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Did You Feel Pressured To Auxiliary or Regular Pioneer?
by minimus 36 Replies latest jw friends
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logansrun
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Athanasius
I was a regular pioneer for two years. That was when we were required to put in 100 hours a month. Hated every minute of it.
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minimus
Badger----What an experience! I have to say I feel bad for you! What stress and pressure to have been under. I hope you're doing whatever it is that YOU want to do!
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Badger
Min: Thanks...and I am, with a college degree, too...Everyone bacck home is now insanely jealous, but a few are proud.
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maxwell
I felt some pressure. After I was baptized, I did auxiliary a couple of summers as a teenager. I had said that I would become a full-time pioneer when I graduated, but somehow sensible thinking came over me and by the time I graduated high school, I figured I better make sure I can take care of myself financially first and I never did pioneer again after those early teenage summers. Never really thought about doing it much while in college. There was simply no time to do it between full-time school work and part-time job to keep up with expenses. After I graduated and got a nice 40 hour/wk job, I did feel pressured a few times in the 2 or 3 years before I left. They started putting those little schedules in the Kingdom Ministry showing how one could do it on within 2 or 3 days a week. And I knew one brother actually did it with evening witnessing and working 4 days a week. Combine that with the fact that my work hours were fairly flexible (For example I could easily and often did alter my schedule to work four 10-hour days), and I felt a little pressure and guilt that I was not at least auxiliary pioneering during the hyped months. Well I am happy that I removed that pressure.
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minimus
"Those little schedules" are designed to make you feel GUILTY!!!! You look at the KM and see everyone else jump on the hyped bandwagon so you feel like a jerk if everyone but you is doing the "right thing"......It's all a part of the JW mind-control.