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Recreating a Living Eagle, Globe, and Anchor
Recreating a Living Eagle, Globe, and Anchor
MCRD Parris Island decided to re-create the living Eagle, Globe, and Anchor from 1919 with modern recruits in celebration of their 100th anniversary. There were lots of comments on Twitter about the event.
How many recruits does it take to make an EGA? Today, @MCRDPI celebrated their centennial by recreating the âLiving Eagle, Globe and Anchorâ they made 100 years ago. pic.twitter.com/2fhlZf7âŚ
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Downy woodpecker by agellon03
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ď˝Crested Goshawk With Preyď˝
The Eagle's Nest by Tiefenbachpix
So this weekend at EA Global I overheard Scott Alexander say to some folks that 80,000 Hours will give just about anyone a decent amount of career counseling, often for free, and that they wouldnât turn folks away for being ânot important enoughâ
Now I like Scott and agree with most of what he says but I donât think this is true.
I wrote to 80,000 Hours in December of 2015, I gave them some details of my personal situation (that I have a poor college GPA from mental health problems between  ages 18 and 21) and that I was looking for advice on how to build skills and move into a different career with that constraint. The didnât answer any of my questions about that, they just advised me to get my mental health in order.
When I attended EA Global in 2016, I again sought advice from them. They advised me against doing anything but getting a masterâs degree to change careers, despite my protests that my college GPA (in the humanities) is <2.5. I couldnât really engage them beyond that.
Now, the above things definitely make me an outlier in the EA community! But it also means that you can be interested in EA and changing your career and still have them think youâre not worth their time.
Iirc, the 80,000 Hours homepage says that they focus on âtalented, ambitious graduates in their 20sâ. Now, according to the literal definitions of those words, they all apply to me--I am definitely ambitious, i have a BA, and Iâm 27. Whether I am talented or not depends on your taste in weird acid drawings I guess. But I actually think that they are a dog whistle--I think âtalented, ambitious graduates in their 20sâ in this context means âintellectally gifted, well connected and highly employable people who havenât bogged themselves down in a less-effective field yetâ. They definitely arenât looking to do career rehab for people like me
I understand why 80kH would focus on people who are already doing really well, but it is totally the case that they will refuse to help some people