Part 6: Which jobs help people the most?
Answer: When we think of jobs that help people, medicine, teaching, and charity work are what first come to mind. But these are not always the highest-impact options. To help the most people, think broadly about the paths where you can make the biggest contribution, including research, communications and community-building, taking high-earning jobs to donate to charity, government and policy, and organisation-building.
Here we lay out five types of high-impact career.
The 80000 Hours Career Guide — Find a fulfilling career that does good
An audio version of the 2023 80,000 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.
- No. of episodes: 22
- Latest episode: 2023-09-03
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