Does someones occupation change your view of them?

So I wondered, how many of you have ever judged someone by their occupation?

Has it affected the way you socialize with them, or even treat them?

I don't think I ever have. I can't even fathom the idea of people doing this. Who cares as long as the person is cool?

I've hung out with strippers as well as nuns, drug dealers... I honestly rarely think about what they do unless I'm curious about something regarding their jobs in which case I just ask.

I'm not a big fan of professional hitmen.

Very touchy subject.

Only if they're black men.

what if they run and own an adult entertainment business...strippers was mentioned...but what if this business was operated in your neighborhood?...not just meaning a strip club...say an adult phone entertainment home business...would you judge someone then...doctors , lawyers , mechanics , professors , police ...many more... all need that service...but would u still judge?

I don't think that anyone should be judged on what profession they choose to do in order to survive, provided that it's legal, but when it comes to drug dealers or other illegal careers that hurt society, a line has to be drawn.

Drug dealers, or weapon smugglers have a choice to do something else, but the idea of making more money than they deserve may be too tempting for them. What of those who get rich by stealing others identity? These people are the scum of the earth, and it shows what type of people they are.

For many of these people it is clear as day that they are lazy, and have no intention of doing the work that it takes in order to get what they desire the right way... the legal way, instead they contribute to ruining other peoples lives. Why? Because it takes far less work to destroy something than it does to build it.

Like I said this is a touchy subject.

Originally posted by Stoic
Drug dealers, or weapon smugglers have a choice to do something else, but the idea of making more money than they deserve may be too tempting for them. What of those who get rich by stealing others identity? These people are the scum of the earth, and it shows what type of people they are.

For many of these people it is clear as day that they are lazy, and have no intention of doing the work that it takes in order to get what they desire the right way... the legal way, instead they contribute to ruining other peoples lives. Why? Because it takes far less work to destroy something than it does to build it.

Not necessarily true...

Of course people should be judged on their professions.

ones profession is a reflection of ones interests, of the amount of or lack of effort one has put into ones life and career and should of course be taken into consideration.

That's not to say that some people land in jobs that don't reflect their interests or life choices at all or than one should determine ones friendship with someone based on that person's job, but to ignore that peron's job, that huge portion of a person's life, is to ignore a large portion of that person.

Originally posted by Final Blaxican
Not necessarily true...

Ok so what causes a person to sell weapons, drugs, or steal anothers identity? There are hard luck cases everywhere granted, and many of those cases have turned things around for themselves the hard way and done good for themselves. Is there some unseen force that keeps these people from integrating into society, and doing the right thing? Please explain these cases that should be excused for destroying another persons life because I just don't see it.

Originally posted by Naz
Of course people should be judged on their professions.

ones profession is a reflection of ones interests, of the amount of or lack of effort one has put into ones life and career and should of course be taken into consideration.

That's not to say that some people land in jobs that don't reflect their interests or life choices at all or than one should determine ones friendship with someone based on that person's job, but to ignore that peron's job, that huge portion of a person's life, is to ignore a large portion of that person.

Well said, and I could not agree more.

Originally posted by Stoic
Well said, and I could not agree more.

Indeed.

Naz is muh heeroh. cry

Yes, a profession can be very much reflective of a person. More importantly, how a person conducts themselves in their profession of "choice" (work habit, employee relations, etc.) is also very indicative of the type of person someone is.

I don't like lazy coworkers/employees. I can tolerate, to a degree, stupid coworkers, but I really can't tolerate lazy coworkers/employees.

As a rule, no. However, experience has shown me that people in certain occupations do tend to be jerks more often than people in other occupations.

Not really, it's obvious most mods work at call centres.

Originally posted by Mindship
As a rule, no. However, experience has shown me that people in certain occupations do tend to be jerks more often than people in other occupations.

Yeah, those epileptic researches are jerks.

Originally posted by dadudemon
Yeah, those epileptic researches are jerks.

Researchers?

I try not to put too much interpretation into it, but most of the time someone's profession will tell you something about them. This isn't the case with everybody, but with someone.

Originally posted by Stoic
Ok so what causes a person to sell weapons, drugs, or steal anothers identity? There are hard luck cases everywhere granted, and many of those cases have turned things around for themselves the hard way and done good for themselves. Is there some unseen force that keeps these people from integrating into society, and doing the right thing? Please explain these cases that should be excused for destroying another persons life because I just don't see it.

At least for drug dealers, in my experience as someone who did sell weed out of my backpack, and as someone who knows many people who used to and or still do sell sell drugs, most of the time it's not a business that people see as something they would want to do all their life, unless they've seen Scarface too many times. But, in general, most drug dealers started when they were kids and young and impressionable. My brother in law started me selling weed when I was nine years old, in the fourth grade. Fortunately for me I moved in with my dad a couple years later into a better neighborhood and so eventually I had a better influence. But for a lot of people that's not the case, and the problem is that when people grow up experiencing drugs and the life style that surrounds it they think that that's just how life is. If you're a bit older and you get some of the money and you can use it to help yourself and your family than it's seen as an even more necessary evil. Eventually you can get a new life and get a job, like I did, but if you sucked in school and doing that sort of thing is all you know, why bother? If I hadn't moved away from Oakland there's a possibility that I'd still sell drugs, probably more than just weed, I'd still be in a gang and I might be a drop out.

To summarize, I feel that gang bangers and drug dealers are more just a casualty of society and nothing more. Do they continue the cycle? Yes. Do they hurt people? Yes. Does that make them inehrently bad people? No. Not usually. From a drug dealers perspective, selling drugs= money. Selling drugs for a gang= protection for you andor your family. Two very important things when you live in a place where you can be killed for being the wrong place at the wrong time.

However, I despise people who do it to just be "gangsta", or whatever the **** it's called. Especially people who've never lived in actual conditions that most real gangsters lived in. In reality real poor people who live in the ghetto don't wear 90 dollars sneakers and have spinners, because they can't afford them. I was in a gang but I was wearing some shitty new balance.

/rant

People are people, it doesnt matter what they do. Unless they are like a drug dealer or a hitman.

*sighs*

over the years i've known strippers and dealers and enforcers, prostitutes, policemen, judges, politicians, pride fighters, street sweepers, sewage workers, music stars...people from just about every corner of society you can imagine...i've even had a drink or two with samuel l jackson and have met and spoke with prince william

they all had something in common...i raped them