Why didn't you?
Because i had faith in the good news that we preached. At the time I was also living at home and had been raised as a witness. My parents would not have been in favour of my further education which would have shown a lack of faith in the nearness of the end as, those i have been raised to view as, Christ's brothers were informing us was the case. My salvation, i believed, depended on doing good to Christ's brothers and the primary way i understood was assisting them in the life saving work of preaching the good news.
I think it is naive to say that an organization was responsible for the way your life turned out.
I think in explaining my choice and the reasons why I made the decisions I made is not a case of not taking responsibiity for them. I would be much more careful now in paying attention to anything from Jehovah's Witnesses and making decisions based on the information (spiritual food) recieved.
the word coercion springs to mind when i think of how i felt when I was a young witness. although i felt that it was the best way to pioneer and serve Jehovah i also felt that my doing so was important for me to survive Armageddon and although I have faith in God I now recognise that we are all different and we don't need to feel guilty for not being a pioneer/ministerial servant/elder or wanting to be one.