Some recruits enter professions specifically to realize ideals of service and sacrifice.

Evidence

Not only do professions embody a service ideal in theory, but also some people, believing the theory to apply in practice, seek to enter the professions in order to have a vocation consistent with ideals of service and sacrifice. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 1456

Categorization

• XREF: Relevant to the psychology literature on why individuals choose frontline public service, versus structural accounts of discretion.