Five years of pioneering in my 'best years' (19-23)... 5 x 1000 x 5 $ (I don't want to be excessive ) = 25 000 $ I guess that is a nice car!
Prins Vaillant
How Much Time & $$$ Did You Waste on JW's?
by Black Man 28 Replies latest jw friends
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nobody told me
I gave up a $60,000 starting pay job when I graduated college, to pioneer, in 1984. The new world was just around the corner. I made $14,000 that year. Hey Watchtower, you sat on your ass in New York getting a free ride on people like me. Not anymore, and in the long run I believe that the word is getting out that you really are the same as the people you condemn, you can't hide from the truth anymore.
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smack
Not much, I was slack at everything.
Doin OK now tho
Steve
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Black Man
up..................................
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frenchbabyface
not a CENT to be honnest ...NEVER
BUT ... TIME not that much all together maybe a year -
As a kid I'd rather to be "whatever" than going to a meeting ... their choice then : late or not late ... I needed to dream ... and it was the only moment that the house was quiet and I could really think and doing whatever I wanted to ...
Door to door only once at 7 ... (I had already so many reasons to be rejected by EVERYONE at that time + I didn't like the way people was dispatched + I didn't understand why they send me with an old sick man - alcoolic : red face and nose (but very nice) who could almost not walk !!! with me at 7 - nothing I could do to help ! + We only had "slap doors on our faces" the whole morning + for finally having that stupid brother who dispatch the groups to laught at us and saying (to the nice man) that he should have stay at home* and it is normal that he have no result because ... he is stupid ... alcoolic ... got a red face ... bla bla bla - So I wondered why he didn't tell him before to stay at home ??? !!!) ... I MEAN THIS WAS TOO MUCH FOR A MORNING ... I've got the whole picture !!! NEVER AGAIN ...
* he "should have stay at home". that was the only good advice I heard this morning !!! And I just followed it ...
BUT on the other hand : I almost agree to lose my faithfull son at 16 because of blood issue ... witch is ANOTHER DEAL nothing to do with money. (I reacted but very late ... And when I'm thinking about that it's just "NO NAME")But the topic question make me thinking about my mother and I know that she would have a nicer life ... so much wastes
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Black Man
UP............
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freedom96
I spent the majority of my time as a witness, as a child. I have not been to a meeting since I was 27, and those last few years before that was minimal.
So time? I gave up my youth.
Money? I don't think I ever put more than 10 bucks into the contribution boxes, ever, total.
Did I lose out on college? Yes, but I have since learned that a college education, though it does help out in the job world, if one wants to make a lot of money, it is not needed. So, with my goals and everything going on in my life, I am not going to lose sleep over the past.
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jwbot
Lost my youth. That is more priceless than any amount of money.
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chachasmum
Much too much and i was in it for just seven years.
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Amazing
I don't know where to begin to place a value on my sacrificed time ... but I was not one to give a lot of money ... in 25 years I doubt I gave more than $500 ... it was something I held in reserve once I left the Catholic Church ... that is, never let a religion have or control my assets ... not even Jehovah's Witnesses.