are times ecomonically difficult for jws?

cameo-d

No more so than for anyone else.

I think JWs would fare better than many others in an economic depression.

According to threads I have seen here, many have had menial service type jobs. I would think that they are more humble and not afraid to get their hands dirty or work hard.

I cannot imagine that a Fortune 500 CEO would "lower" him/her self to clean stables or wash windows. These people spend a fortune on personal maintainence and have to "keep up a certain image" and have an imagined 'prestige'.

These are the types that chose suicide during the great depression. They are trapped into feeling that they must maintain a certain lifestyle or life is not worth living.

Many people without higher education have to be more self motivated and creative in finding work to do.

I think there is much more personal freedom in being a minnow than in being a whale.

snowbird

*nodding head in agreement with cameo-d*

My family started out with nothing to speak of materially; sharecropping was the lowest on the economic scale.

Now, some of us have college degrees and very good jobs.

If it should come to that, I would have no problem scrubbing floors, working in the fields, or doing whatever is necessary to put food on the table.

I suspect many people, JW's included, feel likewise. We all may as well prepare for it, because days are coming in which EVERYONE will be scrapping for the necessities of life.

As Brother Apostate says, "Prepare for it."

Sylvia

IWillBeDubbedNoMore

No, Because Jah will provide

WTWizard

The ones that are losing their cleaning and window washing businesses (companies will let their windows get a little dirtier before cleaning if they are struggling) are going to feel the crisis. And, with field circus and Worldwide Pedophile Defense Fund donation expectations still steady, they are in a pickle.

Scarred for life

I would think that most JWs have jobs that would be very affected by all the layoffs and and business contractions going on right now. All those low-level jobs are the first to be cut.

badboy

BTTTT

OnTheWayOut

I cannot imagine that a Fortune 500 CEO would "lower" him/her self to clean stables or wash windows. These people spend a fortune on personal maintainence and have to "keep up a certain image" and have an imagined 'prestige'.

I have to go with WTWizard here. Many JW's are window washers and cleaners of
small businesses, or perhaps even large businesses. If you are the janitor at a
fortune 500 company, they are still cutting back and getting one guy to empty the
trash and clean the bathrooms, but letting the windows and floors get a bit dirty.

If you clean a small to medium business, they might do it themselves. Window
cleaners exclusively, well- they try to figure out how to clean them and just let the
help go in a bad economy.

They don't fare worse than others necessarily, but are not spared more often because
of the nature of their work.

What will burn me is if I hear how they are bragging about how sound their counsel was
to skip college and getting wrapped up in "this system of things." "See how wise we
turned out to be during this bad economy?" That would suck, because bad economies
come and go and they did their people no favors telling them to stay uneducated.
Think of the money they could have put aside if they were engineers and nurses and
technicians and businessmen. That might have been some valuable training.

are times ecomonically difficult for jws?

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