Did Being One Of Jehovah’s Witnesses Kill Your Drive?

by The wanderer 28 Replies latest jw friends

  • jaguarbass
    jaguarbass

    Now that the life of being a Jehovah’s Witness is over with in your life, how
    are you driven or motivated to do the things you want to get out of life?

    Respectfully,

    The Wanderer

    I've always been upset and bitter that by being a witnoid I didnt get a college education and after I left the organizatin my life became to compllicated and difficult to get one. I've always felt like a 2nd class citizens hanging out with the flunkies and dopers of life who chose not to apply themself and just float.

    I fell for the bibles line to everything there is a season. And my season to get an education was before I got married and had a child.

    I know some people have been able to overcome those obstacles. But I wasnt, so thats my misery.

    My life hasnt been a total failure but when I have to spend a day like today working 16 and 3/4 hours straight in a jail because, thats the best job I can get without a degree, I'm a little pissed at the watertower.

    And I have to work it or they will fire me. Not having a degree sucks. Thank you watertower.

    I get to come home sleep for 4 hours and go back and work 8 hours again.

    So I dont have any life or energy to further my education. Plus I'm 54 years old, I only have 7 more years till I get social security and retire on a paupers pension.

    Or put it another way at 54 even with a degree, I am not going to make a lot of money.

    Sorry to be so negative but 16 and 3/4 hours of guarding prisoners making sure they dont escape in a hospital with no bars and only my wits handcuffs and shakles pushes me over my limit.

    They always get themselves into a position of having to get the restraints off because they crap their pants and they get all contorted in it. And I got to cut their clothes off that are full of pxss and shxt in the emergency room after they have made me work 15 hours straight.

    Sorry for complaining Watertower. Maybe I should take a job at 7/11 and get shot for peanuts.

  • OUTLAW
    OUTLAW

    Wanderer..DubKids don`t know what the "World of Education" holds for them..They are purposely kept"Socialy Retarted".....When DubKids figure it out.You can probably find them on "JWD".....WBT$,your "Sorry Ass" is a "Multi-National Target!".....Everything in life is earned!..WBT$..Enjoy what you have earned!!...OUTLAW

  • AlmostAtheist
    AlmostAtheist

    Perhaps it did. Thank you for this, I'll have to think about it now.

    I am an extremely UNdriven person, and it could easily be because of the Armageddon's-tomorrow-anyway thinking.

    Hmm.....

    Dave

  • nvrgnbk
    nvrgnbk
    When DubKids figure it out.You can probably find them on "JWD".....

    Here's one checking in OUTLAW. With all the love and respect they deserve I say, "Get bent life-sucking Watchtower Cult!"

  • bigdreaux
    bigdreaux

    haha, i thought this was a golf thread. yeah, i was so tense i could never hit a ball past 200 yards without slicing.

  • SnakesInTheTower
    SnakesInTheTower

    Wanderer:

    Did Being One Of Jehovah’s Witnesses Kill Your Drive?

    yep, but thankfully before I started my fade I got:

    (1) a job I can choose to work as much/little as I want and make a boatload of money. ($40/hr)...slow week this week, next week will be better.... but still gotta pay bills/debt, so I have plenty of drive and lots more time to work if I want...

    (2) I was driven enough to go back to college to get my 2 year degree while still serving as an elder, thus setting a much better example for the DubKids.. Why, one girl even moved away from home (with her parents blessing and my encouragement on shepherding calls...which I went on by myself...so as to give real world advice not BorgBrainwashing) to go to a 4-year university ---- GASP!!!!! (maybe that's why the deleted me???)

    (3) being a dub did not kill my sex drive...now I just gotta find a good outlet

    (4) I like all my free time......no FS...very few meetings, no "personal study" (tm), ahhhhh....I'm driven to enjoy it......thanks for the topic Wanderer....

    SnakesInTheTower (of the DRIVEN Sheep Class)

  • Mysterious
    Mysterious

    I've always been extremely driven despite being raised a JW. I think one of the only things in life I wasn't driven about was the hampster wheel of field service and meetings.

  • compound complex
    compound complex

    Greetings and Salutations, Wanderer -

    Though I just now saw your post, I was thinking on this last night on my walk. I went on a walk just to get my mind off what Jag and LHG referred to - getting older, more tired and poorer. Opportunities haven't totally evaporated, but so long saying "Jehovah will provide" [which I have never doubted] has made it hard for me to pursue financial improvement. I've said before that I'm glad to know of Ray Franz's and Ed Dunlap's foray into the work force in older age. Talents and skills are great, but old-fashioned manual labor is what lies ahead for me for many more years. All efforts to work smart have failed. I'm not envious of the well-off; I'm merely puzzled why nothing seems to work - except me!

    The poor will be rich in faith? I'll never cease thanking our Heavenly Father for His goodness, nor will I ever get all those Scriptures out of my head re: money and its limitations, yet - I am still bewildered. Wondering why things are as they are.

    Well, no more time to think - back to work!

    Thanx for thinking my thoughts....

    CoCo

  • zagor
    zagor

    Only thing WTBS managed to do is to delay what I wanted to do but I don't think they killed anything in me, I don't think they have that much power. Not over a young and driven person anyway. So no they didn't.

  • nvrgnbk
    nvrgnbk
    haha, i thought this was a golf thread. yeah, i was so tense i could never hit a ball past 200 yards without slicing.

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