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'A job is what you do for other people. A career is who you are.
A Career Mission is driven by a desire to solve a particular set of problems. Your job is just whoever happens to be paying for you to do your mission at any one time. A career potentially spans many of these mission oriented jobs.
Having a mission helps you decide how to work: which projects to say yes to and which ones to pass on.'