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What do you consider to be shameful employment?

inspired by this question http://answermug.com/forums/topic/25031/is-being-a-secret-shopper-shameful-employment

My half brother started up his own internet business once.  In his case internet business was a euphemism for being a spammer.  My parents were ashamed to tell people what he really did for a living.

Posted - March 9, 2017
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  • 34276
    Nothing as long as it is legal and no one has to take their clothes off. 

    Your parents should have just told people your brother was in advertising.
      March 9, 2017 8:01 PM MST
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  • 5451
    That's what they did tell people.  His advertising was really porn spam.  He got a hold of dad's contact list and porn spammed everybody dad knew.
      March 9, 2017 8:06 PM MST
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  • 7939
    That's called "networking." ;)
      March 9, 2017 8:37 PM MST
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  • 5451
    He was great at networking.  He sent porn spam to everyone dad knew at church.
      March 9, 2017 8:48 PM MST
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  • 5451
    I don't think there's any shame in employment as long as it doesn't hurt anybody.
      March 9, 2017 8:35 PM MST
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  • Anything that exploits the weakness or the gullibility of another.
    That can range from running a pyramid scheme to TV evangelism.
      March 9, 2017 8:32 PM MST
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  • 5451
    My husband still has the vitamin and health supplements he bought from a pyramid scheme.  Pyramid schemes weren't for him because he didn't know anybody who he could talk into signing up for it.  He's just not a salesperson.  He makes good money now doing a side business but it took a lot of trial and failure to get there.
      March 9, 2017 8:45 PM MST
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  • Uummm...
     you left out politicians ....
      March 9, 2017 9:18 PM MST
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  • No I didn't. They're included in the mix of "exploiting weakness an gullibility". There wasn't space enough to list all the exploiters. We'd have cut down a virtual rain forest to get enough bytes to list them all.
      March 9, 2017 9:30 PM MST
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  • Good point Didge ... i do apologise!
      March 9, 2017 9:32 PM MST
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  • I had a great answer but it disappeared  as i thought more about it ..
    Instead this ... i think the answer varies with how hungry you are  ... and if you have kids it varies as the square of how hungry they are
      March 9, 2017 9:11 PM MST
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  • That is a very relevant observation, and a compelling ethical question.
      March 10, 2017 1:30 AM MST
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  • I have three cats ... It's not a large leap  :)
      March 10, 2017 2:03 AM MST
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  • Yes, I would agree with that... <3
      March 10, 2017 2:05 AM MST
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  • 2960
    All of it.
      March 9, 2017 9:13 PM MST
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  • Intriguing comment, Mr. Bromide...would you be willing to expand on that, develop the idea a bit?
      March 10, 2017 1:27 AM MST
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  • 3523
    These days I think investment bankers are one of the worst.  They nearly brought down the greatest economy the world has ever seen.  In my personal experience, they (and their lawyers) overcharged, mismanaged, and skimmed off of my trust from my grandfather to the point that it was virtually worthless by the time I was due to inherit it.
      March 9, 2017 9:49 PM MST
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  • Dear Livvie,
    I do actually think that one of our 'jobs' in life is to develop our natural sense of integrity, and then try to live by that. Tempered, however, by the contingencies Ozgirl mentions (like hunger in ourselves and our children), in which case we sometimes just have to 'hunker down' until the family is grown.

    And this integrity is irregardless of laws; now age 72 for example, I see first-hand the exploitation of old folks for profit, for example, all (or usually) perfectly legal...the henchpeople carrying that out are in shameful employment.
      March 10, 2017 1:47 AM MST
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  • Hired Hitman
      March 10, 2017 9:00 AM MST
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