[HN Gopher] How to know if a job makes a difference
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How to know if a job makes a difference
Author : EndXA
Score : 12 points
Date : 2024-03-11 20:57 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| webwielder2 wrote:
| Unless you're the guy who invented fertilizer, you as an
| individual aren't having a big impact. Just find a place where
| they respect you and you don't cringe when telling people you
| work there.
| idw wrote:
| Agree. I thought the leverage one was the odd one out - more
| ego than impact. I think high impact organizations are usually
| made out of individually low leverage people working together
| drewcoo wrote:
| Maybe it's more like recycling.
|
| Overall, there's probably a net positive in recycling in
| awareness alone, regardless of how much "recycled" material
| just goes to landfills.
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| And it's a way to signal socially to find like-minded people
| for a "safe" work environment. Instead of trying to avoid
| "toxic" workplaces, it's some kind of positive attribute to
| seek out.
| great_psy wrote:
| In an odd twist of faith, the person(Fritz Haber) who's method
| is used to get fertilizer, is also invented zyklon b and was
| used to have a different type of impact.
| mewpmewp2 wrote:
| Depends how you define "big impact". If you influence
| conversion rate for a product that earns EUR100 mil per year by
| 1% you would have impact size of EUR1 mil/year, which if you
| made it yourself could impact the World in any number of ways
| you wanted. EUR1 mil per year impact is at least to me quite
| big.
| tennisflyi wrote:
| This is a very small audience. Most want just/need coin and are
| jumping through crazy interviews processes as seen here somewhat
| frequently
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