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Open thread: Get/give feedback on career plans
gkaufman27@gmail.com3y3
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The bottom line: after filling out the 80,000 hours' career plan worksheet and putting lots of time into it, section 7.1.2 recommends feedback. Send a personal message if there is any interest! Also, it would be a good idea to swap if there are any other career plan worksheets out there that need review.

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MichaelA
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I've sent you a message :) (Though I'd still encourage other readers to offer feedback if they have the time, given that (a) I might only have time for a relatively shallow look, and (b) in any case it's often useful to get multiple different perspectives.) And thanks for offering to swap and give feedback on other people's worksheets. I think it'd be great if that was something that could just regularly happen with pairs of EAs (i.e., that whenever someone fills out such a worksheet, there's somewhere they can go to request/offer to swap and both give and get feedback).
80,000 Hours one-on-one team plans, plus projects we’d like to see
gkaufman27@gmail.com3y1
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The link from Aaron on the Open Thread was helpful. Thanks for pointing the way!

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Open and Welcome Thread: February 2021
gkaufman27@gmail.com3y1
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Would a discord server work better? This is a community platform that is easy to download and maintain. There are individual chats, group forums, and voice channels for all means of communication. With enough support, this can be set up quickly. Please upvote if this is something that sounds useful, and depending on support, there will be a link posted on this post shortly. Keep in mind this discord server could be used for all things EA, besides, connecting individuals and providing an easy place to share documents and stories. Please provide feedback!

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Aaron Gertler
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There are multiple Discord servers with some degree of EA activity. The biggest I'm aware of is "EA Corner" (invite link), which is quite active. Thanks for the reminder to add that to our "useful links" post! The EA Forum is very different from what Discord can accomplish; we want this to be a place where useful posts and discussions are available for decades to come -- a record of EA intellectual progress, as well as a community space for long-form discussion. Discord is great for live chat, but very poor for archiving material or crafting a "body of work". (These open threads are the sort of thing one could replicate pretty well on Discord, but part of why they exist is for people to say hello as they enter the Forum community, so hosting them on a totally different platform would defeat the purpose.)
80,000 Hours one-on-one team plans, plus projects we’d like to see
gkaufman27@gmail.com3y3
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These suggestions are all great. Would a discord server work? This is a community platform that is easy to download and maintain. There are individual chats, group forums, and voice channels for all means of communication. With enough support, this can be set up quickly. Please upvote if this is something that sounds useful, and depending on support, there will be a link posted on this post shortly. Keep in mind this discord server could be used for all things EA, besides, connecting individuals and providing an easy place to share documents and stories. Please provide feedback!

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Aaron Gertler
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In case you haven't seen it, I also replied to this comment when you made it on the Open Thread.
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Michelle_Hutchinson
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I'm afraid I don't really know anything about discord (me and tech are not the best of friends...), but from your description it sounds good! I think there is some EA activity on discord, so maybe you could build off that. I don't know anything about the form it takes or how to find it though unfo - but I'm guessing others on this forum do.
80,000 Hours one-on-one team plans, plus projects we’d like to see
gkaufman27@gmail.com3y3
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Fitting into the described criteria, is there any chance that people would enjoy going over an almost complete career planning worksheet? It is the one found on the 80,000 hours website and is almost complete.

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MichaelA3y15
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Your comment makes me think that something that might be really easy and really valuable is to just have an online space where people are encouraged to share docs outlining their career ideas, plans, and uncertainties (whether that be filled-in versions of the 80k career planning worksheet, or just sections of that, or filled-in versions of other templates, or something else), in order to get feedback and advice.[1]

Obviously people can already take the initiative to do that in ad hoc ways, either in public spaces (like you've done) or via reaching out to s... (read more)

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Open and Welcome Thread: February 2021
gkaufman27@gmail.com3y1
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Trying to figure out a career path.... Ahhhhh. There's a career plan worksheet, and it really needs some feedback. Please comment if giving feedback on a career plan sounds fun. Thanks!

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MichaelA
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I definitely find this feeling relatable from my own career planning! Inspired in part by your similar comment on another post, I've now made an open thread on the Forum for people to request and/or provide such feedback. And: