I’ve learned that it’s probably optimal to strive for the most high-earning high-productivity career you can accomplish and donate your extra income to effective altruism and that I’m not going to go and try to do that.
There are other things to optimize, and Less Wrong would cheerfully endorse your optimizing for some combination of:
happiness
fun
production/creation that focuses on your comparative advantages
Someone needs to do those things that the high-earning people are paying for, and if you don’t think you’d be happy with an earnings-optimized career, you might be that person.
I’ve learned that it’s probably optimal to strive for the most high-earning high-productivity career you can accomplish and donate your extra income to effective altruism and that I’m not going to go and try to do that.
There are other things to optimize, and Less Wrong would cheerfully endorse your optimizing for some combination of:
happiness
fun
production/creation that focuses on your comparative advantages
Someone needs to do those things that the high-earning people are paying for, and if you don’t think you’d be happy with an earnings-optimized career, you might be that person.