Swimmer963 comments on The Centre for Applied Rationality: a year later from a (somewhat) outside perspective - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Swimmer963 29 May 2013 05:24:10AM 7 points [-]

I paid about $1000 total for workshop plus travel. The social confidence and "try new things" aspects led me to obtain a scary part-time job at the hospital that brought well over $1000 in income, plus networking and comfort zone expansion. I also started thinking about job options in terms of different salaries and world-changing leverage, which my brain had previously tagged as somehow immoral. This hasn't yet led to me, for example, moving to the USA where nursing salaries are higher or looking for startup opportunities, but it's explicitly on my mind and I've done a few rough value calculations. I expect the idea of "you don't need to do the same thing for 30 years" will lead to quite divergent events in the next 5 years of my life.