Most anything anyone does, I suppose. Being a Scientologist doesn't forcibly prevent someone from being a doctor... doctors can practice medicine without ever prescribing psychotropic drugs. What I'm sure most would avoid is a career in pharmaceuticals and psychiatry.
Interestingly, many Scientologists base their distaste for psychiatry and psychiatric drugs on the misrepresentations and shocking but overblown horror stories provided to them by their prophet, L. Ron Hubbard. What's interesting is that Hubbard, though being a very outspoken critic of psychiatric drugs, was discovered upon his death to have the anti-anxiety drug hydroxyzine (Vistaril) present in his body, which several of his assistants would later attest was only one of many psychiatric & pain medications he had ingested over the years. (visit this link to read about the uses of hydoxyzine: http://www.drugs.com/mtm/v/vistaril.html )
Come to think of it, a great career for Scientologists to have is one in acting. Actors are paid very handsomely and can therefore afford to pay the exorbitantly high prices that the "church" will charge one for "advancement".
2006-12-06 16:57:29
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answered by Anonymous
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Yo Dude. Perhaps you are mistaken. Scientologists do believe it medicine to treat physical conditions.
Scientology do not believe in the products produced by psychiatry, such as anti-depressants. Psychiatry takes a view that all people are bodies and that upsets, problems, etc. can be solved but taking a pill. However, these pills then cause violence, dumbness or other physical side-effects. The problem with psychiatry then is that it doesn't work. It is not based on true workable axioms.
I know doctors that are Scientologists. I don't know any Scientologists that are psychiatrists though.
There is nothing in Scientology that says what job you can have or not. You can be a waitress, a business man, a delivery man, a doctor, a fireman, an actor, a hairdresser, a pilot -- it doesn't matter.
2006-12-10 06:09:37
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answered by HeyNowBrownCow 2
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This is false information about Scientology not "believing" in medical treatment when necessary.
I personally have 2 Scientologist friends who are medical Dr's and also am aquainted with several more.
I am a Scientologist (for the past 34 years) and have and use medical DR when needed.
I don't know where this false idea comes from. Could be a confusion with certain Christian religions like Christian Science who I think have this particular restriction.
As for jobs. Scientologist work in the entire spectrum of employment, though they usually avoid areas that provide Gambling or excessive alcohol consumption.
There are many Scientologists who have become successful professionals in their fields. Particularly the creative arts.
2006-12-07 12:02:29
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answered by thetaalways 6
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Tom Cruise and John Travolta have both paid the price to be enlightened in the secrets of Scientology....to get the secrets it costs a small fortune.
So, acting is a good job for a Scientologist.
2006-12-07 00:58:33
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answered by chuck 3
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I only know of rich actors being sociologists. Good question, I cant wait to see other answers.
2006-12-07 01:02:23
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answered by booh 3
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What are you talking about. Scientologist believe in Medicine. They just don't like Psychiatry.
THIS IS SCIENTOLOGY
1. What is true for you is what you yourself observe to be true.
2. Man is his spirit not his mind or his body.
3. The spirit creates his own mind. Please, do not confuse the mind with the brain that is a physical thing. The mind is composed of mental image pictures as explained in Dianetics. These pictures serve the spirit to give him knowledge and experience. These pictures are composed of energy. The energy in the picture can affect the spirit. You can feel better by remembering something that you like or angry by remembering something else. These emotions are actually energy waves emanated by the picture. You can actually feel pain by remembering a pain memory. Sometimes these pictures are accompanied by ideas or considerations. Lets suppose that you father beat you mom up in front of you. Your father was the dominating figure so you might conclude that you have to act like your father in some situations. This is what we call on Scientology an aberration (a conclusion that is imposed to you by a mental picture). This picture is what we call a engram (a pain memory that affects your judgment and free will).
4. You can discharge the energy in these pictures through communication. This is Dianetics Auditing and is the oldest of hundreds of Scientology techniques used to improve the individual.
5. The Spirit creates his own emotions. Are you happy? Are you sad? Are you depress? Maybe you think that something external of you is creating your emotions. Maybe you believe that you are sad because you had a bad day or maybe you believe that you are happy because you had a great day. And this might be true. But who made the decision that you had a good or bad day? You did. You decided if life was good or bad, and adjusted your emotions to respond to your own consideration. You created your own emotion.
Some people are born with everything they want and are still unhappy. And others are born into humble means and are happy. What's the difference? The only real difference is each person's ideas and considerations.
Scientology uses hundreds of processes in order to help a person get a better understanding and a better outlook in life by using his own observations.
6. Scientology Ethics. Ethical people take full responsibility for their actions. Un-ethical people blame others for their actions. "Wrong doings" diminish and deteriorate the freedom of the spirit because the need to justify the "wrong doing". So the spirit is enslaved into repeating the "wrong doing" in order to justify the original "wrong doing". The road to freedom lies within taking full responsibility for your personal condition and actions, past, present and future. Scientology provides the tools to help the person able to be fully responsible over his life thus rehabilitating his ability to be good and self determined.
Also Scientologist base their conduct on a non-denominational code of conduct. http://twth.org/eb/?id=16664j
7. Scientology and God. Scientology acknowledges the supreme being and promotes the individual search for closeness to God trough religion.
8. Scientology vs Psychiatry. Psychiatry believes that self awareness, feelings, love and faith is merely cellular activity. Basically they think that you are your brain and you are not in charge of your behavior but your cells are.This is a totally materialistic point of view that denies the spirit and God. Psychiatrist is a pseudo science because it is based in principles that are false. Psychiatry have never proven that any "mental illnesses" (like they call it) has any connection with a physical illness. Any Neurologist will tell you there are no medical test to identify a "mental illness". All Psychiatrists base their diagnosis on opinion and opinion alone.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3895596783332855545&q=Psychiatry+is+fraude&hl=enhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8443414209115892468&q=scientology&hl=en
http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?p=cchr&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&b=1&oid=12085d1e6c58d04e&rurl=video.yahoo.com&vdone=http%3A%2F%2Fvideo.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fvideo%3Fp%3Dcchr%26toggle%3D1%26cop%3Dmss%26ei%3DUTF-8
Happiness, exhilaration, depression and psychosis are states of mind, not diseases. All what you have to do to stop being depress is change your state of mind. How you do that? By changing your ideas and considerations. Scientology provides the tools to achieve a better state of mind in accordance with your own point of view.
Also Psychiatrist excuse the most horrendous crimes as mental illnesses. This is actually creates a sense of irresponsibility in society because it tells people that they are not responsible for their actions. Second they promote that drugs are the answer for your problems. This message promotes the use of drugs to find release from life and creates the current drug addiction problem in society. Drugs will only give you temporary false release but will never solve the source of your problems.And actually drugs will keep you away from finding a true spiritual release.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4437051883726295326&q=psychiatry&hl=en
Note: Scientology doesn't have anything against Psychology or Neurology. Also the mere awareness that you are a spiritual being and not a body makes you better person.
9. Scientology is a force for good in society. Scientologist fights Psychiatry, the pharmaceutical companies, criminality, http://www.criminon.org and drug addiction. http://www.narconon.org Also Scientology fought and won against the FDA and the IRS. And Scientologist initiated the social reform group "Youth for Human Rights" http://www.youthforhumanrights.org and the movement "Say no to drugs and yes to life". http://www.notodrugs-yestolife.org
Scientologist are some of the more intelligent, able and successful people in this planet. Including Jenna Elfman, Kelly Preston, John Travolta, Priscilla Presley, Sofia Milos and Leah Remini. Even Danny Masterson from the that's That '70s Show is a Scientologist.
10. Scientology and aliens. The story of Xenu is just a fable like the story of "Jonah in the Whale" in the bible. Fables are not intended to be taken seriously. The story of Xenu doesn't have any significance on Scientology beliefs.
11. People think that they know everything there is to know about life. And when they see Scientology they jump to conclusions when in reality they don't have a clue what are they talking about. The reality is that man attacks what he can't understand.
Anti-Scientology propaganda is just that, propaganda. It is false, bias and untrue. If you wanna know about the lies in this propaganda machine see my blog: http://www.myspace.com/129727315
References
http://www.chaplaincare.navy.mil/Scientology.htm
http://www.religioustolerance.org/scientol.htm
http://www.beliefnet.com/sem/scientology-religion.asp?source=YAHSCT&campaign=096&medium=PPC&nopop=1&WT.mc_id=YAHSCT&WT.srch=1
2006-12-07 01:35:15
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answered by Anonymous
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selling scientology vitamin regimines
2006-12-07 01:07:45
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answered by Labatt113 4
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same jobs as everybody else, they just do not pay you for them.
2006-12-07 00:58:11
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answered by Anonymous
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actors
2006-12-07 00:55:09
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answered by Anonymous
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