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The 80,000 Hours Career Guide
Introduction: Why read this guide?
Part 1: What makes for a dream job?
Part 2: Can one person make a difference?
Part 3: Three ways anyone can have an impact
Part 4: Scale, neglectedness, and solvability
Part 5: The world's most pressing problems
Part 6: Which jobs help people the most?
Part 7: Career capital
Part 8: Personal fit
Part 9: How to be successful
Part 10: How to make your career plan
Part 11: How to get a job
Part 12: Community
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Top areas to work on
Preventing an AI-related catastrophe
Catastrophic pandemics
Nuclear war
Great power war
Climate change
Capacity building
Building effective altruism
Global priorities research
Improving decision making
Other promising areas
Civilisation resilience
Artificial sentience
Promoting positive values
Space governance
Risks of stable totalitarianism
Factory farming
Easily preventable or treatable illness
Wild animal suffering
See all problem profiles →
See all →
Top skills to build early in your career
Policy and politics
Organisation-building
Research
Communicating ideas
Software and tech
Engineering
Experience with an emerging power
Expertise relevant to a top problem
See all our skills pages →
See all →
Our list of top high-impact career paths
AI safety technical research
AI governance and coordination
Biorisk research, strategy, and policy
Information security in high-impact areas
Expert in AI hardware
Helping build the effective altruism community
China-related AI safety and governance
Grantmaker
Operations in high-impact organisations
Research into global priorities
More promising paths
Be a founder
Software engineering
Journalism
See more →
How to build great career capital
See our top recommendations →
See all career reviews →
Read the full series →
Introduction
Your most important decision
Foundations
A definition of impact
Longtermism
Harmful jobs
Global priorities
Problem selection
Existential risks
Top problems list
Contribution
How to think about your contribution
Effective solutions
List of high-impact careers
Personal fit
Gut instinct
Differences in productivity
Comparative advantage
Strategy
Ambition
Coordination
Exploration
Impact and satisfaction
Accidental harm
Read the full series →
Career planning and decision making
How to make your career plan
All our other planning resources
Selected topics
Moral philosophy
Career capital
Job satisfaction
Anonymous advice
Unconventional advice
Advocacy
Existential risk
Top-recommended careers
See all topics →
Top articles from outside our guides
Best charities to donate to
Misconceptions about effective altruism
High-impact research questions
What are your chances of getting elected to Congress, if you try?
How many lives does a doctor save?
What's the impact of voting?
Advice for undergraduates
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Anonymous answers: Are there myths you feel obliged to support publicly? And five other questions.
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Anonymous answers: the complete collection
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Anonymous answers: the complete collection
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April
Anonymous contributors answer: How should the effective altruism community think about diversity?
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March
Anonymous contributors answer: What are the biggest flaws of the effective altruism community?
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February
Anonymous contributors answer: What are the biggest flaws of 80,000 Hours?
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Anonymous contributors answer: Should the effective altruism community grow faster or slower? And should it be broader, or narrower?
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Anonymous contributors answer: What’s some underrated general life advice?
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Anonymous contributors answer: How honest & candid should high-profile people really be?
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January
Anonymous contributors answer: What’s one way to be successful you don’t think people talk about enough?
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2019
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Anonymous contributors answer: What mistakes do people most often make when deciding what work to do?
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Anonymous contributors answer: What bad habits do you see among people trying to improve the world?
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Anonymous answers: How risk-averse should talented young people be about their careers?
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Anonymous contributors answer: If you were 18 again, what would you do differently this time around? And other personal career reflections.
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Anonymous answers: What’s the thing people most overrate in their career?
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Anonymous answers: How have you seen talented people fail in their work?
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Anonymous advice: What’s good career advice you wouldn’t want to have your name on?
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Career advice I wish I’d been given when I was young
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