whythedarkness wrote:
I really feel for JWs/exJWs who were told not to pursue higher education...Hug

Yeah I was another who went straight from high school graduation to full time pioneering, supporting myself by office cleaning work.  It's been one of those things that I wish I had been able to experience...now it's a time/money factor where I'd never be able to do full time college coursework.  Possible a class or two per semester, but then it's back to the money issue.  smiley: frown

Fortunately, I've been lucky enough to keep working this whole time without a degree...but it makes it tough when you don't have the degree PLUS you are an introvert.  It tends to make people think you have no ideas/nothing worthwhile to offer...oh well. 
  

...Rob.

“This I believe: That the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.”

-John Steinbeck