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This is your most important decision - 80,000 Hours

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You have about 80,000 hours in your career: 40 hours per week, 50 weeks per year, for 40 years. This makes your choice of career the most important ethical decision of your life. From adulthood, you’ll spend almost half your waking hours on your career — more than the time you’ll spend eating, on hobbies, and watching Netflix put together. So unless you happen to be the heir to a large estate, that time is the biggest resource you have to help others.

On this page: Introduction 1 How to compare careers in terms of impact: a framework 2 The compounding returns to finding the right career 3 Why not to focus on cutting your carbon footprint (or other lifestyle changes) 4 If such big differences exist, why are they not more widely appreciated? 5 Read next 5.1 Join our newsletter and we’ll mail you a free book "The Scholar" by Osman Hamdi Bey (1842 – 24 February 1910), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons When people think of living ethically, they most often think of things like recycling, fair trade, and volunteering. But that’s mi

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