Want Meaningful Work? Look to the Bedrock of Modern Life
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Komatsu experts Mark Schaeffer, vice president for strategy (left), and Neil Johnson, test development manager (right) in the Komatsu Arizona Proving Grounds workshop near Tucson, Arizona.
Leslie Hawthorne Klingler
"You spend so much of your life at work; it should be meaningful, something that contributes to society," says Mark Schaeffer, vice president for strategy at Komatsu Mining Technology Solutions in Tucson.
He thinks he's found his sweet spot in an industry oft-dismissed by the idealistic: mining. "There's no getting around it—mining contributes to society in a big way," he says.