How do you choose a career?

Frameworks for picking a career or path.

Axis: design backwards from the life you want and experiment … pick from your degree

Answers by date: 5 records in 4 sources, newest first; the answers above are the current ones. The advice did not change in these records.

date	who	answer	source
2020-07-13	Molly Hunt	Molly Hunt wishes she had known that doctors need not choose a specialty early: they can take time out or try different specialties before deciding what to train in.	What We Learnt In 2 Years of Being Doctors - Deep Dive with Molly Hunt 00:04:07
2020-04-29	Ali	Torn at 17 between medicine and computer science, Ali chose medicine thinking a doctor who can code is cooler than a coder, and six years at university better than three.	Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive 00:30:56
2020-04-29	Noah Kagan	Noah encourages people to find the work they would do with a million dollars in the bank and do it now, because doing it is how they will earn the million.	Productivity, Books and Careers Advice - Ali Abdaal x Noah Kagan // Deep Dive 00:08:48
2020-04-26	Hasan Kubba	On any career path, Hasan Kubba advises knowing what you are naturally good at: in career and business, double down on your strengths rather than fix your weaknesses; in personal life, work on your weaknesses.	What Makes People Successful? 00:07:46
2018-08-24	Ali	When choosing what to apply for about seven years earlier, Ali reasoned that a doctor who is also a real programmer is more marketable and interesting than just one of the two, so he applied for medicine to combine the fields, which he says has worked out nicely so far.	Answering personal questions - 50k subs Q&A 00:04:43