The 80,000 Hours Career Guide — Find a fulfilling career that does good
Benjamin Todd & the 80,000 Hours team
An audio version of 2023's 80000 Hours Career Guide (https://80000hours.org/career-guide/). Also available on Amazon, Audible, and free on our website .
It contains 11 chapters, from 'What makes for a dream job?' to 'Which jobs help people the most?' to 'What’s the best way to gain connections?'
It also has 9 appendices on a range of topics like 'All the evidence-based advice we found on how to be more successful in any job' and 'is it ever OK to take a harmful job in order to do more good?'
If you know someone who might find our career guide helpful, you can get a free copy sent to them by going to 80000hours.org/gift.
It contains 11 chapters, from 'What makes for a dream job?' to 'Which jobs help people the most?' to 'What’s the best way to gain connections?'
It also has 9 appendices on a range of topics like 'All the evidence-based advice we found on how to be more successful in any job' and 'is it ever OK to take a harmful job in order to do more good?'
If you know someone who might find our career guide helpful, you can get a free copy sent to them by going to 80000hours.org/gift.
Episodes
Mentioned books
Sep 3, 2023 • 16min
Appendix F: College advice
Sep 3, 2023 • 40min
Appendix I: Problem profile summaries
We aim to list issues where each additional person can have the most positive impact. So we focus on problems that others neglect, which are solvable, and which are unusually big in scale, often because they could affect many future generations — such as existential risks.
