Benjamin Todd

If you're focused on factory farming, we'd recommend getting involved in the animal welfare community.

If bio-risk, the biosecurity community.

If global health, the international development community, especially those focused on more evidence-based approaches like the randomistas.

If nuclear war or great power conflict, then part of the international relations community.

Lots of academic fields have associated communities.

If you're starting out a career in academia, or are currently in college or grad school, talk to your professors to find out the best conferences to go to.

These are usually worth getting involved in.

Finally, there's been some overlap between effective altruism and the rationality community, and many of our readers have found benefits in both.

The online hub of the rationality community is less wrong.

Next up, let's wrap up our entire career guide.

The end.

A cheery final note.

Imagining your deathbed.

We're about to summarise the whole guide in one minute.

But before that, imagine a cheery thought.

You're at the end of your 80,000 hour career.

You're on your deathbed, looking back.

What are some things you might regret?

Perhaps you drifted into whatever seemed like the easiest option, or did what your parents did.

Maybe you even made a lot of money doing something you were interested in, and had a nice house and car.