Yes I did,
i always heard from the platform, "reach out for greater privileges and you will be blessed"
For several years I made a focused effort to reach out for more responsibilities, and priveleges and realized that it was
like putting a carrot before a cart horse.
Bro elder : you need to work on your answering at the meetings.
Me : Alright, ( next several months improved, and also improved service, family study,assisting literature servant who never did anything, and
helping others in the hall who were old and needed help.)
Six months later,
bro. elder: well, you have a great reputation, and have improved in spiritual matters, but we have noticed that you don't have all your literature
studied (meaning underlined) for each meeting. So why dont you work on that, and we will review your qualifications the next CO visit?
Six years of this game and I realized that as long as I did not become a part of their "good old boys" club my position in the hall would not change.
It was very dissapointing to me, i really was trying to do better, but the boe self-imposed glass ceiling prevented many brothers who were qualitied from reaching out. Family ties, business dealings, were more important than real spiritual qualifications