Book description
Find a fulfilling career that tackles the world's most pressing problems, using this guide based on five years of research alongside academics at Oxford.
You have about 80,000 hours in your career: 40 hours a week, 50 weeks a year, for 40 years. This means your choice of career is…
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A research-driven guide to choosing a career with purpose, impact, and long-term satisfaction, anchored in the idea that we spend 80,000 hours of our lives working and those hours should matter.
Todd challenges the myth that meaningful work and financial security cannot coexist. The book outlines pathways ranging from direct service to high-earning philanthropic routes that allow people to contribute to the world in ways aligned with their talents.
After graduating, I often wondered whether I had chosen the wrong path by prioritizing impact over income. This book showed me that you can do both: build a good life and…
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