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80,000 Hours
  • Published: 28 May 2026
  • ISBN: 9781804958971
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $36.99

80,000 Hours

How to Have a Fulfilling Career That Does Good

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2 June 2026
EBook
28 May 2026
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28 May 2026
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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.
  • Published: 28 May 2026
  • ISBN: 9781804958971
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $36.99
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About the author

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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Praise for 80,000 Hours

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

DR ALI ABDAAL, author of Feel-Good Productivity

This career guide is among the most thoughtful and grounded I’ve seen.

PROFESSOR CAL NEWPORT, author of Deep Work

This incredible group is helping people have a greater social impact with their careers.

SUE DESMOND-HELLMANN, CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Every college grad should read this.

TIM URBAN, creator of Wait But Why

Based on evidence and good sense, not platitudes.

PROFESSOR STEVEN PINKER, author of Enlightenment Now

If you're worried about wasting your life, read this book. 80,000 Hours is what happens when more than a decade of serious research is distilled into a rigorous manual about what to do with your one life on this planet. This isn't feel-good advice about 'finding your passion'. It's the most careful and honest guide I know to choosing a career that actually makes a difference. I wish I had it when I was young!

RUTGER BREGMAN, author of Humankind

Excellent. 80,000 Hours is the most informative book you can read if you’re stuck trying to make one of life’s most important decisions. If this had been published a decade earlier, it’d have saved me many restless nights.

HANNAH RITCHIE, author of Not the End of the World