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Issue 847, Sun 7 June, 2026

Dear Escapees,

Modern life seems to involve an astonishing amount of admin. Passwords, forms, follow-ups, unread emails, chasing people who are themselves chasing people, tiny bureaucratic hurdles that somehow eat half a morning and leave you with nothing to show for it except mild resentment and a new login.

At times it feels as though adulthood has quietly become a long series of attempts to prove you are, in fact, yourself.

Which does rather sharpen your appreciation for work that feels useful. Not glamorous, necessarily, and not the sort of thing anyone writes a smug LinkedIn post about, but work where your effort goes somewhere real and does not get entirely absorbed by systems that seem to have been designed by people who have never had to use them. There is something deeply attractive about jobs that still contain a point.

This week’s Top 10 leans that way a little. Roles where the work appears to do something more solid than simply generate more admin for somebody else.

Happy Escaping,

Team Escape

• Job Title: Impact Manager (fractional)

  Organisation: Origin Coffee

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• Job Title: Associate and Senior Associate roles with the Events Team

  Organisation: Centre for Effective Altruism

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• Job Title: Senior Manager, Business Operations

  Organisation: GiveDirectly

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• Job Title: Investment Manager

  Organisation: Sporting Assets

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• Job Title: Senior Partnerships Manager

  Organisation: Founders Forum

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• Job Title: Operations Lead

  Organisation: Rivan Industries

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• Job Title: Project Manager

  Organisation: GiveWell

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• Job Title: Director & Editor, Social Content

  Organisation: Whalar

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• Job Title: Operations Lead

  Organisation: Good Innovation

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• Job Title: Head of Copy

  Organisation: ZOE

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