80,000 Hours

byBenjamin Todd

How to Have a Fulfilling Career That Does Good

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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.

© Benjamin Todd 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026

A ridiculously in-depth guide about how to find that perfect career for you.

DR ALI ABDAAL, author of Feel-Good Productivity

About Benjamin Todd

Benjamin Todd is the co-founder and president of 80,000 Hours. He first became interested in the failings of mainstream career guidance as a student when trying to figure out what to do with his own career. This led him to start 80,000 Hours, a non-profit focused on helping people find careers that make the world better. Today, 80,000 Hours is one of the world’s most trusted sources of career advice – its website receives 2 million readers each year, it has given one-on-one guidance to over 5,000 people leading thousands of people to change their career, and its work has been featured in publications such as TIME, Vox and the Wall Street Journal. Benjamin has a Master’s degree in Physics and Philosophy from Oxford, and speaks Chinese, badly.
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  • Imprint: Penguin
  • ISBN: 9781804958971
  • Price: £14.00
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