I'm enjoying your comments, but one from Quotes caused me to laugh rather ruefully:
I have heard this reasoning before, and I'll bet there is a Quote somewhere to support it (any help, people?) Imagine: your average JW preparing his/her little door-to-door magazine offer, knowing that those 20 seconds will mean the difference between life and death to the householder(TM). Talk about your performance anxiety!
That last line, that's funny, and I can totally relate to the gist of it from the standpoint of a silicon valley high-tech professional and corporate "lifer"!
Incidentally, Quotes, your candor seems to come from the Harvard School of Hard Knocks. I've learned to live with performance anxiety myself, the emotional experience not just from working a territory on a Saturday morning but in working for silicon valley companies. Sometimes in these ivory corporate towers, I get the eerie sensation of what it's like working at Bethel, with hyper-social politics, pretending to zealously follow the corporate discipline mantra from the CEO, feigning loyalty as a "comrade" on "the team," eternally smiling. Let's not forget our melodic "Hello!" to every department comrade/member you pass in the corridors, although with one exception. I get paid a factorial of over 100 times a Bethelite's stipend, and I can go home to a house I own every day and on vacations/holidays, my own domestic little "paradise" to heal from the world and wounds inflicted from other non-worldly places on Tuesday/Thursday nights and Sunday mornings!
Derrick