But true vegetarians wouldn't work in a Butchers since they wouldn't agree with the killing or consuming of animals, any vegetarian that works in a Butchers can't be a true one in my eyes.
Personally I could never ever do a job I don't enjoy no matter how much money, it would impact on my life and would depress me, I had a job in retail before I escorted and I hated it and ended up leaving because I got depressed working all those long hours and being practically shat on for such shit pay. I'm sure there are women out there who can do jobs they don't enjoy and make it look as though they enjoy it but personally I couldn't and I'm amazed at others who can do it.
DW, vegetarianism or veganism concerns what somebody eats (and to some extent wears), not their personal beliefs or what they do for a living; some people just don't like meat. I know one vegan chef and I've worked in food retail with several vegetarians, including at one butchers; what you're talking about (and the part which relates to this) are people who can't or don't want to separate work from their personal feelings. As the old sayng goes, principles are great if you can afford them
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A lot of people (both clients and people in general) think it's black and white - either you do this job because you just love having sex with strangers and you're so horny all the time, or you hate it and are being irreversibly damaged by it. They don't realise there's a huge grey area, which I think most of us are in. I enjoy my job - I enjoy providing a service and seeing the client go away happy. I don't love it or hate it, I just like it and that's fine.
I'm with Nova. There's another thread somewhere where somebody posted that they don't think of work sex as 'sex', and I agree with that too - I don't do my job to get my rocks off and all the enjoyment is to do with the satisfaction of doing it well. Anybody who's doing anything full time for a living is going to have times where it's great, times where they would rather be doing anything else on earth and the rest of the time it's just completely mundane, everyday stuff. That's the nature of work.
Why people think we're any different is a mystery to me too, and whilst nodding politely is part of my job I've pointed out to a few punters (usually when it's assumed that if I'm busy or unavailable it's because I'm having sex with somebody else rather than at the cinema or doing my shopping, or whatever) that I'm as ordinary as anybody else.