“Career Conversations: Highlights and Retrospective” by Toby Tremlett🔹

Highlights

I enjoyed Career Conversations Week, and I’m thankful to all who took part. There were so many great posts that many of them are under-read/ under-rated. So I’d highly recommend reading a random post from the tag, and adding (or subtracting) karma.

I particularly enjoyed:

• My colleague Rika's 6 years of building an EA-aligned career from an LMIC. As Geoffrey points out in a comment, the concrete details here make the post practically useful as well as motivational.
• Annika Burman's Why You Should Build Your Own EA Internship Abroad. The post is well-written and interesting, and I hope it inspires some readers to create their own internships (abroad or not).
• The comments on the debate I posted, Debate: Are enough EAs earning to give? - especially Calebp's comment, where he bravely articulates the first ‘disagree’ take on a particularly lop-sided poll.  
• The entire Ask Career Advisors Anything [...]

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Outline:

(00:12) Highlights

(01:37) Retrospective

(02:39) How did the week affect Forum growth?

(04:26) Other metrics

(05:16) Work and costs

(05:54) Did you find this event valuable?

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First published:

July 29th, 2025

Source:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/YJZSfxBpyvPtKA3G5/career-conversations-highlights-and-retrospective

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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