80,000 Hours
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- ISBN 9781529957570
- Weight: 300g
- Dimensions: 153 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 May 2026
- Publisher: Cornerstone
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
80,000 Hours is an independent non-profit founded in Oxford in 2011. It performs research into career choice, and provides online and in-person advice.
Benjamin Todd is the co-founder and president of 80,000 Hours. He grew the organisation from a student society at Oxford to the organisation it is today. He has a Master’s degree in Physics and Philosophy from Oxford, and speaks Chinese, badly.
