That was a weird feeling; I didn’t realize that this was my own comment, and only checked the username when that last paragraph seemed eerily familiar.
As a follow-up: I got a good full-time job starting in January 2015. I’ve got 10% of post-tax earnings from my internships set aside in a savings account to donate when Givewell announces 2015 recommendations, and I’ll add 5% of this year’s pre-tax salary to that donation also. Nothing actually donated yet, but it seems really unlikely that I won’t do it. I’m planning to keep donating 5% of pre-tax as a token amount for the next few years, and have a few plans for how I might be able to donate more later. I was several months late in deciding to do this and setting up the savings account, so my reminder emails didn’t work perfectly, but in the end I did it.
That was a weird feeling; I didn’t realize that this was my own comment, and only checked the username when that last paragraph seemed eerily familiar.
As a follow-up: I got a good full-time job starting in January 2015. I’ve got 10% of post-tax earnings from my internships set aside in a savings account to donate when Givewell announces 2015 recommendations, and I’ll add 5% of this year’s pre-tax salary to that donation also. Nothing actually donated yet, but it seems really unlikely that I won’t do it. I’m planning to keep donating 5% of pre-tax as a token amount for the next few years, and have a few plans for how I might be able to donate more later. I was several months late in deciding to do this and setting up the savings account, so my reminder emails didn’t work perfectly, but in the end I did it.