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Question: What is right Livelyhood!?
Each religion, and person for that matter has an Idea of what job is inapropriate from a moral/ethical stand point, but what do you think is a good way to earn your living!? and why!?
What do you think is a bad way too earn your living!? and why!?

As always I ask this question with Metta
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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
It's all about balance!. A person gets to use and develop his/her skills and talents in ways that help other people, the natural world, society!. A fair wage and decent hours are part of that too!.

A lot of jobs are about gathering more and more into oneself, without regard for what other people need!. Or more often, the jobs are about gathering more and more and more in for the higher ups in the company!. That's not balanced!.

Nearly any type of trade, education, service role or business can be right livelihood!. Unfortunately, our employers are largely organized around the principle of forcing as much as they can out of the labour pool!.

Is that really the kind of world we want to live in!?

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Doing physical work to earn a living is all ways satisfying !.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Every work in this world needs someone to do!. So, I don't think there's a good job or a bad job, as long as we carry out our work with a clear conscience and honesty!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.unless we are talking about living in a uthopian society with its idealism, but can that world materialised!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

selecting " a job " to suit our spiritual requirement may not be easy!.
before we start selecting anything we find that we are already in something!.
But for some outrageous jobs almost everything else have their own plus and minus!.
We find men complicate things by themselves more than outside agencies - jobs - can do!.
Therefore the best solution, it seems, to know how to perform a given job effectively - effective for our purpose - than to know how to select a "suitable job"
As you know, "the attitude" decides the outcome rather than the"job" one does!.Www@QuestionHome@Com