The EA community has identified a lot of promising career paths. I want to collect a list of high-impact roles which few EAs are entering and potential reasons for why this might be.
Feel free to include:
- Personal experiences: High-impact careers which you (or people you know) have struggled to enter and things that could have helped you.
- Movement-wide observations: High-impact careers which you think are neglected by the EA movement at large. (eg. because EAs typically underestimate the impact of these roles, lack specific skills needed, struggle to gain early-stage career capital, etc.)
Answers here could be directly useful for informing Training for Good’s 2022 strategy. However, please do include answers for which you think “training” is probably not the solution as I imagine others (eg. group leaders) might also be interested in this question.
At EAG London, Will MacAskill suggested that the EA community is lacking professional historians. He discussed that in scenarios of looming civilizational collapse, a better understanding of the development of civilization probably would help us with increasing the odds of the reemergence of broadly moral advanced societies.