Benjamin Todd

Now combine our list with your own thoughts to determine the four to eight factors that are most important to you in a dream job.

Four.

When you're comparing your options in the future, you can use this list of factors to work out which is best.

Don't expect to find an option that's best on every dimension.

Rather, focus on finding the option that's best on balance.

The bottom line, what makes for a dream job?

To find a dream job, look for 1.

Work you're good at 2.

Work that helps others 3.

Supportive conditions Engaging work that lets you enter a state of flow, supportive colleagues, lack of major negatives like unfair pay, and work that fits your personal life.

Chapter 2 Can one person make a difference?

What the evidence says It's easy to feel like one person can't make a difference.

The world has so many big problems, and they often seem impossible to solve.

So when we started 80,000 Hours with the aim of helping people do good with their careers, one of the first questions we asked was, how much difference can one person really make?

We learned that while many common ways to do good, such as becoming a doctor, have less impact than you might first think, others have allowed certain people to achieve an extraordinary impact.

In other words, one person can make a difference, but you might have to do something a little unconventional.

In this chapter, we start by estimating how much good you could do by becoming a doctor.

Then we share some stories of the highest impact people in history and consider what they mean for your career.

How much impact do doctors have?

Many people who want to help others become doctors.