Thank you for the feedback! We'll take these points into account when we next update the profiles.
I recently received a newsletter from 80,000 Hours noting that new career profile pages had been posted on the 80,000 Hours site. Since I've explored a couple of the careers mentioned there, I wanted to share some thoughts and ask some questions:
Data Science:
Actuarial Science:
I'm going to play devil's advocate here, rather than being balanced; I think that becoming an actuary could be a great choice for some effective altruists. Still, there are a few issues that weren't explicitly covered in the 80,000 Hours post on actuaries:
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I think the difficulty with going to a data science bootcamp without a science PHD or partial PHD is that you are then entering a job market competing with other bootcamp graduates who do have a PHD as an additional qualification. If you have already impressive other qualifications thats probably fine but otherwise you seem at a non-trivial disadvantage all other things being equal
Hopefully we'll have comments available on the career profiles soon so you'll be able to drop your thoughts on there. :)
Thank you.