The work-life inquiry doesn't phase this Silicon Valley veteran, or trigger an apologetic sigh and explanation. Pettengill's job is her passion is her life. Initiated in 1998 as an extracurricular project at Stanford Graduate School of Business, the company provides nonprofits a sophisticated Net presence, and empowers them to be more efficient, more focused on their social mission, and less distracted by fundraising efforts. On a mission for social justice, Pettengill says she owns up to her work-life marriage because her job is a fairy tale reward for years of hard work and focus. Everyone should aspire to that ideal.
Some people work to live and some people live to work.
I side on the latter. You get the point. After the day's first phone call, Pettengill's time longer belongs to her. Consider the slower pace of many nonprofits. It just isn't challenging enough.