Julia Orwell

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  What do you do when your job makes you wanna puke your face off?

  by Julia Orwell in

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  i'm talking like makes you physically sick and emotionally frazzled just thinking about it.

  i'm talking like you hate it to the point you'd rather go without than work at it just for the money.

  you'd live on cheap korean packet noodles for the next year instead of exchanging your labor for this job's money.. well, this is how i feel about teaching and tutoring.

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  Julia Orwell

  Confidence is a HUGE issue. Fear of failure is so strong it makes me not want to try. But I'm sure I'll get there one day.
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  What do you do when your job makes you wanna puke your face off?

  by Julia Orwell in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm talking like makes you physically sick and emotionally frazzled just thinking about it.

  i'm talking like you hate it to the point you'd rather go without than work at it just for the money.

  you'd live on cheap korean packet noodles for the next year instead of exchanging your labor for this job's money.. well, this is how i feel about teaching and tutoring.

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  Julia Orwell

  Yeah, I've done some pets on commission. I hope you liked my page! I've also done some landscapes for my brother. Please share my page or commission a piece. I need more publicity.
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  Looking Back, Are You Embarrassed By Your Attitudes, Speech, Actions as a JW?

  by minimus in

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  i think of how judgmental we were as witnesses.

  "worldly ones" were almost as bad as disfellowshipped ones but not as bad as "apostates"..

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  Julia Orwell

  Yes. Certain things I never subscribed to, such as I never allowed them to separate me from my non jw family. Other things I did become and attitudes I did develop...how can I now live with myself?
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  What do you do when your job makes you wanna puke your face off?

  by Julia Orwell in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm talking like makes you physically sick and emotionally frazzled just thinking about it.

  i'm talking like you hate it to the point you'd rather go without than work at it just for the money.

  you'd live on cheap korean packet noodles for the next year instead of exchanging your labor for this job's money.. well, this is how i feel about teaching and tutoring.

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  Julia Orwell

  One of the things I don't like about the job is the responsibility, like the mum above said...so many teachers are there for the money only and don't care about the kids. I do care about the kids, which is why I get stressed because I can't give them the best they deserve. Time to walk away.

  Self employment is a great idea. I sell some art on eBay every now and then (to see my stuff, go to Facebook and search "Art by Sheree Stokell) and I take in some proofreading for uni students via email. I don't get a liveable income from these thing, but I could always invest more time into them now I have some more time on my hands. these are also things I can do from home.

  Thanks all for your support. It is a depressing time right now to be so aimless, but I'm glad it's not just me. The wt has a lot to be blamed for. Not for all of it, but a lot.
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  What do you do when your job makes you wanna puke your face off?

  by Julia Orwell in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm talking like makes you physically sick and emotionally frazzled just thinking about it.

  i'm talking like you hate it to the point you'd rather go without than work at it just for the money.

  you'd live on cheap korean packet noodles for the next year instead of exchanging your labor for this job's money.. well, this is how i feel about teaching and tutoring.

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  Julia Orwell

  You got that right!! One of my problems because of that is that my confidence is shot to pieces. The thought of certain jobs makes me feel the same way I'd feel if I had to go to a kingdom hall: a mix of trepidation, anxiety, stress and disgust.
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  Abiogenesis takes another step forward.....

  by snare&racket in

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  spark of life: metabolism appears in lab without cells19:42 25 april 2014 by linda geddesfor similar stories, visit the evolution and human evolution topic guidesmetabolic processes that underpin life on earth have arisen spontaneously outside of cells.

  the serendipitous finding that metabolism the cascade of reactions in all cells that provides them with the raw materials they need to survive can happen in such simple conditions provides fresh insights into how the first life formed.

  it also suggests that the complex processes needed for life may have surprisingly humble origins.. "people have said that these pathways look so complex they couldn't form by environmental chemistry alone," says markus ralser at the university of cambridge who supervised the research.. but his findings suggest that many of these reactions could have occurred spontaneously in earth's early oceans, catalysed by metal ions rather than the enzymes that drive them in cells today.. the origin of metabolism is a major gap in our understanding of theemergence of life.

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  Wow, the bits I understood were so cool! Fancy metabolism starting like that. Neato.
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  What do you do when your job makes you wanna puke your face off?

  by Julia Orwell in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm talking like makes you physically sick and emotionally frazzled just thinking about it.

  i'm talking like you hate it to the point you'd rather go without than work at it just for the money.

  you'd live on cheap korean packet noodles for the next year instead of exchanging your labor for this job's money.. well, this is how i feel about teaching and tutoring.

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  Julia Orwell

  I'm talking like makes you physically sick and emotionally frazzled just thinking about it. I'm talking like you hate it to the point you'd rather go without than work at it just for the money. You'd live on cheap Korean packet noodles for the next year instead of exchanging your labor for this job's money.

  Well, this is how I feel about teaching and tutoring. It makes me curl up in a ball in a dark room. I've been working in tourism but the season is over and there's no more work. I've been applying for admin jobs, which is another industry in which I have skills as well as customer service type roles. I get the odd interview or two each week, but nothing yet. There is so little reputable work in my city it's ridiculous, and the listings shrink every day.

  So I keep tutoring as it's my most marketable skill, but I hate, hate, hate teaching of all types with a deep loathing and want to get out of it so badly I even considered door to door sales (13years a jw publisher certainly qualifies me!). Of course I won't do it, cuz I hate that too, and anything jw -like repulses me. Now, we have some savings in the bank, enough for me to live off til the tourism season picks up. People tell me however that I should just suck it up and keep teaching. They just don't understand how detrimental it is for my health though, and how much I feel like I'm walking to my own funeral when I walk into a student's house or classroom full of kids. What to do!

  It's a nasty cycle. Teaching makes me depressed (clinically; have all the Dr reports) and when I'm depressed I find it hard to focus on my book or art or even more studies, things that may get me out of this rut. Yet when I'm not teaching I'm looking for other work. Not difficult work, but middling type of work. I believe certain work is beneath me, like anything jw-like. I also have a chronic condition meaning a lot of physical work is off limits.

  Has anyone here ever been in such a bind? What to do?
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  I heard an interesting piece of information from a super-elder today

  by Barrold Bonds in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  today i attended the special assembly day (sad lol).

  i overheard a conversation between an elder and another elder.

  we'll call this guy a super elder because he's on all sorts of committees in the area.

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  Julia Orwell

  Erm... England is not one of the world's two biggest powers anymore. Hate to bust jw bubble! It just shows how clueless about the world they are. A big convention in China - now that would be something to gloat about.
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  this weekend's "SPECIAL TALK"....

  by stuckinarut2 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  ok, so as most know, this is the weekend of the "special talk" .... if anyone is going to the k hall, please shaer your thoughts on what makes is "so special".... i bet it will be more recycled same same.... "god loves you, he hates violence, he hates bad things happening to good people, he wants you all to be jw memebers...or he will kill you all at the big loving armageddon!!!!!!!

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  Julia Orwell

  All I remember about every one of these talks I ever sat through was some speaker blah blah blah-ing about how terrible the world is with statistics and anecdotal information about there being more crime, war, disease, violence and immortality than ever before. I remember walking out on one because it was just so depressing!
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  Recent changes

  by Thumblina in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i was on this board a lot when i faded and left 6 years ago but not been on much since.

  is there any thread/s in particular to read showing the changes in the past 5 years?

  or any kind willing person who has time to summarise them as a reply below??

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  Julia Orwell

  They teach the rapture but not by that name.