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Oisín Considine

47 karmaJoined Pursuing an undergraduate degree

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Hi! I'm a final year undergraduate student at Trinity College Dublin studying Theoretical Physics. I'm primarily interested in animal advocacy as of now, though I'm open to other cause areas too.

How others can help me

I'm still trying to find out concretely what work I'm good at and what I like doing, thus I am looking for opportunities to accumulate some form of career capital (particularly work at some place where I can discover my strengths and aptitudes and improve upon them).

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Currently I see that GWWC is registered in the US, UK and the Netherlands, and there exist country-specific regranting organisations in 11 other countries where one can also avail of some sort of local tax deduction. Do you plan on (if you are able to) expanding the number of countries whose donors can avail of tax deductions, either by getting GWWC registered in those countries or by helping to set up, or link to GWWC, regranting organisations in more countries?

Is it possible to edit the title so it says "Deadline June 5th" instead of "Deadline 6/5" as many people who could potentially be interested in this might look at the title and think the deadline was the 6th of May and thus scroll past the post? Most of the world uses the DD/MM/YY (sometimes also YY/MM/DD) format, so I would imagine that this small change could help a lot and attract more potential applicants.

This seems like a really fantastic opportunity and it would be a great pity if some were to ignore it who otherwise would have been interested in applying simply because they misinterpreted the deadline as being the 6th of May instead of the 5th of June.

I'm so glad you have written this piece and posted it in the EA Forum. I have been diagnosed with ADHD for almost a year now and almost everything you have expressed above resonated with me. There seem to be surprisingly few posts in the EA Forum which describe or take into account the experience of having ADHD.

My curiosity coupled with ADHD has led me to have surface-level knowledge in a wide range of topics and areas but not having much in-depth knowledge about any one particular area. I have always felt like although I really want to dedicate my life to doing as much good in the world as I can, I don't like work that is hard and not immediately rewarding and I cannot maintain medium/long-term projects to be able to contribute in a meaningful way. I often would get a sudden burst of motivation in a particular area and I'm feeling great and researching into it, but then after a while I lose that motivation and I gravitate either to mindless procrastination or to whatever my new motivation is, and I don't go back. I feel like, after a year and a half lurking on the EA Forum, I want to actually (actively) do something, but the above obstacles have prevented me from doing much more than reading some short Forum posts and bookmarking a load of ones that look interesting to me but which I never actually get down to reading.

I have also been a particularly unfortunate case when it comes to medication (I've tried 3 different drugs, 2 different dosages of each, and none have worked for me thus far).

Hi everyone, I am Oisín from Ireland. I am relatively new to EA (about 4 months), and am currently in university studying Theoretical Physics (3rd year), though I'm pretty sure I won't graduate with a first to be quite honest. The general field of EA I would currently be most invested in is animal welfare/advocacy. I am also in the middle of the AAC training course and finding it intruiging. Would you know how someone with my sort of degree could be useful in EAA (effective animal advocacy) or other areas of EA? Thanks for all the advice