By Put Barber, who most recently reviewed the book Brandraising.

::image::Let's say you're thinking about your work—maybe changing jobs, maybe finding one—and you'd like what you do for a living to be interesting, pay enough, and, at the end of the day, make a positive difference in the world. Sounds like you might be looking for some sort of a job in public service - working for federal, state or local government, a nonprofit organization, or a for-profit firm that's involved in some way.

The problem? According to Heather Krasna's new book Jobs that Matter, there are some 22 million jobs in government (with more than 30,000 federal jobs vacant at any time), 8.7 million nonprofit jobs, and countless tens of thousands of jobs with contractors who work alongside government agencies and nonprofits doing parallel work. Just thinking about where to start can give you a[...]

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