Consciousness for your work tasks - What do you give yourself permission to do?

[PepperBlossoms]

What do you tolerate and what do you say absolutely no to in relation to consciousness for in relation to your career?

Most common careers can unknowingly be harming the environment but it is so normalized that it is done without question.  Or the people do it because it gives them money and they care more about the money than the impact on the environment/long term impacts.

You could look at a career like architecture, civil/mechanical/electrical engineering, construction, chef, accountant, software engineer, truck driver, human resources, project manager, surveyor, environmental engineer, clothing designer, computer builder, cashiers, janitors, teacher, doctor, lawyer, real estate, etc. and say - oh these are fine positions with no concern for consciousness.  There is nothing wrong.. but then when you look at what they are allowing/building/nurturing/enabling - - 

fast food chains, gas stations, factories that produce plastic, oil & gas lines, cruise ships that emit lots of pollutants, auto mechanic places that fix gasoline cars or dealerships that sell them, meat packing plants, militaries with guns/bombs, tearing down forests/undeveloped land and turning into concrete paradise.

Someone had to design/build those places, someone has to manage those places, someone has to provide education/medicine/therapy to the people to be able to grow up to design/build/manage/work at those places, someone built the search engines and computer software and computers for those places to aid their work, someone built the wardrobe for those places to wear, someone designed/built the road for the people to get to the office at this place, someone designed/built the homes to house these people, someone grew the food to nourish these people

So do you then A - find a company that does not contribute to this - does not directly say design gas stations? (but what if you still have a gasoline car and so you just rely on other companies to take on those projects but you say no to them?  do you get an electric vehicle?  if you are still driving a gas vehicle - then you are still hurting the environment even if you aren't the one doing the design/construction of the gas station)

B - do something to stop it? 

C - find a city where these industries do not exist so that the taxpayer money for the infrastructure is not aiding the survival of this business - as that business will use the city's water/wastewater/drainage/roadway/electricity/currency/laws/police/fire fighters/residents

What about how employees are treated - what do you let slide and what gets you to leave? If your workplace was not transparent, had bosses lying to your face, various verbal abuse, did not have a mask requirement in response to covid, would you take/stay at that job?

Are there any jobs that can avoid this as best as they can? What have you found?  

It is interesting how even something like something in banking or even excel or microsoft word - those developments are aiding this stuff

If you are a teacher, the students you teach could grow up to work at those places and cause destruction.

If you are a therapist, you could make them feel better about themselves to then do better at their jobs and continue to cause destruction (but one would hope not)

Yeah sure you could legally try to work with psychedelics or write books or go into public policy to try to change things - - 

 

Even if what you did was to aid in the safety of oil/gas - you are still contributing to that type of product.

Even to just build a roads - you are taking away habitat from the other animals/bugs.

To even work in a country that you have to pay taxes in - you may be supporting a government that is bombing other places or doing things that you do not agree with but yet you are forced to pay taxes to - do you leave that country and go elsewhere? do you write about it? do you go into government to change it?

Edited September 17, 2021 by PepperBlossoms