A question about meaningful work: individual role vs organizational mission vs organizational culture.

This kind of an open question, and I guess I’m mainly interested in examples of ways to think about this “problem” as well as experiential examples of these factors in practice either from your experience or second hand.

I am on the periphery of a new job search. Due to my personal beliefs, I am fairly intolerant to a wide range of common organizational missions that would otherwise offer roles for me in the way of communications and writing. My current employment, by offering a mission that is meaningful to me, really goes a long way toward erasing the tedium of my rote customer service role and my evergreen role of bandaging the organization’s systemic sloppy execution of you name it. It also doesn’t pay quite enough, which is more or less a cross to bear, although I’ve also experienced directly how even a really nice paycheck doesn’t stave off depression when the culture of an organization is icky.

Perhaps culture is a third axis to consider, then. So mission, culture, and role. What is your best thinking and experience with these three elements? How should I seat myself with these things as I move forward? Does a sweet spot exist? Have you seen it and what does it look like?