Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by sprocketonline 3449 days ago
I'd recommend taking a look at projects such as 80,000 hours - from their site "Make the right career choices, and you can help solve the world’s most pressing problems, as well as have a more rewarding, interesting life."

https://80000hours.org/

1 comments

Somewhere there's the intersection of: (a) what you want to do - i.e. your interests & 'passions', (b) your skillset, or potential to learn a skillset (c) worthwhile problem to work on (d) something that will financially support you; but this is not a concern in your case (e) something that provides you with dignity, purpose and meaning in life

I like the idea that it's an optimisation problem, to seek something which achieves these criteria and maximises beneficial impact to society.