WIY: I can’t answer for him because I don’t know his actual outlook. But there is nothing anti-Halachah about shaving during Sefirah to help keep a job. (Then again, if a person doesn’t know that it’s actually Muttar and does it anyway then it might be anti-Halachah. One of the Tannaim, maybe R’ Akiva, would cry for people like that.) And people with beards making money isn’t a proof of anything. A person is judged by his situation. If he has a job and shaving would endanger it, then it is a Davar Ha’aveid to shave and therefore it’s Muttar. Plain and simple.
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