Life is changing for me: no pioneering, got a job!

by Skepsis 63 Replies latest jw friends

  • DesirousOfChange
    DesirousOfChange

    My friend, while I'm not suggesting that you continue wasting your life on the JW squirrel cage, I will remind you that you don't have to be hadty to do any of this. You do not have to quit everything so rapidly that it sends off alarm bells.

    You have your degree so go put it to use in building a career and increasing your earning potential. Also concentrate on building a new network of friends outside the JW network. You will find that you were "new life" all eventually crowd out the old Cult lifestyle.

    The greatest revenge is living a happy and successful life!

  • tiki
    tiki

    Use your head. You have a brain for a reason. As someone who has been there and is now old...get your career..establish you life and live it. There is no life or future in that religion..just self deprecating and misery and no normal human progression. Use your head.

  • OnTheWayOut
    OnTheWayOut

    Hey, great that you have a career-oriented future. Congratulations on leaving pioneering.

    If it were me where you are now, I would tell the brothers that so many well-intentioned people have said such negative things about my resigning that I insist that I can no longer be an MS....then refuse to remain no matter what they say.

  • pepperheart
    pepperheart

    skepis the GB dont think the end is near, why would they have people spending millions of hours building the new bethel when they could have been on FS.They could have had non jws building the new bethel and let the jws do field service BUT they did not in 20 or 30 years you will be so glad you have done in getting on with your life.

  • nowwhat?
    nowwhat?

    Next step is to remove the FOG fear obligation and guilt. Once that is removed your quality of life will improve greatly!

  • smiddy
    smiddy

    Welcome to the board Skepsis your on the road to a new life ,congragulations on having a career oriented future mapped out before you, instead of wasting your life pioneering for a lost cause.

  • LisaRose
    LisaRose

    Now that you are not pioneering you can use the time to think about what you want in your life. Don't let anyone pressure you. They are slaves to an organization who wasted their life, now they want you to waste your life slaving for an organization, because that will validate their choices. It's your life after all, you will have to live with the choices you make.

    I was told all these things as well, I would never have time for a career in this system, the end is so close, etc. I am old now, so they were wrong, just like the brothers are wrong to tell you to keep pioneering.

    When you really are sure what you want, then just walk away, they only have the power you give them. In the meantime, start making new friends.

  • tepidpoultry
    tepidpoultry

    I like LisaRose's advice especially the part about making new friends

    The most successful exiters do

    :0)

  • Skepsis
    Skepsis

    Thanks for your messages! I really appreciate all the advices you are giving to me as I feel now the great responsibility of having to take my own decisitions for the first time without the 'guide and advice' of the Org.

    First thing to do is to start a career. As @scratchme1010 said, I feel a bit lost in this area. Most of my colleagues at the office I'm working with have more experience and I'm quite overwhelmed by this. But, I have to recognise they're not the bad people the Org says and they're giving advice on what to do regarding my own career.

    My goal is to fade. Don't know how exactly I will do having family, friends and all my life inside the WT. I'm serving in a foreign-language congregation and speaking with the elders I told them I would need to move during this year to another congregation in the area. I'm planning to move to a big local congregation in another area where I could go unnoticed. Having no relatives or personal friends there would make my fade easier or at least give me the chance to lose meetings as now it's almost impossible for me being in a congregation with less than 30 publishers. But I said, I haven't taken a final decisition yet except to focus on my own life.

    My JW ex-girlfriend got in contact with me last week. We broke because I started having doubts about the Org and she was a hardliner zealous pioneer. She wanted to move where the need is greater and I understood I couldn't live a lie so the relationship had no future. She messaged me because she's deppresed and tired and thinking about stepping down as pioneer. Nevetheless, she still believes 100% in the Org. I still love her but I don't want to live a lie for the rest of my life.

    I want to start a new life from scratch. The meetings are tedious and now I'm going because I feel the pressure to go. I think stepping down as pioneer has been a great step, don't know exactly what I'll do after this although meetings like the WT study of this weekend are hard to stomach.

  • AllTimeJeff
    AllTimeJeff

    Congrats on the college degree!

    Just another perspective, understand that there is no "one way" that pioneers stop pioneering, servants and elders stop "serving". The personality of each congregation and their elders, along with the current CO affects those events. I always advise to be cautious as you fade away, especially if your plan isn't to blow up the bridge.

    I personally like the advice of LisaRose. I think as you get older you'll regret the times you don't fully listen to that voice inside yourself. In fact, you'll probably find that like an underused muscle, once you start getting to know you, you'll get stronger.Get to know yourself. That won't happen EVER inside a KH or talking with other JW's, because part of the whole JW indoctrination is to take away your identity. That's why everyone is "brother" and "sister". Because your name represents YOU, and that doesn't jive very well with a cult....

    Get some friends too. I wish I had done that when I left. Best wishes!

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