“80,000 hours” has updated their career guide

One of the sites I consider well worth looking at is “80,000 hours”, which is a career guidance site based on having an effective beneficial impact on the world - and the name comes from the supposed number of hours working in a typical life, but I think it needs to be extended to match the continuing deferral of retirement ages. 

They have now updated their advice. From the email I received on this: 

Hi everyone,

The idea this week: we’ve updated our core advice, and it’s all in our new career guide.

Long-time readers will be familiar with our popular career guide, which, until 2019, contained all the core advice on our website. (You may also remember it as the 80,000 Hours book, 80,000 Hours: Find a fulfilling career that does good.)

We’re re-launching that guide — and republishing the book!

• It’s available as a printed book and audiobook (you can buy it on Amazon or on Audible), and for free as a podcast series and ebook.

Our revamped career guide gathers the best advice we’ve found over the last 10 years for people looking to have a positive impact through their work. 

Every single article has been substantially revamped and updated, and many of them have been completely rewritten (more to come in next week’s newsletter on what we’ve changed and why!). 

Among the things we’ve learned:

• If you want a satisfying career, “follow your passion” can be misleading advice.
• You might be able to do more good as a bureaucrat than a charity worker.
• Many conventional approaches to making the world a better place don’t actually work.

We’ve also come up with more research-backed and hopefully better ways to approach age-old questions like how to figure out what you’re good at and how to be more successful.

As I wrote, well worth considering having a look. 

 

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