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80,000 Hours

How to Have a Fulfilling Career That Does Good
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80,000 Hours

By: Benjamin Todd
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Brought to you by Penguin.

The classic word-of-mouth bestseller, completely revised and updated for the age of AI

You have about 80,000 hours in your career: 40 hours a week, 50 weeks a year, for 40 years. If you want a rewarding and interesting life that changes the world, your choice of career is one of the most important decisions you’ll ever make.

However, there’s surprisingly little good advice out there. Most career advice focuses on CVs and offers misleading platitudes like ‘follow your passion’. And it insists that if you want to do good you should become a teacher, doctor or a charity worker - even though the evidence suggests that the highest-impact people did nothing of the sort.

A self-published word-of-mouth bestseller, this new edition of 80,000 Hours draws on a decade of research conducted at the University of Oxford to offer you the tools you need to find a career you enjoy, you’re good at, and that tackles the world’s most pressing problems.
© Benjamin Todd 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026

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Critic reviews

A ridiculously in-depth guide about how to find that perfect career for you.
This career guide is among the most thoughtful and grounded I’ve seen.
This incredible group is helping people have a greater social impact with their careers.
Every college grad should read this.
Based on evidence and good sense, not platitudes.
If you're worried about wasting your life, read this book. 80,000 Hours is what happens when more than a decade of serious research is distilled into a rigorous manual about what to do with your one life on this planet. This isn't feel-good advice about 'finding your passion'. It's the most careful and honest guide I know to choosing a career that actually makes a difference. I wish I had it when I was young!
Excellent. 80,000 Hours is the most informative book you can read if you’re stuck trying to make one of life’s most important decisions. If this had been published a decade earlier, it’d have saved me many restless nights.
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