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This is your most important decision
You have about 80,000 hours in your career: 40 hours per week, 50 weeks per year, for 40 years.
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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.
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And we’re going to show that — if you have the privilege to have options — you can probably increase the impact of your career not just by a little, but by a huge amount.
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This makes your choice of career the most important ethical decision of your life.
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This means if you can increase the positive impact of those hours just a little, it will probably have a bigger impact than changes to any other parts of your life.