Jehovah provides Javier a part-time job

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  LongHairGal

  HOSER:

  Also: In my case, years ago there was nobody in the congregation at the time with a business who suggested to me that I work for them. I want to stress again that this near-poverty lifestyle was being pushed on younger people there.

  I would have been expected to do cleaning on my own. Just to show you how I seriously tried to see if this could work for me: I once cleaned a house with an older sister.. Well, after how long it took and all the physical labor, I said forget it. (ALSO, this Witness woman was MARRIED with a husband paying major bills and she did a cleaning job for extra money! To be perfectly clear, she was not doing this to support herself!)

  After careful consideration, I realized I would have to be OUT of my mind to quit a good job (with benefits) to do this.. I had the confidence (maybe because of my non-Witness upbringing) to not care what critical or jealous people with issues about women thought about me.. I also was not swayed by a desire to be ‘liked’ or invited to special dinners like some other young people there. (What a mistake on their part and this isn’t paying for their retirement today!)

  Most of the older JW busybodies went to their graves after living a cushy life.. Good thing I never listened to these sons-of-bitches because where the hell would I be today?? I never lost sight of the fact I had to look out for myself and I am grateful today that I did!!
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  RULES & REGULATIONS

  Yes, that’s correct that brothers with businesses like to employ other Witnesses. Sadly, I have heard in some cases they underpay them or try to get away with other things!

  When I quit my job( due to stress and not enough hours) while newly married, an elder and a ministerial servant from my congregation hired me to work for them as a landscaper. I worked 3 days a week for the elder and 2 days a week for the ministerial servant. They both had high paying customers located in exclusive suburbs. They billed out monthly and had to wait for their payments to arrive.

  Since they had to wait for payments from their slow paying customers, they made me wait 2-3 weeks for my money. Never was I paid on time. I told both of them about the Bible verse: New King James Version

  For the Scripture says, “You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain,” and, “The laborer is worthy of his wages.”

  I finished the year and quit. I started my own landscaping company.
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  LV101

  Longy - I was not member in 1975 - not ever considered a "member" per rules/regs. but I recall all the 1975 hype from a friend who nixed our Baptist church and a family member who was being brainwashed around that time - surreal. Decades later I started reading the mags and lost it - me mind! Unreal -- I have friends/family that have told me for years I'm a hard sell and yet became a lamb off to the slaughter. Not making excuses for my mental slippage (oh my) but on the old H20/Hourglass site ? were psychological articles attributing the persuasion/mind control of the publishing cos. journals - WT/Awake. They indicated it's main tool. Most likely posted here on this site. Couple gals on my delivery of the mags became addicted within few mos. They eagerly waited for them and asked for referral when I stopped - seriously!

  I never lock stepped w/the club nor did I fit in w/the cliques although told one must stay in that arena - quite a club! Never happenin' - had my own social life, way to busy.

  We're the vamoosed club!
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  LongHairGal

  JOEY JOJO:

  I cannot imagine that many of those hard-core pioneers of the 1980s are still full-time pioneering today in 2025.

  I remember those people my age group then who criticized me for working full-time! They lived on the edge with part time jobs, etc..because they were expecting the End at any minute.. Certainly they would have been forced off the pioneer list over the years because of pressing expenses of living in this world.

  Examples I heard of were couples who needed medical coverage desperately and so one or both needed a ‘regular’ job that provided the needed benefits.. What people fail to mention is that young people might get away with having no medical coverage for a time (unwise as this may be) because they are young and relatively healthy.. So, Time and aging bodies forces people to deal with reality!

  Even back when I was a ‘believer’ I always felt the only people who should be pioneering were retirees or kids on summer vacation. Again, I’m Glad today I kept that job and didn’t follow the crowd in the Kingdom Hall.