Time is precious, or, the time wasted in a week of a good JW

by DubBeachBabe 1 Replies latest jw friends

  • DubBeachBabe
    DubBeachBabe

    From my post at JWO:

    This is my real weekly report, aged 18 to about 26 years old.

    Meetings : officially 5 hours

    Getting ready for meetings, including showering, putting on subtle Christian make-up so as to look sisterly and not scare the brothers, or taking off trousers and putting on dress or skirt, packing book bag, finding Watchtower or NWT or Paradise book or Kingdom Ministry School bruchure thingy, and field service notes for report @ 45 minutes per average meeting (usually more): 2.25 hours

    Traveling to and from meetings and parking @ 20 minutes each way: 2 hours

    Socialising and finding seats before (@10 minutes) and socialising, encouraging new ones and making FS arrangement after (@ 20 minutes): 1.5 hours

    Preparing for meetings and talks @ 30 minutes per Watchtower, bookstudy, KMS and 1.5 hours per 'sister talk': 1.75 hours on average per week

    Field service : 2.5 hours to keep to the minimum of 10 hours per month to remain a good publisher

    Getting ready for field service, including showering, putting on subtle Christian make-up so as to look sisterly and not to scare the householders, or taking off trousers and putting on dress or skirt, packing book bag, finding Watchtowers and Awakes and Reasoning Book and NWT and other books for the month @ 45 minutes per average field service trip (usually more): 1.5 hours assuming field service twice a week

    Traveling to and from field service meeting and parking @ 20 minutes each way: 1.3 hours assuming field service twice a week

    Socialising and finding seats before (@10 minutes) : 0.3 hours

    Socialising, encouraging new publishers and children, sorting out maps, making new FS arrangement and traveling to territory (@ 30 minutes): 1 hour

    Self-indoctrination, I mean personal study : 0 hours

    Family-indoctrination, I mean family study : 0 hours

    Total: About 19 hours a week

    That's more than 80 hours every month, or about 1000 hours every year, just being a basic JW.

    And that's before doing anything else, like building projects. (Yes I certainly did, steel wiring and tiling and painting at the local Bethel building project on weekends.)

    And note, NO family study or personal study or daily texts.

    This is two frigging working days a week of basic Being a JW 101!

  • Mysterious
    Mysterious

    Being a corner cutting slacker youth who just wanted out for 4 months perspective:

    Meetings: 5 hours
    Travel time: 10 mins return trip @ 4 times per week (3 meeting nights + field service) = 40 minutes
    Book Study prep (aka the rapid highlight): 10 minutes
    Family Study(Watchtower Prep/Bible Reading): 1 hour, 20 minutes
    Prep for field service: 0 minutes
    Field service: 2 hours
    Grooming time prior to meetings/service: 5 minutes @ 4 times per week = 20 minutes
    Reading literature: 10 minutes per week to scan
    Wasted time (visiting before meetings and after etc) = approx 10 x4 = 40 minutes

    Total: 10 hours, 20 minutes

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