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Part 12: One of the most powerful ways to improve your career: Join a community.
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Not many students are in a position to start a successful, cost-effective charity straight out of a philosophy degree. But when Thomas attended an “effective altruism” conference in London in 2018, he discovered an opportunity to start a nonprofit that could have a major impact on factory farmed animals.
Through the community, he received advice and funding, and ended up in an incubation programme. Today, Thomas’s charity, the Fish Welfare Initiative, has reduced the suffering of around one million factory farmed fish, and has an annual budget of over half a million dollars.
If Thomas had just added loads of people on LinkedIn, this would have probably never happened. And this illustrates what many people miss about networking: the value of joining a great community.
Finding the right community can help you gain hundreds of potential allies in one go.
In fact, getting involved in the right community can be one of the best ways to make friends, advance your career, and have a greater impact. Many people we advise say that “finding their people” was one of the most important steps in their career, and life in general.
What’s more, a group of people working together can have more impact than they could individually.
In this article, we’ll explain how joining a community can help, and how to get involved.
Source:
https://80000hours.org/career-guide/community/
Narrated for 80,000 Hours by Perrin Walker of TYPE III AUDIO.
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Not many students are in a position to start a successful, cost-effective charity straight out of a philosophy degree. But when Thomas attended an “effective altruism” conference in London in 2018, he discovered an opportunity to start a nonprofit that could have a major impact on factory farmed animals.
Through the community, he received advice and funding, and ended up in an incubation programme. Today, Thomas’s charity, the Fish Welfare Initiative, has reduced the suffering of around one million factory farmed fish, and has an annual budget of over half a million dollars.
If Thomas had just added loads of people on LinkedIn, this would have probably never happened. And this illustrates what many people miss about networking: the value of joining a great community.
Finding the right community can help you gain hundreds of potential allies in one go.
In fact, getting involved in the right community can be one of the best ways to make friends, advance your career, and have a greater impact. Many people we advise say that “finding their people” was one of the most important steps in their career, and life in general.
What’s more, a group of people working together can have more impact than they could individually.
In this article, we’ll explain how joining a community can help, and how to get involved.
Source:
https://80000hours.org/career-guide/community/
Narrated for 80,000 Hours by Perrin Walker of TYPE III AUDIO.
Share feedback on this narration.