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Careers that make a real difference.

Discover how to change the world through your career.

Eighty thousand hours to make an impact. Start here.

80,000 Hours is a community that encourages people to become effective altruists – people who make helping others a significant part of their lives and try make their help as effective as possible.

Our members focus their careers on helping others by campaigning, innovating, becoming professional philanthropists, improving effective organisations, and researching.

80,000 Hours helps you be an effective altruist by providing a supporting community of dedicated members who share their insights and experience.

Meet our members!

We have 106 members worldwide, you can see them all on the member list.

  • Karwai%20ng
  • Sally_murray
  • Rossa_o_keefe_o_donovan
  • Eric%20gastfriend

Career research

We do research into the best careers for effective altruists. But almost any career can be used to do a huge amount of good. Here’s some example high impact careers.

  • Banker
  • Train driver
  • Campaigner
  • Scientist

Our members think carefully about their careers. They know that it’s not always the careers that are traditionally thought of as ethical that actually do the most good.

For example, there are good reasons to think that you can achieve more by becoming a professional philanthropist than by taking a conventional ethical career - see our video for more. And there are many ways to do even more good again.

Do you have questions about the video? Find answers in our FAQ or send us an e-mail with your opinion to info@80000hours.org.