Marginal REVOLUTION

80,000 Hours: The Book (opens in new tab)

Forty hours a week, fifty weeks a year, forty years: a career is about 80,000 hours. Yet it’s striking how little serious thought goes into career decisions relative to, say, choosing a mortgage. Indeed, you are almost supposed to tell a story about how a random incident changed your life. One summer a circus came […] The post appeared first on . Related Stories

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