A day in the life of a 2x2 worker

Many people wonder what a workers day is like. Well, it's pretty boring and unfulfilling from my experience.

Typically you stay in the home of someone in the field. You get up sometime around when they get up and then they serve you breakfast. Sometimes they whole family will be there because they are "having the workers over" and other times it's just one or two.

Sometimes (rarely anymore) they will read the Bible together. Most know that workers are uneducated and understand little of the Bible. So many of the verses are twisted in rephrasing so as to make the group look like the original group that Jesus started. The reading is very shallow as most are in a hurry and off everybody goes to work, except the workers.

Then the man of the house goes off to work and the kids go off to school. This creates a dangerous situation because now you may have a couple or one man in the house with the wife home alone. Many of the women that profess don't care for their husbands and tell almost everyone but their husband about it. But usually workers stay in their rooms and only come out for meals or the meetings.

If you were going to spend the night at the same house again, you could leave your stuff there, otherwise you packed things together to move again for the evening.

Then you usually go on a "visit" with some of the "friends" or go run some errands.

For lunch, you usually schedule it so that someone else is fixing or buying you lunch. You don't collect much money at meetings as a younger worker.

In the afternoon, you usually "study" for the upcoming meeting if there is one that evening. If not, you usually schedule and afternoon visit. My companion would often schedule visits more with the favorites in the field. These included people with nicer homes and more money and who financially supported us more.

We would come home often in the afternoon. The people would often give us keys to the house so that we could come and go as we pleased. Many did this out of pity realizing we had no home of our own. Sometimes we would be home when the kids came home from school. Sometimes both parents worked.

Supper time was usually spent at the home of wherever we were staying that evening. You wait for the man of the house to come home and chat with the kids (maybe) or read their newspaper while sitting on the couch.

They usually eat supper together when the workers are there. The man usually asks the older worker to give thanks for the meal. Maybe during supper you talk about what workers are doing what, who's going to conventions, who died, who got divorced NOT!, who got married. The talk is light and probably best so because beliefs vary widely and most 2x2s don't know beans about the Bible or God.

1. Total work done for the Lord during the day: NONE
2. Total talking time usually done: about 4 hours of idle chat
3. Total Godly counsel time spent: zero, the Bible is not used as a guideline for living, rather a twisted support of their weird lives
4. Job satisfaction: Zilch, Nadda, none