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Kepha_15
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My wife, bless her heart, has had quite a rough go of things in the last several years. She has chronic illness (several, actually), which has caused her to suffer quite a bit. On top of this, for the past five or six years, she’s put up with a job (in medical marketing) in which she is habitually mistreated and underpaid. Recently, her employment situation is growing worse, and she fears (with good reason) she may lose her job soon. She’s applied elsewhere, and even had several interviews, that ultimately have gone nowhere.
One of her family members, a chiropractor, has graciously offered her a job to work for her, promoting her chiropractic practice and a few of her colleagues. The job would come at a pay increase, flexible schedule (which is important, considering her own medical issues) and work-from-home options.
So it breaks my heart to even ask this, given how much she needs this right now. I know that the Church’s stand on chiropractic itself is somewhat neutral – but I also know that some chiropractic offices are fraught with New Age practices and potentially occult beliefs. I don’t believe her family member (the chiropractor) practices much of this, but given the nature of the job, it’s likely she will come into contact with other chiropractors who do (and whose practices she may be asked in some fashion to help).
Complicating matters, the nature of this “involvement” could vary. Say, for instance, that a chiropractor doesn’t personally practice New Age methods, but in the waiting room may be a chiropractic magazine that promotes it. Or, say she belongs to a chiropractic association that promotes or tolerates it.
I guess what I’m struggling with is, does my wife’s potential involvement (especially as a marketer, essentially an “apologist” for the chiropractic field) raise cause for concerns? And if so, to what level? And does the fact that this particular chiropractor seems to avoid New Age practices matter, especially if her peers don’t seem to have issue with it?
Really struggling with this one. Thanks for any advice.
One of her family members, a chiropractor, has graciously offered her a job to work for her, promoting her chiropractic practice and a few of her colleagues. The job would come at a pay increase, flexible schedule (which is important, considering her own medical issues) and work-from-home options.
So it breaks my heart to even ask this, given how much she needs this right now. I know that the Church’s stand on chiropractic itself is somewhat neutral – but I also know that some chiropractic offices are fraught with New Age practices and potentially occult beliefs. I don’t believe her family member (the chiropractor) practices much of this, but given the nature of the job, it’s likely she will come into contact with other chiropractors who do (and whose practices she may be asked in some fashion to help).
Complicating matters, the nature of this “involvement” could vary. Say, for instance, that a chiropractor doesn’t personally practice New Age methods, but in the waiting room may be a chiropractic magazine that promotes it. Or, say she belongs to a chiropractic association that promotes or tolerates it.
I guess what I’m struggling with is, does my wife’s potential involvement (especially as a marketer, essentially an “apologist” for the chiropractic field) raise cause for concerns? And if so, to what level? And does the fact that this particular chiropractor seems to avoid New Age practices matter, especially if her peers don’t seem to have issue with it?
Really struggling with this one. Thanks for any advice.