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It'll often come down to how the person respects themselves in that occupation. I can respect jobs and workers for which I want no involvement, but it wouldn't necessarily bother me to be in a relationship with someone who was.
However, if they have a weak rationale, or make any excuses to live with it, I'd expect a crisis at some point. "If I didn't do it someone else would." *Alert!*
Someone who works as a bill collector, for instance. I know the job needs to be done, and I've had them on staff myself, but the methods and battles can take their toll. If someone has a handle on it, sticks to their ethics (compatible with my own), fine, but it's quite possible they'll have their own issues with it or with what attracted them to it and that will eventually spill into our relationship.
If it's something I have an actual distaste for, say lobbying for tobacco companies or televangelizing, something where their doing a good job means direct and measurable damage to others, and they're moving forward and not out of the business, then no, that would be a deal breaker. They're either on a different ethical plane from myself or they'll blow at some point.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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