i know that this may be impossible and will surely get me a judicial comittee but i'm tired of keeping mum about how i feel.
so, i'm going to e-mail my two friends (two women under 35 who both got baptised within the last five years and one married a brother this year.they're both pioneers) and tell them what's bothering me and ttatt.. i'm going to do it tomorrow night.
i have some points already but i may have left out some.
If they are you're closest friends, wouldn't you rather go out with them each seperately to do something fun together that you know they like but never do because they're pio***s and then bring things up in conversation.
Don't you think they deserve better from you than just an email?
And DarioKehl is spot on - never ever supply an evidence (e.g. emails) that can be used against you.
i had started a topic like this a few months ago but i thought it might be usefull to ask you again.
i really need advise from persons who live in the following countries: usa, canada, uk.
australia.
It's really good you're checking out your options now. There's no reason you why you shouldn't find success in what you finally choose. Remember too, your choices will evolve and develop as you pursue your education and more doors open to you.
Here are a few ideas to check further :
As others have said, look into getting scholarships. Several scholarships on offer for international students are for students coming from specific countries or regions. It's quite probable your country is included. You have to see. Also check if you can cumulate scholarships to see you through all your academic studies (Bachelor, Master, PhD - depending how far you want to go), if not, at which level of study it would be more advantageous to start studying abroad.
Another thing to look into are exchange programs. If you are a student in a university in your home country (or a neighboring one) you should be able to apply to study for up to a year in a foreign country. If accepted, you only pay the tuition fees for the university in your home country, not the university abroad. (You would only have living expenses to pay and could get a part time job to cover that - in the U.S. you can normally work up to 20 hours a week on a student visa.) So if you get accepted to exchange with a university in the U.S., for example, you would be saving yourself quite a sum of money in tuition fees. Again, check how many exchange programs you can be eligible to do throughout your studies. If it's more than one, then doing one early on (at least in your second year, if possible) would be really good for your English - which I might add, already seems to be very good, but studying in a foreign language can be a challenge.
I don't know how far you plan to continue your studies, but in case you are considering going all the way, in some places, when you start your doctorate studies, you can actually get a monthly stipend which covers you for your three years of study and research. Yes, you get 'paid' to study. I have heard from someone working on coordinating university exchanges in North America that this may also be possible in the U.S. in some universities, but this would need to be investigated further.
Another possibility for doctorate studies, but I don't know if it's an option in universities in your country (or for medical studies), and that's to do your doctorate with two thesis directors. That means two universities and two countries. So you would be based in a university in your home country with your professor who will direct your thesis, and then you would find another professor in another university abroad (e.g. one of your chosen countries) who would also co-direct your thesis. (I hope you can follow this.) While based primarily in your home university, you would also spend at least two or three months of each year in the other university. And again, you would quite likely only have to pay the tuition fees for your home university, not the foreign one. The other advantage is that at the end, you graduate with two doctorate degrees - one from each university...
It's true studying at university is a big investment, but if you can minimise the amount of debt you end up with, I think you would be happy to know you have that option. Hopefully this can at least give you some ideas about what's on offer out there.
Take full advantage of this wonderful opportunity ahead of you. All the best to you.
i found this quote from the 12/15/12 p.29 study edition of the watchtower to be hilarious:.
"a college graduate in the united states.
says: i spent 18 years speaking and writing.
“I spent 18 years speaking and writing in the abstract language of higher education.
I developed a habit of speaking and thinking in a way that was more complicated
than necessary. I realized I needed to make big changes in my way of thinking
and speaking.”
Or in other words :
"I used to have a really interesting job where I used my brain and I gave it all up to p***eer."
up and running for 1 week.
started with 139 languages.
currently 155 languages.
On Sunday the site received 500,00 unique visits.
In a community of over 7 million, those are great support numbers...
Wonder how many of the unique visits were fellow apostates.
Exactly.
questions from readers ?
some animals have characteristics that seem especially suited to killing, such as lions and poisonous snakes.
how can this be, if they were all vegetarians at one time?l.
Anybody hear about grey nurse sharks, also known as sand tiger sharks? They have a double uterus which ensures a double birth. That's because all the other embryos are devoured by their siblings until just one is left in each uterus - the strongest.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_tiger_shark#Reproduction
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrauterine_cannibalism
http://medgadget.com/2009/02/scientists_developing_artificial_shark_uterus.html
Share it with some dubs and watch their reaction - certainly has them stumped... 'whatever was Jehovah thinking?'
i was just wondering if anyone else has been in a similar situation and can advise me?.
like many here, i was bought up as a jw, with full-time service (bethel, pioneer) the only career option held out in front of me.
i wanted to take a government loan and go to university, but was forced not to, labelled 'materialistic'.. i became a pioneer / window cleaner - round here, almost all pioneer brothers window clean, unless they are retired or have a rich daddy.
Being in the borg we tend to be quite cut off from the world and as a result fail to realise how much help is out there if we actually go looking for it.
Today, adult education is really growing and there are plenty of possibilities which would enable you to get your education and have an income to cover your basic needs.You just need to find them.
(A very quick search gave me this link which could be a starting point : http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/EducationAndLearning/AdultLearning/TrainingAndWorkplaceLearning/DG_10033137 - I'm guessing you're in the UK)
As you are struggling in your business, there should be no reason why you can't sign on as a job seeker which will open many doors to getting onto a program to learning a trade and more importantly, getting a qualification.
This can also include job experience placements where you can try out a job for a few weeks to see if that's what you really want to get into. You may not get paid for these short work experiences, but as they are put in place through unemployment programs (or whatever it's called in the uk) you will be fully covered by insurance in case something happens - which is not the case if you just work for someone for free.
You just need to decide what type of field(s) you'd like to work in and get out there and do it. You'll be amazed how many doors actually open to you.
one of the threads, someone posted a scripture.
it went something about older people being able to rest.
i need it.. skeeter.
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"It used to be that women faced all kinds of discrimination entering fields like medicine and law. Those barriers no longer exist. Women are active in other previously male-dominated professions as well and NASA has done a great deal of work in bringing women into its fold. But for some reason, there has been a notable lack of response and participation by people of color in space science. I look forward to your comments."
For one of my college papers, I had to study what is preventing more women from entering scientific fields, in particular at college level. Outside of the U.S. there is still discrimination against women. Some scientific college courses are made up of 75% male students (and inversely some literary courses are 75% female). The question is not so much one of discrimination, but as you say, why such a disparity, when education should be open for all?
There are a few factors to take into consideration.
A study was made of high school students receiving career guidance notably to pursue studies in the sciences. When girls presented themselves to the guidance officer, saying they wanted to have a career in science/study science in college, unless they had above average grades in science and maths, they would be discouraged from pursuing that course. On the other hand, the boys were consistently encouraged to pursue a scientific future, even when they had below average grades in the said subjects...
A second factor is a cultural conditioning that starts from the moment we are born, and something that we are often not even aware of. Why is it that little girls often want to play house and princesses, and boys want more adventure, exploring, etc? Go to the toy shop and look at what is on offer for them. Another comparison was made of childrens' literature, and how boys and girls are portrayed. Often, the boy was playing outside, the girl was inside or looking out the window, her face resting on her hands, dreaming, while mom was in the kitchen washing dishes, and dad had his feet up with the newspaper.
This same conditioning comes through in advertising, and if we are not aware of it, can effect what career choices we make, or what career advise we give to those around us.
To test to what extent we may be affected by conditioning, try this : when you see an advertisement where a person is portrayed doing a job (any job), if it's a man, stop and ask yourself if you'd find it a bit out of place if it was a woman in his place, and vice versa if it's a woman. And to come back to the subject in question - if it's a white person, swap it for a black/asian/hispanic/...person.
These factors and conditioning can also be at play in the question scientific careers and race. Coming back to the toy shop, this is what we'd have found on offer in the 60's :
Here's what we're starting to offer our kids today :
It's very important to inform young people of their choices and also make them aware of how certain factors can actually be influencing their choices without them even realising it (something we know all to well about and the consequences that can have...)
"I have recently graduated in MBA in HR. I intend to join as a HR Executive as trainee. One of the responsibilites of a HR executive is to indulge in employee engagment activies, one of which is to celebrate the birthdays of employee. Since, my religious beliefs don't allow me to celebrate brithdays, i am very much frustrated over taking a job offer in this field."
Zatang,
Not sure the fully active JW you are looking for will actually be able to help you.
1. Few will have had the opportunity to pursue education to the level you have.
and consequently
2. Will not have the qualifications to get this kind of job.
3. For fully active JWs that do find themselves offered a similar position to the one you have been offered and adhere strongly to their beliefs as you do, they would be questioning not only the birthday problem, but also the amount of time the job would take them away from their religious activities, the amount of time it would put them in contact with people not sharing their beliefs, and the negative influence this could (in their eyes) have on their faith.
Just for your reference, and to let you see into the JW world a little, this is a typical example of the propoganda JW's are regularly fed in their publications about how to deal with really good/well paid job offers :
"A former employee offered me a good office job, but I prefered to do cleaning work so that I could spend more time with Saúl and be with him when his school day ended" ~ Watchtower October 1, 2008 - page 29
pdfs can be obtained at jw.org.... spiritual gem #1. perhaps witnesses should apply the standard the wt recommends for gathering information on the internet to wt publications; from page 4:.
(1) who published this.
material?
Always check the sources...
Spiritual Gem #1. Perhaps Witnesses should apply the standard the WT recommends for gathering information on the internet to WT publications; from page 4:
(3) Where
did the author get the information? Does he
supply sources that can be checked?
On the same page of the article on the Internet (wt Aug 15 2011, page 4) is the following information :
"The Internet can even become
addictive. For example, an estimate pub-
lished in 2010 indicated that 18.4 percent of
Korean adolescents were affected by Internet
addiction."
This is link to the study made :
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2830415/
And a direct quote from the study :
" The incidence of Internet addiction in adolescents was estimated to be approximately 11% in China [2], 8% in Greece [5], and 18.4% in Korea [1]."
How did they make the study ? (This is where it gets interesting)
"This cross-sectional study included 1,000 adolescents from grades 7 through 9 living in Seoul, Korea. Of 1,000 participants, 800 students were recruited from eight junior high schools. The remaining 200 subjects were recruited from the Korean Youth Counseling Institute (KYCI), where they had been diagnosed and were being treated as Internet addicts."
Now do the math.
