Some people are "mission driven", as it were. You might be just such a person. There are lots of people like this. If you look at many leaders in the medical de

Some people are "mission driven", as it were. You might be just such a person. There are lots of people like this. If you look at many leaders in the medical device open source & startup communities you'll find a lot of these kinds of people. Often they have a loved one afflicted with or themselves are afflicted with a medical malady which they can apply their technical acumen toward a solution or an improvement, so they take significantly less pay and/or position than they might otherwise be able to achieve just to work on a problem that means something to them. Not everybody has an entirely transactional relationship to their work and that's okay. Where you get yourself into trouble is if you let highly transactional people exploit the fact that you might be mission driven.