Belly Bean, that is what my first reply suggested, do whatever your heart desires, if you are pleased with your job or not it's your destiny to live that life until your heart makes you change.  Life is about learning everything on earth by experiencing them through Karma known as reaping and sowing.  Before we are qualified to enter everlasting life we have to have experienced every life type and every attribute so once we've metamorphosed we will be able to "transform" into any and communicate with them, the meaning of dominion in Genesis 1:26 & 28. 

As for me, my job is my life.  I was newly conceived between September and October 1973, gestated in the church while working for Southwestern Bell in Dallas, Texas until my New Birth on August 6, 1976 when I left the company to follow the teachings of Jesus (John 3:8), which I began as a crawling baby on September 27, 1976. 

Because it was my destiny to I became born again which has shown me living my belief is the only way not to be a hyporcrite.  By living them I became the seeker of evidence and substance to support my beliefs (Hebrews 11:1), thus, my belief is my job.  

This is a very interesting thread so far! I had a question...

What if the conflict with your beliefs isn't cut and dried, or the same action could go either way? For instance, There's a store down the road that sells 'marital aids'-toys, movies, etc...I also interviewed for an administrative position with that same company (Starship) but didn't know what it was at the time...I didn't get the job anyway, so oh well. But what if I *had*, or what about the people who create the movies and books the store sells? On one hand they could be used within a marriage to spice things up in the bedroom (thus the term 'marital aids'), but on the other hand it could cause someone who is already struggling with problems with lust to go even further down that spiral. I know what is said in some of the Christian scriptures about not doing anything to cause someone else to stumble and about how it would be better for you to have a millstone around your neck than to do that, but how responsible IYO are we expected to be for other people's choices? I've heard a similar question asked about people who work for a company that manufactures guns that could be used in a robbery or could be used to hunt for food for a poor family.

Hi olddragon, why does your job conflict with your beliefs?  Is the conflict based upon religion, pacificism, ethics, morality?

There are some forms of employment I will never accept because they would be anathema to my morality and ethics. Prostitution, drug dealer, preacher are a few.

I  voluntarily resigned one job when it became clear I was employed by a crook who expected his employees to help him cook the books.  I was presented with an ethical challenge by a colleague in another department only a few months ago. After discussing concerns with my supervisor,  he backed me 100%.  Had he not done so, I would probably have been forced to reconsider my employment.

Religious beliefs can limit career choices as well.... Muslims and Jews probably shouldn't work at hog farms,  Scientologists shouldn't pursue careers in mental health support, Christians who refuse to fill prescriptions for BCP or antibiotics should probably not work in pharmacies, etc.

Is this something you can live with, or is a definite line being crossed? If the latter, are you prepared to start looking for a new job or will the same problem crop up with another company? If that is the case, then perhaps a change in the career path may be a long-term option.

Good luck and best wishes,

AS