This is your most important decision

This is your most important decision

I had never thought of it that way: «Your choice of career is the most important ethical decision of your life.»

80’000 Hours is a non-profit that helps people figure out how they can best use their career to help solve the world’s most pressing problems. In this new article, they offer a framework anyone can use to make career decisions. Four factors define your impact:

  • How pressing (or neglected) the problems you focus on are.
  • How effective the solutions you pursue are.
  • The amount of leverage you can apply to those solutions.
  • Your personal fit for the path
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From Weekly Filet #361, in September 2021.

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