Vegetarian-Careers

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Vegetarian-Careers

 

 

Vegetarian young people of all persuasions have issues with making life work

decisions, developing careers, and living by their vegetarian principles.

 

 

 

Whether one is vegetarian guided by hopes for personal health, ethical

responsibility, ecological stewardship, moral or religious principle, compassion

and animal rights, the personal desire to live one's life as a positive role

model, passion for social and economic justice, maybe the desire to save money

or live free of personal disease and morbidity, or the aesthetic concern to live

harmoniously with one's world, harmonizing one's profession of desirable values

with vocational decision is a challenge for us all.

 

 

 

We never stop making career decisions, whether we become vegetarian young or in

midlife (or later), or see the need for rethinking our economic participation in

youth or later on. Vegetarians of all ages are invited, if we’re thinking about

these issues, again because career changing continues throughout life, and we

never stop making career decisions.

 

 

 

We'll explore those on this list, if we all contribute. Some listmembers may

also be career counselors, recent college grads, midlife career changers,

psychologists, social workers, or vegetarians who advise others either

professionally or informally. But most of all, we hope preteens, teens,

20-somethings, and 30-somethings will join this list and think seriously – as

vegetarians – about vocational, economic, and career issues.

 

 

 

Sometimes educational requirements pose challenges (do we do animal labs, what

kinds of people do I serve or work with, what's the result of my work in this

profession, what kinds of educational opportunities are there for me to find,

what directions can I take my career, what about my weaknesses and skill gaps,

what are the real needs for making a constructive difference through my work,

can I promote vegetarianism through my work efforts, should I consider working

for a vegetarian, animal rights, or advocacy organization -- or possibly

volunteering when and because I've secured myself vocationally, economically,

vocationally, are prospects for marriage and family impacted by vegetarianism

and my vocational decisions and directions and succes, and how, etc.).

 

 

 

Here's an opportunity to share both your insights (and your questions) and your

creative writing skills. So let's contribute; let's not merely lurk (nor merely

question in our own minds, or worse yet, " free associate " ).

 

 

 

Vegetarian young people (and their parents, other vegetarians, and even

vegetarians with issues about their jobs) have issues with life, work, and

career decisions, and with living by their vegetarian principles.

 

 

 

- hopes for personal health

 

- ethical responsibility

 

- ecological stewardship

 

- moral or religious principle

 

- compassion

 

- animal rights

 

- being a positive role model

 

- social/economic justice

 

- economy

 

- harmony with world

 

 

Perhaps you're not the person in need, but a person who can share your insights

and experiences with others; or you may be a person really seeking some light on

your own path, when you make momentous decisions about your own most central

responsibility, yourself, your career, and the way you spend your time

day-to-day, moment-by-moment, for at least a third of your waking hours during

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