The DO said at the last one day assembly in October 2009 that pioneering is the way to find a job. You just have to leap into it and Jehovah will give you everything you need.
My husband and I have fought over this since the day we were married. I was stupid and married at 24 with my husband being 41 years old. He had quit a fairly good job to pioneer and lived on nothing. I was so in love and he told me I just needed to have faith. More faith. Well Jehovah did not provide. We hardly had money for gas to go out in service and we lived in the country. So I got work, I worked two to three jobs while my husband worked hardly at all because he was also the only elder.
I thought that Jehovah would someday pick up the slack, never happened. I was mortified to learn that an older brother who had a ton of money had been giving us $50.00 a month. I felt we should work for it.
On the other hand all the sister and we had 10 pioneers who had husbands who worked and supported them would cram into my car not give me a cent for gas.
One pioneer couple bought a brand new car and parked it a block from the hall refused to use it in service because they did not want to get door dings on it. The sisters were always getting hair cuts new cloths, and dish washers. On and on, it was blah, blah, blah, Jehovah provides for me.
Here I was working two jobs pioneering did not have even enough money for a cup of coffee, and I would sit there watching these woman pork down and hamburgers and cokes. Then they went to the elders because I fell asleep in service from being over tired.
My husband well he told me I just needed to keep my blinders on. Consider the who was talking and that Jehovah did provide me with the $50.00. That I just needed more faith and if I did not work the money would come from somewhere.
Crazy.
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