More emotional data point that I wish I'd seen people expressing when I was new:
If you are excited about EA, relatively new, and eager to get involved in a way that looks something like "make this my career" rather than "make this a notable interest in my life," I think you should expect to feel a ton of significant pain, and reflect carefully on if that's worth it for you.
My experience trying to "break in" to the EA movement's professional class has at times made me feel like a worse person, less connected to m... (read more)
Sorry to hear how much misery you've experienced. I'm curious to ask a follow-up question, but feel free to ignore if you aren't comfortable answering.
In particular, I'm wondering whether "make [EA] my career" feels ~identical (to you) to "work at a handful of explicitly EA-motivated employers." If it does, then maybe the messaging or energy or something in the EA community is pretty far from what I think it should be, which is more like what I said in another comment:
There are lots of exciting things for EAs to do besides "apply to one or more of the 20
More emotional data point that I wish I'd seen people expressing when I was new:
If you are excited about EA, relatively new, and eager to get involved in a way that looks something like "make this my career" rather than "make this a notable interest in my life," I think you should expect to feel a ton of significant pain, and reflect carefully on if that's worth it for you.
My experience trying to "break in" to the EA movement's professional class has at times made me feel like a worse person, less connected to m... (read more)
Sorry to hear how much misery you've experienced. I'm curious to ask a follow-up question, but feel free to ignore if you aren't comfortable answering.
In particular, I'm wondering whether "make [EA] my career" feels ~identical (to you) to "work at a handful of explicitly EA-motivated employers." If it does, then maybe the messaging or energy or something in the EA community is pretty far from what I think it should be, which is more like what I said in another comment:
... (read more)