Watchtower Careers
Would you like to have the most fulfilling career available on earth? Consider the great privilege of becoming one of Jehovah’s Witnesses. We have many titles and classifications* that you can aspire to as you work towards your salvation. For your convenience, we have listed these in order of superiority starting with the highest rank all the way down to what you are now… a worldly person. For more information, please bring this list to the Kingdom Hall nearest you and any elder will gladly show you where all of these titles may be found in your Bible as well as what they are.
1. Governing Body Member (anointed MALES only; directed by God)
2. Corporation President (various corporations worldwide, MALES ONLY)
3. Bethel Department Overseer (various departments; MALES ONLY)
4. Branch Overseer (MALES ONLY)
5. District Overseer (MALES ONLY)
6. Circuit Overseer (MALES ONLY)
7. Bethel Elder (MALES ONLY)
8. Missionary
9. Elder (MALES ONLY)
10. Special Pioneer
11. Bethelite
12. Regular Pioneer
13. Auxiliary Pioneer
14. Ministerial Servant (MALES only)
15. Baptized Publisher (at this level and above you can lose your family and friends if you sin or disagree with the Watchtower’s teachings)
16. Unbaptized Publisher
17. Study
18. Interested One
19. Revisit
20. Worldly person (formerly known as “Goat”)… this is your starting point.
*Note: all of these 20 theocratic classifications have a second designation depending on your level of “field service” these are
· Regular : member who consistently reports at least 15 minutes of preaching per month.
· Irregular : member who has not reported preaching hours in one of the last 3 months.
· Marked : member who continuously analyses Watchtower information first before accepting it.
· Inactive : member who has not reported preaching hours in 6 or more months.
· Dissassociated : member who has submitted a letter of resignation from the corporation. At this point, you drop back down to classification 20 (worldly person) and association with fellow members of the corporation will be kept to an absolute minimum.
· Disfellowshipped : member who speaks out against the corporation or engages in unethical or sinful behavior.