This post brought quite a range of thoughts and feelings about my career applying EA principles. On one hand it was a somewhat difficult-to-swallow reality check of challenges that come with being from a low resource context and trying to have an impactful career, especially in terms of the time it might take. I stopped for a moment, realizing that getting to a point in my career, in my context, where I feel impactful might take a while and could be quite challenging. More than that however, sharing your journey really gave me hope that it's possible to create an impactful career despite challenges. Creating an impactful career sometimes feels dreamy because of my context, and perhaps because of that, the idea of it ever becoming a reality is so far out of reach that my effort is not as much as it should be. It’s easy to feel alone with any 'passport', especially when it usually seems like opportunities to have impact are more possible if u come from a high income country. But hearing your story, and thinking of the idea that anyone has their own 'passport', no matter where they are from, makes it easier to accept that my 'passport' shouldn't exclude me from participating in impactful spaces. I really admire your resilience and persistence to follow your dreams. Thank you for sharing this inspirational experience. 

Hello and thank you for making this space available.

From a recruiter's point of view, what is your take on pitching high impact organizations directly? What, if anything, could make this approach work, and what mistakes do pitchers make? Any other tips on using this approach would be highly appreciated. 

Hi, 

I am from a lower-middle-income country (Lesotho) and have a Masters in Public Health. I want to use my career to do impactful work related to Health, but there are few organizations in the Effective Altruism community considered as 'impactful' in the country, for example none suggested by Givewell. At the same time, the country faces high unemployment rates if I were to consider having an impact through civil service. Options to do good according to effective altruism feel out of reach for me as a citizen of Lesotho. How do I navigate having an impact in a low-resource setting? Thanks so much. 

This article is thought provoking and captures the importance of valuing every life, and I think is so important to sensitize people to that value that all life has. The idea that we can't care enough based on feeling it but should trust numbers in our action to trying to make a change for the better to me is so well expressed. Thank you for this piece.