I don’t know why I get these Less Wrong articles in my email, but I read this one because of a startling premise: choosing a job based on its monetary value as an investment. I don’t suppose there’s anything wrong with that, it’s just a bit mind-blowing for me. Maybe culture shock? But if so, what culture is this?
Making judgments with limited information is a thing, and what you say about asymmetric loss functions makes total sense. (In other words, I’m on board with the point you were trying to make with this article.) It’s just the idea of applying it to choosing a job, with total dollars earned as an optimization function that surprises me. Maybe that’s what you meant by
Fortunately, I chose Wave for other reasons.
The “other reasons” are probably the reasons I would generally think of, such as whether the things you get to work on are interesting, how much self-direction you get or want, what you think should change in the world and whether the job makes an impact in that area, how it fits into the rest of your life, like the length of the commute, etc.
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No, but I can see how it may be necessary. I guess I’ve been lucky that so far my interests have aligned with jobs that pay well enough for it to not be an issue—I’m sure some fields are more constrained than others. I didn’t think that this would apply to programming, though. (That’s my field, too.)
I don’t know why I get these Less Wrong articles in my email, but I read this one because of a startling premise: choosing a job based on its monetary value as an investment. I don’t suppose there’s anything wrong with that, it’s just a bit mind-blowing for me. Maybe culture shock? But if so, what culture is this?
Making judgments with limited information is a thing, and what you say about asymmetric loss functions makes total sense. (In other words, I’m on board with the point you were trying to make with this article.) It’s just the idea of applying it to choosing a job, with total dollars earned as an optimization function that surprises me. Maybe that’s what you meant by
The “other reasons” are probably the reasons I would generally think of, such as whether the things you get to work on are interesting, how much self-direction you get or want, what you think should change in the world and whether the job makes an impact in that area, how it fits into the rest of your life, like the length of the commute, etc.
FYI you get emails because you once subscribed to our curated email list (presumably). The emails should have an unsubscribe button if you no longer want to receive them.
Do you not choose jobs based (in part) on salary?
No, but I can see how it may be necessary. I guess I’ve been lucky that so far my interests have aligned with jobs that pay well enough for it to not be an issue—I’m sure some fields are more constrained than others. I didn’t think that this would apply to programming, though. (That’s my field, too.)
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