by AK - Jeff 11 Replies latest jw friends
How many, due to Watchtower restrictions on education, are or were janitors, bus drivers, waitresses, ect.
This is not to disparrage any of these honorable jobs - just wondering how widespread this was. I never attended a congregation where there were not several janitors. One brother in texas made a fortune in the cleaning business, and I was his Operations guy for a few years. But most struggled to survive till the big "A", which means they are still struggling.
Just curious.
Jeff
Sad but true! I was a lowly "janitor" and banked 6 figures for 5 straight years! Quit the biz after 16 years.
Now I'm Most Exalted Emperor Grand Poo Pa of my own little universe (having finally attained the level of "humility" needed when I was a janitor).
Now I just sit and chat on the computer while naves (still working on humility) serve at my beck and call.
Man I wished I would have taken the scholarship I EARNED and went to college.
Seriously- I wished I'd went to school (Actually I'm still interested in going Hmmmmm)
u/d
I was never a janitor, but my janitor friend told me he was a maintenance engineer.
The only time I was a janitor, was at the circut assemblies. I always got stuck cleaning the toilets. I hated that job. I had to take their shit and clean it too.
Dustin
I still am a waitress and I love it! I like interacting with people and having money in my pocket nightly.
That being said, it's not what I want to do forever. I'm putting myself through school so that I can have a real job.
I never knew any JW janitors, maybe my congregation was weird like that. Most of the elders had good jobs and some, like my father, were college educated.
There are NO janitors in the UK.
We only have caretakers.
..and fortnights.
Englishman.
Not a janitor, but part of an early morning cleaning crew in supermarkets. This left me time to do pioneering!!! When I think back .....
I started housekeeping and ironing for pay when I was 16. When I got married, my husband was a janitor for a JW's small company. I worked with him, didn't get paid, but he got paid for full time and I helped cut his time down.
His boss died of a sudden brain hemmorage. My dad got him into the electrical union as a maintenance electrician.
Since he was on days, I got bored as a housewife, so I went to work as a file clerk in an insurance office. From there the rest is history, as I ended up working on computers in later years and then moved into the software industry. It was a natural migration for a electrician's daughter as he taught me to read electrical schematics, and how to use his power tools starting about 8 or 9 years old.
There are NO janitors in the UK.We only have caretakers.
..and fortnights.
Englishman.
Hey what a consequence - we don't have 'em down here either, not less they're on holiday from Noo York.
You do have bus drivers though - I was bought up 'on the buses' with reg varney (had dreams of being a bus conductor or at least playing with the ticket punch).
plumberbruce who'd watch a Jehovahs bus driver veeeery carefully
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Welcome back UB! Missed ya!!
Ian
