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I went through a similar period of soul-searching as the OP (or so I would imagine) back in November, and this is the conclusion I ultimately came to. Even if
by lazerwalker 9y ago
I went through a similar period of soul-searching as the OP (or so I would imagine) back in November, and this is the conclusion I ultimately came to.
Even if you're willing to take e.g. a 50% paycut to write code at a nonprofit, you're likely doing more good taking the obscenely high-paying industry job and donating that half of your salary, as unsexy as that is.
Which isn't to say there aren't meaningful social problems that technology can solve, but rather that the cost/reward curve is often suboptimal if you're optimizing for impact.
- asciimo 9y ago50% is a conservative estimate. If you are a software engineer in the SF Bay Area you can expect a 75% pay cut or more.
- nowarninglabel 9y agoHmm, depends on the non-profit, but in tech-forward non-profits we are often only about 20% below market for most positions: https://www.ctosforgood.org/ https://www.ctosforgood.org/
- bjelkeman-again 9y agoIs CTOs for good US only?
- nowarninglabel 9y agoNot by design, but by circumstance yes. I'm sure we'd be open to folks joining from other nations though as long as they could travel to our once-a-year in-person meetup.
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- simplicitea 9y agoAnd yet, there must be a supply of hackers to which you donate that money.