Transfer Your Skills to a Green Job with Work on Climate’s Eugene Kirpichov

Degrees: Real talk about planet-saving careers

Eugene Kirpichov co-founded Work on Climate, an online community for people passionate about solving the climate crisis, in 2020. Prior to WoC, Kirpichov spent more than seven years as a software engineer with Google. But learning how severe the climate crisis was, he felt he could no longer stay in his job. The resignation letter he shared on LinkedIn went viral.

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Resources from this episode:

• Join Eugene Kirpichov’s Work on Climate community.
• Join other climate-specific communities:
  • Terra Do
  • Women in Climate
  • Climatebase
  • Climate Draft
  • MCJ Collective
  • Greenbiz Sustainability Conference
• Read Kirpichov’s goodbye-to-Google letter.
• Check out the Climate Change and AI report that helped Kirpichov understand which of his skills were transferable.
• Browse other climate-related job boards:
  • GreenBiz Sustainability Jobs
  • Green Jobs Network
  • Climate People
• To find people to follow on LinkedIn, visit LinkedIn’s Top Voices in the Green Economy list.
• Search the hashtag #OpenDoorClimate on LinkedIn to find climate professionals who are willing to chat with you. (This is the movement founded by Daniel Hill. Year of the Climate Job host and director of Environmental Defense Fund’s Innovation Fund.)
• Sign up for the Degrees newsletter.
• Here are some articles we love::
  • Fast Company: He quit Google to work on climate change. Now, he’s helping others do the same thing
  • USA Today: Hiring boom: A two-year degree lands a green energy job that pays ‘a pretty penny’
  • ‘Recession Resilent’ Climate Start-Ups Shine in Tech Downturn

Related episodes:

• How to network for a green job with purpose-driven LinkedIn expert Nick@Noon
• Browngirl Green’s Kristy Drutman: Taking the mystery out of finding a green job

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Degrees: Real talk about planet-saving careers is presented by Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). Daniel Hill hosts The Year of the Climate Job. Yesh Pavlik Slenk hosts Degrees. Amy Morse is EDF’s producer. Podcast Allies is our production company. Stephanie Wolf is senior producer; Kevin Kline is our audio editor; Andrew Parrella is our production manager; Elaine Appleton Grant is CEO of Podcast Allies and Tina Bassir is podcast manager. Our music is Shame, Shame, Shame from Yesh’s favorite band, Lake Street Dive.