#eag

European Auto Group manual swapped A90.

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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 “Living Eagle, Globe and Anchor” they made 100 years ago. pic.twitter.com/2fhlZf7…

Now I like Scott and agree with most of what he says but I don’t 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 didn’t 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 master’s degree to change careers, despite my protests that my college GPA (in the humanities) is <2.5. I couldn’t 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 you’re not worth their time.

Iirc, the 80,000 Hours homepage says that they focus on “talented, ambitious graduates in their 20s”. Now, according to the literal definitions of those words, they all apply to me--I am definitely ambitious, i have a BA, and I’m 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 “talented, ambitious graduates in their 20s” in this context means “intellectally gifted, well connected and highly employable people who haven’t bogged themselves down in a less-effective field yet”. They definitely aren’t looking to do career rehab for people like me