junction-guy,
I work at a community and technical college. One test we have students to take is this one:
http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm
It helps them understand where their personality strengths lie. I am an "ENFP"
We also administer some career related tests, but the school "subscribes" to them and you have to have an access number. I see an online test, though, that claims to be "free" -- you just have to register. You might want to take a look:
http://a.free-career-test.com
If you are going to take the test, you will need about a half hour. Also you have to click "no thanks" about a million times on advertising. But at the end, it gave me a pretty accurate description of what I already know to be my strengths and weaknesses in personality and career preferences.
I agree with others who have posted that you might be best served by staying within the same retirement system. I was able to go from working in public K-12 school to working in a community college while staying in the same retirement system. I am making more money and enjoy my job in the college much more than the public school setting. So take a look AROUND YOU before looking AWAY FROM YOU.
Also, some employers will pay for at least part of your educational cost if you are looking to move "up" in your current job area.
Experts say it is always best to be looking for another job while you are still employed. It is a conundrum that employers prefer hiring someone who is currently employed over someone who is not. Go figure -- but my husband found that out the hard way when he left a job BEFORE finding another one. His "job search" took 2 1/2 years and nearly bankrupted us (didn't help our marriage either, but we have recovered from that thankfully.)
Best wishes on your journey!!
NanaR
(I'm posting from Firefox, so if this comes out weird, sorry about that :-( )
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by Junction-Guy inwell i worked for many years in low paying jobs-fast food,motels, delivering pizzas.
i started working in a law enforcement field nearly 8 years ago, and have been there ever since.
i always was interested in law enforcement and fire/rescue when i lived in kentucky, so i finally entered the corrections field in 1999. it's a decent paying job with benefits galore, i have lots of sick time built up along with lots of vacation time.
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Education Brochure?
by NanaR ini finally downloaded the 2005 wt cd (thanks to link posted by vanilla mocha on another thread) from http://www.watchtower.cc .
for a while now, i have been wanting to find a copy of a publication that was issued in the early 1990s regarding education.. this publication (a brochure, i think) had the same title as a 1992 watchtower article that i found on the cd-rom - education and jehovah's witnesses.
however, my memory is that the brochure was more direct in actually encouraging witnesses to prepare themselves educationally for gainful employment (while i am sure it still had the required admonition to full-time service and supporting oneself in that endeavor).. "party line" was that pioneers needed to be able to earn a "living wage".
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Education Brochure?
by NanaR ini finally downloaded the 2005 wt cd (thanks to link posted by vanilla mocha on another thread) from http://www.watchtower.cc .
for a while now, i have been wanting to find a copy of a publication that was issued in the early 1990s regarding education.. this publication (a brochure, i think) had the same title as a 1992 watchtower article that i found on the cd-rom - education and jehovah's witnesses.
however, my memory is that the brochure was more direct in actually encouraging witnesses to prepare themselves educationally for gainful employment (while i am sure it still had the required admonition to full-time service and supporting oneself in that endeavor).. "party line" was that pioneers needed to be able to earn a "living wage".
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NanaR
I don't know why the entire link won't go up, but I'll try again:
Maybe that did it...
NanaR
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What state are you from?
by Junction-Guy inthis is for the us crowd, what state do you live in?
or from?----i live in tennessee, but from ohio and kentucky.
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NanaR
I'm from northeastern Kentucky (very close to both Ohio and WV). Never wanted to live anywhere else.
NanaR
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Education Brochure?
by NanaR ini finally downloaded the 2005 wt cd (thanks to link posted by vanilla mocha on another thread) from http://www.watchtower.cc .
for a while now, i have been wanting to find a copy of a publication that was issued in the early 1990s regarding education.. this publication (a brochure, i think) had the same title as a 1992 watchtower article that i found on the cd-rom - education and jehovah's witnesses.
however, my memory is that the brochure was more direct in actually encouraging witnesses to prepare themselves educationally for gainful employment (while i am sure it still had the required admonition to full-time service and supporting oneself in that endeavor).. "party line" was that pioneers needed to be able to earn a "living wage".
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NanaR
Hi JustaHuman,
I downloaded it from: http://www.watchtower.cc .
The file is in ISO format -- you have to have a program like the one the Crucial Criteria web site links to in order to extract it. I used a different program for extraction (free trial version available by download) -- http://www.magiciso.com/download.htm .
What I would recommend is to download the Magic ISO program first, then make a folder on your hard drive for the ISO file extraction (read on). Then download the ISO file and save it on your desktop. (It is a very large file, make sure you have enough space on your hard drive). When it is done saving, and you choose open, it should open in Magic ISO if you have downloaded that first (choose "try it" to open Magic ISO). Look on the right side of the window that Magic ISO opens. Using your mouse, highlight all the files in the box on the right side of the window. Right click on the highlighted files and choose "extract". Then brouse to the folder you created (above) for the file extraction and choose okay.
After the files are extracted, run the setup file and choose a "hard drive" installation.
That should do it. If you need extra help, pm me.
NanaR
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Education Brochure?
by NanaR ini finally downloaded the 2005 wt cd (thanks to link posted by vanilla mocha on another thread) from http://www.watchtower.cc .
for a while now, i have been wanting to find a copy of a publication that was issued in the early 1990s regarding education.. this publication (a brochure, i think) had the same title as a 1992 watchtower article that i found on the cd-rom - education and jehovah's witnesses.
however, my memory is that the brochure was more direct in actually encouraging witnesses to prepare themselves educationally for gainful employment (while i am sure it still had the required admonition to full-time service and supporting oneself in that endeavor).. "party line" was that pioneers needed to be able to earn a "living wage".
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Atlantis,
Thank you very much for the link. This was not, however, the document I was looking for.
A search on the WT cd for the term "postsecondary education" brings up only one "hit" -- a Watchtower article from November of 1992. This article appears to contain the information that I remember from the brochure (or tract, or whatever) published earlier that year.
All references to education beyond high school since then refer to "supplementary education". By 1994, this education was being "downplayed" (there was an Awake article in 1994 entitled "Put Education in its Place". The brochure you provided likewise "downplays" the need for supplementary education.
The current view is pretty much the same as the viewpoint when I was young -- Jehovah's day is NEAR -- no time to pursue worldly education.
And the newest book chides individuals who may feel that they "missed out" by not pursuing higher education that they should not set "materialistic" goals for their children.
I also noticed that the CD does not have the 1995 version of the brochure either, just a 2002 version. I didn't bother to look at that one.
Revisionist history -- the JWs have gotten SO skillful at it. They can manage to convince people that they don't remember what they really do remember, just by changing what they say about it.
Love this board!
NanaR
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THE BACK PEDDLING HAS ALREADY BEGUN......
by Mary inas i mentioned before in another thread, my dub aunt, along with several other witnesses, told me that they were specifically told that the governing body let it be known that tract work would trigger the beginning of the end by infuriating the other religions and somehow causing the governments to "turn on babylon the great".
this was supposed to start before the end of this year.
one thing i mentioned is that they were smart enough this time, not to put anything down in writing, but simply let it get around by "word of mouth".
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I wondered about comments on JWD about how the end was nearer than near until I started getting pressured by my JW family that the end was nearer than near
The special pioneer that came to my door with the tract wouldn't leave until I answered her as to whether I understood that the end is "upon us". I replied that I wasn't sure about that.
Funny thing, too. She took the tract with her (after I told her that someone had already left one in the door a week before).
So I guess no 2 per customer *hah*
Also, we had had NO visitors at our home for some time, then about the 1st of October I started finding literature in my door every single week (I'm not home very much *wink*).
So I believe the impetus was coming from above that "the end is near".
NanaR
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Education Brochure?
by NanaR ini finally downloaded the 2005 wt cd (thanks to link posted by vanilla mocha on another thread) from http://www.watchtower.cc .
for a while now, i have been wanting to find a copy of a publication that was issued in the early 1990s regarding education.. this publication (a brochure, i think) had the same title as a 1992 watchtower article that i found on the cd-rom - education and jehovah's witnesses.
however, my memory is that the brochure was more direct in actually encouraging witnesses to prepare themselves educationally for gainful employment (while i am sure it still had the required admonition to full-time service and supporting oneself in that endeavor).. "party line" was that pioneers needed to be able to earn a "living wage".
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NanaR
Hello all,
I finally downloaded the 2005 WT CD (thanks to link posted by Vanilla Mocha on another thread) from http://www.watchtower.cc . For a while now, I have been wanting to find a copy of a publication that was issued in the early 1990s regarding education.
This publication (a brochure, I think) had the same title as a 1992 Watchtower article that I found on the cd-rom - Education and Jehovah's Witnesses. However, my memory is that the brochure was more direct in actually encouraging Witnesses to prepare themselves educationally for gainful employment (while I am sure it still had the required admonition to full-time service and supporting oneself in that endeavor).
"Party line" was that pioneers needed to be able to earn a "living wage". "Scuttle butt" was that the Society needed computer and tech-competent Bethelites and had very few because, of course, postsecondary education had been virtually forbidden (in reality -- whether in print or not I'm not certain) up until that time.
What I remember very clearly was that I became exceedingly angry when this brochure came out, for the following reasons:
1) I was very resentful that my young opportunity to attend college had been nixed due to the WTS policy at that time (1970).
2) I was upset that my children now had permission to attend college, but no means to do so BECAUSE WE HAD NOT PREPARED FOR THIS due to the WTS policy up to that time.
Anyway, if anyone has a copy of the brochure I am mentioning (which DOES NOT appear on the CD-ROM although the Watchtower article of the same name does), could you let me know? If there is any way I could purchase a copy or a scanned copy, I would really like to have this on file.
BTW, my husband started college in 1995 and I started in 1996. We both got 2 year college degrees; I am still working on my bachelor's degree but being over 50 and working full-time makes it slow going.
Thanks in advance!
Ruth aka NanaR
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WT letter advises JWs not to edit Wikipedia articles on JW subjects
by cabasilas inapparently, the watchtower society has recently issued formal advice that individual witnesses should not edit jw articles on wikipedia.
i occasionally edit some of the jw articles on wikipedia.
a couple of days ago i noticed a comment from one of the most respected jw editors to another jw editor on his personal talk page mentioning a letter from the wt society about editing on wikipedia.
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NanaR
Apparently, the Watchtower Society has recently issued formal advice that individual Witnesses should not edit JW articles on Wikipedia.
cabasilas,
By barring approved JWs from editing the articles, they can tell the R & F that Wikipedia is an "apostate" resource, thereby thinking that said R & F will stop consulting it (and that they can tell people they meet in FS that the "enemies of JWs" put that information up). But of course we know that at least some of the R & F DO access apostate sites already, so their tactic is basically creating another apostate resource.
Also, it seems to me that at least some of these JW editors might have had legitimate questions and asked these questions of the WT hierarchy. A letter like this would serve as a warning that certain kinds of questions are unacceptable.
How sad that anyone would feel motivated to close down frank and open discussion!
But in view of the WT view of the internet, I'm surprised that this did not happen sooner.
NanaR
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Is there any literature that speaks of babies dying in "A"
by megsmomma inmy step dad and i spoke of this and he says they believe that since children aren't able to make their own choice yet, they will survive the big "a".
i know for a fact that jw"s talk about kids being destroyed because they would just grow up like their parents.
is there anything that the society has said about this.. i would appreciate if anyone knows where to look..
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NanaR
Get your CD-ROM download free here:
http://www.watchtower.cc/VanillaMocha,
Thank you so much for posting that link!
NanaR