the.com/mission driven work
the job you'd defend at a dinner party even though it pays like a nonprofit, because it basically is one.
means work where the organization's stated purpose, not just profit, is treated as the main reason to show up and the main metric of success.
from the phrase rides on mission statement, corporate jargon from the 1960s that borrowed its gravity from actual religious missions, then got recycled by nonprofits and later startups trying to sound like nonprofits.
pay tradeoffstudies show workers accept 10 to 25 percent less
burnout riskpurpose can mask exploitation as devotion
startup versionoften a mission statement plus a series a
nonprofit originpredates business use by roughly a century