Not just my career.
The physical affects of my JW upbringing are a very good anti-witness.
Did being raised a JW retard your career or cost you BIG $$$?
by The Berean 38 Replies latest jw friends
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digderidoo
Yeah, definately.
I was always an intelligent kid, had an IQ of 155 and became a window cleaner part time.
It's only now in my late thirties that i'm getting a degree. I was angry for many years that i had no education and done menial jobs most of my life.
Paul
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freeman
I was not raised in the Lie, but yes becoming a fool for the tower did cost me big $$$.
It caused me to turn down a very high paying engineering position in the aerospace industry because a portion of the work was defense related at a time I was desperately in need of income. Instead I became a TV / VCR repairman deeply in debt. Years later after struggling to provide for my family, I was offered my dream job, (NASA engineer / security specialist). It was a test; the elders said I had to make a choice between providing for my family at the cost of irregular meeting attendance, or regular meeting attendance, while my family suffered. A choice between my dream job of developing and testing security systems of billion dollar satellites such as the Hubble, or cleaning out cockroaches from the inside of witnesses TV sets.
I made the choice on July 4 th 1987, that was my independence day, and I have no regrets!
This cult robs you of your hopes, your dreams, and sometimes even your life. I thank God each and every day that he has led me out of evil cult; it is now my mission to help others become free of its clutches.
I AM a Freeman
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Kudra
Very cool story Freeman.
So you made the choice to take the NASA job then?? Very nice.
Hah- I could use your help- I am trying to get a bunch of Landsat images online and am having trouble... I am really computer-skills-impaired...
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minimus
WE ALL could've been more prosperous $$$.
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Witness 007
No not at all....picking fruit, cleaning windows and toilets for Jehovah was my F##king dream job.....at least now I make big money in a government job, my plasma T.V is bigger then a life boat so the Witnesses can kiss my ass!
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ex-nj-jw
No, I got out early and never played the JW games or by their rules. From the comments here I was very lucky I ran when I did.
nj
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mary stewart
HELL YEAH! never COULD keep a job for one reason or another. my last was cos of a lie. my boss was gullible enough to believe it but my boss know me longer!
never could understand other people 100%. :P
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done4good
I was one of the "lucky" ones, I suppose. Like most jws, I did not prepare for college, and found myself in a very dead end job post HS graduation. However, I had a good liberal jw friend, (very successful), insist I enroll in University, after that summer. I half-heartedly went, knowing truly I had no other choice. This was about a year before the WTS softened their views on higher ed, so I kept a low profile.
Three years later I finished by B.S. in Telecommunications, (took two full credit summers to finish early), and began my IT/Telecom career. It has served me well, I current am working as the lead engineer for NYC's 911 project, (the world's largest), with a very good salary, and relative security.
Yes, lucky. Many of my jw freinds did not fare nearly as well. The WTS society's views on higher ed DOES destroy people's lives.
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Scarred for life
No, not directly. I left when I was 15. I went to college. I eventually got a 2nd degree. I think being raised a JW did affect my confidence in myself. That's something that has always been lacking in me and I know has affected both my careers.
In my father's case, I can say without hesitation that being a JW cost him several promotions and the chance at more lucrative positions. He was counseled by the elders several times about the time and travel that his job required that took him away from the "kingdom work". I still don't know why he took it and didn't tell them to go jump off a cliff. He never quit his job. But he did ask for a demotion not too long before he died suddenly. I'm becoming more and more convinced in my mind that the pressure from the JWs along with some heart problems that he had developed along with his rising doubts and regrets of spending almost his whole adult life in a false cult contributed to his death. He was under a lot of stress along with the realization that he had wasted his whole life on this cult.