for an org with a good altruistic mission, not completely maximize my impact. What’s the career advice for that? I’ve been doing full-stack web dev for 11 years now, so I’ve learned a thing or two about running big complicated projects, at least in the software world, but I think this transfers, since complexity is complexity.
I looked at the orgs listed in the software dev career path, but they didn’t seem very inspiring. I’m open to going back to college, but I wouldn’t be sure for what. I hear EA still has an operations bottleneck, but it doesn’t seem like that’s something you can study for, and I’m not sure if transitioning my career to management (a tricky move, as I haven’t really gunned for leadership, though I have been the lead at times) would enable a jump to operations later on.
Any advice?