A Judgement Call

[Uzumaki]

Lately I've been real hard up for cash. I've got bills to pay, school, car, insurance, etc, the normal things everybody has to pay. But I have no job to speak of, as I left my last one in October because A) I hated it, and B) I really, really HATED it, and lastly C) it didn't generate any real income as I was only allowed to work a mere 8 hours a week. I signed up at a few temp agencies, but I've gotten a whopping two (2) jobs from them that lasted 4 hours each.

I considered trying to go the way of Internet panhandling, but my pride got in the way, like it did when I got an ultra-lousy job at a local grocery store. Back pain told me I should quit, so I did, and that was 6 months ago.

So that brings me to now. I was surfing classifieds on the net, and saw an ad that would get me substantial amounts of money for basically nothing. However, this job would also require me to do something which clashes with my morals. It's not criminal or anything, and would actually make a lot of people happy, but somewhere far away, in my room, I would be vaguely disgusted with myself.

So what do you think? Should I just suck it up, damning my rigid standards for myself? Thank you in advance. It seems all I can ever do is ask strange or difficult questions of you patient souls.

 

[Crothian]

I guess it really matter s on what the job is. How badly does it clash with your morals?

 

[msd]

Another issue

I was surfing classifieds on the net, and saw an ad that would get me substantial amounts of money for basically nothing. However, this job would also require me to do something which clashes with my morals. It's not criminal or anything...

I don't know you or what you consider to be (im)moral so I can't and won't comment on that element.

I would caution you against internet deals that seem too good to be true. The way you've described makes it sound like it could easily be a scam. Perhaps its not, in which case I'm glad and good luck to you, but on the basis of this description, I would take a good hard look at the company behind the classfied, check with the BBB, etc.

My .02,
-matt

 

[Wycen]

If it involves sending money to Nigeria, or any other place, forget it.

If it involves spamming people, just think of it as "creative targetted marketing" or something like that.

 

[Krieg]

1-900 operators don't make that much...do they?!

 

[Uzumaki]

It's not a get-rich-quick scheme, and I wouldn't be working for anyone persay. I'd be providing a service to someone who can't do a certain thing. It goes against me pretty badly. I've gotten in gnarly arguments with people about it before.

 

[Crothian]

can you post more about what it is or is it not grandma friendly?

 

[the Jester]

It sounds to me like it rubs up against your morals pretty strongly. If you've gotten in major arguments over it, when you get done for the day, will you be able to look at yourself in the mirror?

On the other hand, is this something you're just hung up on? Will working with it help you get over it?

Honestly, you've been vague enough that I don't really know what I'm talking about.

 

[Mercule]

Honestly, you've been vague enough that I don't really know what I'm talking about.

Yeah. What he said.

Too me, it sounds like you're either changing bedpans, collecting bull semen (a manual process, if I understand correctly), or acting as a dominatrix/dominator in Nevada. Or, acting as a "fluffer".

I learned something last year, when I was laid off all year, with a two-year-old daughter; a pregnant, stay-at-home-mother of a wife; and, later, a newborn daughter who was in and out of the hospital for the first several months. That was to never violate your moral code. It can be rough, but money can always come in. Your character can only be sold once.

That said, I still don't know what it is that you're hemming and hawing about. If you have to shovel horse manure (can you tell, yet, that I grew up on a farm?), then you have to shovel horse manure. At the very least, you should be able to get a job at a McDonald's. Better, yet, a movie theatre -- I had a friend that did that for a while.

 

[Uzumaki]

Or, acting as a "fluffer".

What's a "fluffer?"

Okay. I'll just find a normal job. A nice, normal, hopefully-not-as-cringeworthy task. It was nothing Eric's grandmother couldn't handle, but I'd really rather not talk about it.