Peter Murphy, chief executive, Migraine Association of Ireland, finds the variety in his job and his own experience make it the perfect post.
The association is Ireland's patient group for people with migraine and other headache disorders.
I started getting migraines when I was about seven and they died out from 18 onwards.
So when I joined the association in 2001 as an information officer I knew from the start what the issues were around migraine, that it is very much a hidden disability.
A lot of people who don't have migraine often assume that it is just a headache. The biggest problem is that people often don't understand the impact it has, and how it can, for a lot of people, dominate their lives and affect everything they do - work, social, even planning out their day or month.
About 10 per cent of any population will have migraine at some point in their lives so we work on a round figure of about 400,000 people in Ireland.
For maybe 10-15 per cent of those, their quality of life is affected severely.
We estimate about half a million working days are lost per year in Ireland due to migraine.
I became chief executive of the association in 2003.
We have four staff and I manage the organisation on a day-to-day level so I have staff responsibilities, planning, financial, services - the lot.
The association's role is to provide information and support to people with migraine and also to raise awareness of migraine.
Other themes would be to encourage research in Ireland and to try to improve treatment levels and specialist services.
On a day-to-day basis, after arriving in and getting a coffee and checking my e-mails, what I do depends on what's going on.
I could have a day out of the office or it could be a day looking over the finances, it could be a staff meeting or a day where we are getting a newsletter out. I like it that way.
We organise Migraine Action Week every September and that's our main awareness campaign every year.
We also use the media to try to raise awareness and we do outreach, working with employers and pharmacists and GPs.
We have a website and a range of different publications and newsletters as well.
Our helpline is the first point of contact for most people. We get about 3,000 calls a year on that.
Plus in the past six months we have been establishing a network of self-help groups around the country.
Another thing that takes up a lot of my time is fundraising and, as for any charity, it is an ongoing challenge.
I get a lot of job satisfaction because I do believe in the work we are doing, and any time that we have a success like a campaign or getting a self-help group up and running, there is enormous satisfaction in seeing it come together.
To contact the Migraine Association of Ireland, visit www.migraine.ie