[Skill profile] “Engineering skills” by Benjamin Hilton

Learn how to get started in an engineering career, and how you can use engineering skills to solve pressing global problems. Narrated by AI. --- Outline: (01:56) Key facts on fit (02:24) Why are engineering skills valuable? (04:56) What specific discipline of engineering is most valuable? (06:04) What does using an engineering skill set typically involve? (06:36) Work in academia (07:27) Work in industry or startups (08:33) How to evaluate your fit (08:37) How to predict your fit in advance (10:08) Assessing your fit for different disciplines of engineering (11:29) How to tell if you're on track (12:00) How to get started building engineering skills (12:05) Getting an engineering degree (13:53) Going into academia (16:04) Entering industry (17:01) Find jobs that use engineering (17:15) Once you have an engineering skill set, how can you best apply it to have an impact? (17:52) Preventing catastrophic pandemics (19:19) AI alignment (20:09) Improving civilisational resilience (21:16) Fight climate change (22:10) Other problem areas that need engineers (22:47) Options outside engineering that can use engineering aptitude (23:42) Career paths we've reviewed that use engineering skills (23:54) Learn more about engineering (24:14) Explore other useful skills The original text contained 2 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: December 15th, 2023 Source: https://80000hours.org/skills/engineering --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. --- Images from the article: Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.