Benjamin Todd

For instance, a teacher helps their students, direct impact, but could also develop new educational techniques, research, or tell their students about pressing problems, communication.

We know a teacher who did private tutoring in order to donate more.

As we've seen, often your impact is more about how you use your position than the position itself.

Conclusion In which job can you help the most?

There are many more paths to helping others in your career than we normally talk about.

Elton John started as a singer and saved thousands of lives through earning to give.

Rosa Parks was a seamstress and helped to trigger the civil rights movement in America through communication and advocacy.

Alan Turing was a mathematician who helped to end World War II through research as well as inventing the computer.

Most people aren't born rock stars, but even at a normal graduate salary, anyone can have an astonishing impact through earning to give, literally saving hundreds of lives.

And it's often possible to do even more through communication, research, government policy, or building organizations.

By expanding the range of options you consider, it's often possible to find a path that's not only higher impact, but also a better fit and more satisfying too.

In this way, even if you don't want to be a doctor or a teacher, it's possible to do far more good with your career than is normally thought.

Apply this to your own career.

Before we move on, make an initial shortlist of high-impact careers you could work towards in the long run.

Here's some ways to generate ideas.

1.

Go over each approach in this chapter.

Try to generate two to three more specific paths within each that might be a good fit for you and meet your other personal criteria.

2.

Take your list of pressing problems from earlier.