I am a vegan working at a non vegan place what should I do?

Hello everyone I have been a vegan since October 2012 well I was vegetarian for about 3 weeks then decided to go all the way. I have been working at Chipotle mexican grill for almost 3 years I have days where I love my job others I hate it because of all the meat I am surrounded by and have to touch and smell on a daily basis. If you were me how would you feel and what would you do? When I have enough clients I am going to become a dog groomer because I love animals. I already went to school for it just need all the proper supplies and more dogs to work with.

I feel like I am being judged for being a vegan but working at a place that has meat is like a contradiction? I dont want to feel like this and some of the people I work with are so rude like if I bring cookies in some people wont eat them because they are healthy vegan crap. I honestly love all the new foods I have made since becoming vegan I would have never known about how good certain things taste like all the different tofus, persimmons, dates and so many other foods I have yet to try.

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Permalink Reply by Beata Ciupińska on February 14, 2013 at 3:58am

Hi Carolyn,

It would be very difficult for me to work in a place where meat is served to customers. I guess I would look for something else if I were you.

I work for a freight forwarding company and at the moment I am thinking about changing my job because of some of the customers like GSK and Astra Zenica who our company do business with. I completaly do not agree with their animal testing involvement. This is the reason why I think it's time for me to look for another job even I'm not directly working for those companies, I'm only supporting logistic computer application used by our company.

Permalink Reply by Misty Michelle Elliott on February 16, 2013 at 8:22pm