I'm already fairly selfish, really quite arrogant, and extremely power hungry, but maybe I could add to my list of vices in a useful way 
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EA is very overtly utilitarian, yeah.
(Which I actually endorse despite not being an EA and thinking that utilitarianism is an awful moral system - it's much better at a policy level than an individual level)
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Yes, EA provides some useful tools for individuals who are not utilitarian even though it's primarily aimed at utilitarians. But yeah it was a real revelation for me that being, say, the CFO of a startup could be a more altruistic career choice than being a social worker.
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I'd probably describe it as a differently and not less altruistic career choice personally, but yeah the EA "Make and donate lots of money" advice is really good for some people.
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I've been told I'm more of a Kantian after debating utilitarians, but I haven't really read any Kant. It's on my to-do list.
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My (unvalidated) impression is that Kant is pretty unreadable, even in the original version let alone in translation, and you're better off reading https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-deontological/ … I'm more of a virtue ethics sort of genie though.
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