The plan ahead- in the form of questions
The plan ahead
I want to spend a few more days doing some research into particular choices of work, and answering other questions that would help in making the final ABZ choices for my career. With this “essay” I attempt to explore the questions needed to be answered.
Career
Based on 80k hrs’s research it is clear that there are many problems that need people. Right now I don’t know which is the best problem to work on and in what capacity I should work on. Plus I most probably don’t have the skills. As per the suggestions of 80k hrs, we should look to gain flexible career capital and be good at what we do.
What is career capital? what are the best ways to gain it?
What is flexible career capital? what does it mean to have flexible career capital? Some concrete examples of people having flexible career capital please.
What are some examples of things I see myself doing in 10-15 years? Give example career profiles on linkedin, on 80k hours of what you want to become and what you could become.
But to me roughly, I want flexible career capital allowing me to either do direct work in the future, or contribute modest earnings to NGO’s. With that I mean I should be capable of jumping to something bigger and better when the time arises.
A few ways I think I might actually contribute to society in the long run (based on guesstimated personal fit):
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Earn to give in data science / Management consulting / programming
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Working as a researcher at GiveWell, looking at data and determining which place needs funding and how effective they are.
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Having the ability to found companies that can cause much bigger impact
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Manage a business or start something that can make millions or is useful to a large number of people
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or develop capability to have a career like this:
David Goldberg started the ‘Founder’s forum for good’.
Before all that, I spent a couple years in finance (from a philosophy degree) in the US, started and sold a business in Europe, and ran a chain of Segway dealerships in California. - David Goldberg
Types of jobs as a result to focus on
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Sticking to design engineering and maximizing ability to product lead
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Data science
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Programming
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Management consulting at the Big 3
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Investment banking
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Doing a business? Business management and business opportunities writing dumping etc…
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Market-ting
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other things to research
high paying jobs in the Netherlands (200k euros) that I could migrate to?
https://80000hours.org/career-guide/career-capital/#the-bottom-line
Do a profile on each of these specifically answering the following:
Write about the following:
- Skills to be learned
- Connections that will be made
- credentials
- runway
- reflecting on best ways to gain career capital
- working in a highly reputed organization
- quantitative graduate studies
- valuable transferable skill
- allow achieving impressive things
How much does one earn and learn and where can you do that within Holland? Example companies or job profiles I could work in to gain experience.
Ways in which I can migrate to the US/Dubai for each profile
Working in ASML might help? how?
5 different ways of attaining great success within a field Talk about growth, possibilities to direct work in 5 to 10 years, possibilities of earning like crazy, some linkedin studies of people who are successful and people who have jumped careers. Also cite the 80k hours profiles
Always Name your uncertainty, don’t just say its a bunch of shit or its complicated or feel overwhelmed
Going to the US?
What are the different visa-cards?
What are typical ways people go to the US?
How feasible is the idea of going with an L1 visa and getting green card?
Going to Dubai?
What are possibilities for me in Dubai and how do I get there?
How much can I make if I go there and what about financial security?
How long before I get citizenship in Netherlands
Speak to colleagues and friends to understand possibilities of getting a permit, based on my Munich condition?
https://80000hours.org/career-guide/most-pressing-problems/
P.S
The first hour was horrible, 2 and 3 rd hour become better, but not like yesterday. In total 2.5 hrs. I was working on something that I had written earlier, possibly that’s the reason. After first 45 mins took about 40 mins break