| I think this is a marvellous idea. Environment and climate change is definitely something many of us would want to be able to affect in our daily jobs. On a more universal level, a service like this, not just for climate work, but in more general terms helping people find a position matching their passion would do a great service to the world [1]. Frankly, a lot of us have just wound up in our current positions. If that position happens to be our vocation, it's probably just a happy accident, or then that specific field was very precise, and finding a position matching the passion was easy. In general case, it's not that easy to match these two, due to the work and timing required. The problem is, a lot of people are doing jobs they are not the best match from the point of view of the larger community. They might be good and efficient at their jobs, but if they don't know the full power of their positions, and don't have the passion to push for the change, in the limits of their positions, they might not be the best people for that job. To make the case even more problematic, a lot of positions, ones that people would consider as meaningless, especially in public sector, but also related to environment, actually could offer a lot of power in the right hands, with proper passion. World is filled with wasted opportunities, but a service like this could help remedy some of the pain points. That being said, like mentioned in a comment by
mlthoughts2018 [2], this is not an easy problem to solve, given for one that positions might not match their descriptions. But things have to start somewhere, and I think this is a great start. [1] As a side note, IMHO, I'd like to think this mismatch between a passion and a position being the missing puzzle piece for making things such as public sector competitive over private sector. [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22955566 |
There's a bigger influence, from doing this kind of smaller things en masse that affects the wider discussion in great proportions.
Just a FYI, that all talk about important things, like environment, is more than needed.
[1] Wikipedia describes agenda setting as something only the big media does, but it is something that happens naturally when we discuss about things. Things that are brought up in discussion are implicitly considered important, as they are worth discussing in the first place. Basically agenda setting theory says that by mentioning important things in discussion, and by reminding the participants of the existence of those things, can help change the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda-setting_theory