Making a Social Impact In Your Career (Life at A Think Tank) | Ben Wakefield - EP 10

2023-04-13

Our generation is full of people who want to make an impact, but can't find the right job to do so.

We care about big problems, like climate change, mental health, homelessness, equality and so much more.

There's all this energy. Energy of people wanting to make a difference.

But we rarely get to have a job where we can work on the problems we care about it. We don't get to use all this energy!

Here's what typically happens...

We have a cause we really care about...

We go looking for a job in this area...

A few weeks pass, we don't find many jobs...

We get offered a big juicy check to go work somewhere else...

We take it. It's good work. It's fun...

But it's not what we REALLY care about...

It's not letting us have the impact we crave...

This happens ALL. The. Time.

But Benjamin Wakefield has taken a different path.

He's found a career where he has makes a massive impact on problems he cares about.

I spoke to him for episode 10 and it was so clear how much satisfaction he gets from doing this work. I was actually pretty jealous of him!

So what does he do? Ben works at the John Hopkins Centre for Health Secutiry which is a think tank.

Don't know what a think tank is? No worries, we go into ALL that in the episode.

We talk about how to break into the industry, what life is like working at a think tank and much more.