**raises hand**
Can almost guarantee pioneering will ensure you live well below the poverty in housing that ... let's say don't quite meet certain standards.
The thing is, when you grow up in a cult, your mind is trained to take anything as a blessing or sign that Jehovah provides. Even finding edible food in the street or in a bin can be viewed as such.
Unfortunately when I was a kid, this was my role model and what I always dreamt of experiencing when I got older :
*** yb88 p. 86 Ireland ***
JEHOVAH PROVIDES
Billy Holland came into the truth in 1926 after reading The Divine Plan of the Ages. Like so many colporteurs, he relied greatly on Jehovah’s promise that his servants would never be “left entirely.”—Ps. 37:25; Matt. 6:28-34.
Brother Holland explained: “Sometimes I went without breakfast; sometimes I had a few slices of bread without butter. I remember one time when I was out in the countryside in County Down. After spending some time in the ministry, I went down a little lane and put my bicycle alongside the hedge. I sat down and was eating my dry bread and listening to the birds singing. Then I looked more closely at the hedge and saw some lovely blackberries. I picked some and put them between my slices of bread. It was just like blackberry jam—I really enjoyed it!”
He had the same spirit when funds ran low. “My shoes were wearing out and my feet would get wet,” he recalls. “Then one sunny day as I was walking along a country road, it got very warm, and the tar on the road began to melt. The tar filled the holes in the soles of my shoes. So I got my shoes ‘mended.’” And that was without cost!
Needless to say my dream came true, many times over...and at the time I thought it was wonderful. Now when I tell my therapist about it, she just hangs her head in disbelief.