A business/industry you would not work in?

Homicidal_Squirrel · Feb 25, 2014

sabrinathecat said:
I think, in line with commercial fishing, Whaling needs to be added to the list of "must avoid" jobs.

Yeah, that's one I'd not do. I'd also have to take out anything that requires animal slaughtering. Don't get me wrong, I'll eat the hell out of a steak, I just can't kill the cow and cut the steak out.

trappedslider · Feb 25, 2014

Homicidal_Squirrel said:
Don't get me wrong, I'll eat the hell out of a steak, I just can't kill the cow and cut the steak out.

why not?

Homicidal_Squirrel · Feb 25, 2014

trappedslider said:
why not?

Because.

trappedslider · Feb 25, 2014

Homicidal_Squirrel said:
Because.

cop out

, I'd like to see an in depth defense of why your stance is the way it is and how it come to be that way.

Homicidal_Squirrel · Feb 25, 2014

trappedslider said:
cop out , I'd like to see an in depth defense of why your stance is the way it is and how it come to be that way.

I'd like to win the Power Ball lottery when it gets above 200 million. Looks like we are both in for some disappointment.

trappedslider · Feb 25, 2014

Homicidal_Squirrel said:
I'd like to win the Power Ball lottery when it gets above 200 million. Looks like we are both in for some disappointment.

I'll be sure to pass that on to others when you ask for them for an in depth defense of their stances.

Zombie_Babies · Feb 25, 2014

trappedslider said:
cop out , I'd like to see an in depth defense of why your stance is the way it is and how it come to be that way.

If we're all to be treated the same way this is an unreasonable request.

Homicidal_Squirrel · Feb 25, 2014

trappedslider said:
I'll be sure to pass that on to others when you ask for them for an in depth defense of their stances.

I'm pretty sure they can read my statements on their own. They are free to respond, or not. I asked Umbran about something (can't remember what) and he was able to decline giving details. No one was upset about it, so it's not as if they feel like they have to do as I command. But please, feel free to interrupt and try to derail threads.

gamerprinter · Feb 25, 2014

When I was stationed in Alaska, just about every waitress, bar tender and others with simliar jobs, did that in the winter, while simultaneously working in the fisheries or canneries and related jobs in the summer - every waitress did that. I certainly wouldn't want to work in the crab boat industry, commercial fishing and related, not due to some animal rights reason, rather because of the cold and danger involved. And I'd think that working at a cannery would be a smelly job, it must pay well, and wouldn't have any personal reasons against working at a cannery.

Despite being a manly man (?), I don't care to hunt, nor otherwise kill animals, so I wouldn't work in slaughter house. I had a friend work at a local turkey farm/factory with a smell that I wouldn't want to be around, flies everywhere, and the unseemly knowledge of what really goes on with packaging/processing turkey, poultry or other meats. For example, according to my friend, healthy, normal looking turkeys almost all become prepared whole turkeys for Thanksgiving, but any turkeys with missing limbs (missing by birth or damage) or any other feature that would look bad as a whole packaged turkey becomes turkey nuggets or similar cut pieces. This makes me believe that McDonald's chicken nuggets are made from deformed chickens. Not that that is a health issue, but the idea kind of turns the stomach.

Really, I wouldn't work in the health care industry either for similar reasons. I don't want to actively work around dying people and all the gore.

Similarly I wouldn't want to work in the industrial clothes washing industry (not just because its an extremely low paying occupation), but another friend worked at one, after high school, and bed sheets from hospital beds always included bio-hazard materials, gore, loose hypodermic needles and other risky or discomforting encounters.

I currently am a smoker, but would probably not work for a tobacco company, partly as I have no attaction to moving to the south where those jobs are and not for any other reason. The industry doesn't attract me, but I don't have any personal misgivings for those who do work in that industry.

I've worked sales in the past, in general I hated it, but I also run businesses of my own, and have absolutely no problem with selling my skills, because I'm not selling somebody else's product, I am really just selling me - my graphics skills, talents and creativity.

Nellisir · Feb 26, 2014

gamerprinter said:
When I was stationed in Alaska, just about every waitress, bar tender and others with simliar jobs, did that in the winter, while simultaneously working in the fisheries or canneries and related jobs in the summer - every waitress did that. I certainly wouldn't want to work in the crab boat industry, commercial fishing and related, not due to some animal rights reason, rather because of the cold and danger involved.

I'm not wild about the cold and danger, and I could deal with the cannery. It's not really an "animal-rights thing" IMC; it's a sustainability issue. We're overfishing. We HAVE overfished. Forget about 50% or 75%; they're blowing past 90% reductions from historic population levels in most targeted species. They keep changing what "whitefish" is because they keep wiping out the populations.

I get that the fishermen want to keep working, and honestly, I think the small-scale fishermen aren't the biggest issue - it's the industrial vessels. But either way, there's simply not going to be anything left to catch before long. There are scary-ass drops just in the last 20-30 years; I can't see commercial fishing existing as it does now for another 40 years.

I like fish, and where I grew up there are some great ponds that don't get fished too much anymore and have an overabundance of certain species, so I might try stocking up on some fish when I'm there.