Working In A Stage Blue Religious Organization

[Logan]

Starting a plumbing job tomorrow in a new state. I’m definitely going to have to become a chameleon and hide my green/yellow ideologies when I’m at work. I’m going to be working with religious people and Trump supporters so I’m interested to see how I fit in. The plan is to stay neutral or focus on the things I do like about those topics and avoid having to stick out or lie.

Curious if anyone else has dealt with a similar situation and what you learned from it.

[Snader]

Yup. I learned to not be too concerned about sharing my ideas and values as I noticed they are not appreciated and often times even pissed on. Same principle works in every social situation.

Although if you can tolerate and conform their stuff, you can gain some trust and respect, that will grant you more room to share your own ideas, if that's what you want.

I don't know what your actual job is like, but from what I've experienced, you can also pretty much avoid the social stuff and just focus on executing your tasks and grinding through the day, in case you can't stomach their toxicity. For a social personality, that's not so easy to do.