I am an engineer and I am Muslim. I wonder what everyone else here does for living and their religion! Please... Pretty Please and Thank you.... and how does what you do affect your religion?
For me it affects me into that what I ask must make sense 100% and it should be logical......
NO INSULTS PLEASE and STICK TO THE QUESTION
2006-09-28 03:27:23 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I am a Christian. I work as a janitor/maintenance for a town.
I chose this job so that so that I would not have to work on Sunday(sabbath).
2006-09-28 03:31:07 · answer #1 · answered by tim 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I am a Catholic and an engineer. The only way I can think that my career effects my religion is that because of the hours I work, I am not able to go to Mass evry day. Instead, I read teh daily scripture readings every day and meditate on them.
More so, my religion has an effect on my career. Being a Catholic, I treat each and every client with the respect that is due to them as being made by the Creator. This also applies to everyone I work with from teh president of the company to the guy who is responsible for keeping the bathrooms clean. I treat them with equal respect.
I am also honest in all of my dealngs with people and I do not play office politics that would further my career at the detriment of someone else's career. If someone asks for my help, I give it.
2006-09-28 10:37:30 · answer #2 · answered by Sldgman 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, sure, we're fairly open to discussion about religion in my office, and that effects my spirituality (usually for the better).
And I must say my religion has effected my career, I belong to a Christian church in which drinking alcohol, and smoking is against our beliefs. I interned at an advertising agency (I'm a writer/graphic designer) and told my boss that I didn't want to be a part of advertising these products. Needless to say, at the end of the internship, he didn't offer me a job.
I now do in-house advertising for a home-building company because there's nothing about promoting homes that is against my religion or ethics.
2006-09-28 10:39:07 · answer #3 · answered by daisyk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a degree in Electrical Engineering, and I am a Patent Attorney. My religion is Christian.
I agree that religion should be logical. But logic does not always mean that you have absolute proof. Faith is often based on probabilities, not certainties.
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Does my faith affect my work? Jesus requires me to to be fair to everyone, irregardless of what I think of them as a person. And the Apostle Paul said that I should always do a good job for everyone, and charge them fairly, or else God will judge me.
2006-09-28 10:32:46 · answer #4 · answered by Randy G 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My religion affects my profession. Though I'm not formally a Buddhist, I adopted the principles of the Eightfold Path while working in a store that sold both meat and live bait. I've now switched out to working in a clothing store and working more on my home business, since the other place wasn't working with the principle of Right Work--that your job should cause no suffering, even indirectly.
2006-09-28 10:31:51 · answer #5 · answered by angk 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I am a hobo and atheist.
Being an atheist provides me the opportunity to pretend to be whichever religion is popular in the communities I visit. Or, if necessary, pretend to be of a competing cult so the residents are compelled to make every effort to convert me to their way of thinking.
2006-09-28 10:41:30 · answer #6 · answered by Left the building 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I worked for the Y.M.C.A. and there were no problems in following my basic Christian teaching with a few customizing points of the Ancient Ways I added to it. I am quite satisfied with the results although I am certain this belief system of mine works for me and me alone.
2006-09-28 10:35:14 · answer #7 · answered by Marvin R 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I teach psychology at the college level. I'm Pagan. In college I considered myself Christian though.
2006-09-28 10:37:05 · answer #8 · answered by Ana 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think my profession has had much affect at all on my religious beliefs, but my skeptical nature has impacted both.
2006-09-28 10:31:38 · answer #9 · answered by lenny 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I mentor new college students to help them adjust and I'm agnostic. My job has nothing to do with my religion.
2006-09-28 10:32:10 · answer #10 · answered by i luv teh fishes 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋