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Whatcha gonna do if the "meaningful role" isn't so meaningful to her?

Then it's not a meaningful role -- clearly the role needs to be meaningful to Jean or it's no incentive to work there.

My wife has a "Jean" at the nonprofit she works for -- she and her husband both come from wealthy family. Jean continues to work there purely because she believes in the mission of the organization and feels that she's making a valuable contribution. She draws a token salary but donates that back to the organization at the end of the year.

It's certainly possible to find meaningful roles that people will enjoy working at even if they don't care about the salary.



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