charlowsky:
Why is life like this, God? this lady should have deleted marriage from her fantasy naa. That's a burden to the guy. for me, except the guy insists, the lady should have said no, considering workload for on the guy, and child bearing!

No one is perfect in life, you have mental disability with these ur statement, mind u anything can happen to anybody anytime what if you have an accident and you loose both ur legs and eyes, will u delete marriage from ur life? How old are u self? Go to blazes

Nigeman:
Seun, Seun, Seun, how many times did I call you. I may need to go to North Korea because of this your Nairaland o.

See nonsense people are posting on Nairaland, this can make me import some Nuclear viruses to Bomb your Nairaland o.

As a matter of fact control some lunatics you have in the house now. Sarki I thought was a reasonable fellow has taken excess Tramadol this night

Sarki and other assholes with negative comments on Justice Salami needs psychiatrist's attention my brother

OAUTemitayo:

The case was not even about fraud or anything financial.
You are just making jest of your intelligence here.

Before you engage kids and semi illiterates on arguments here, ask for their qualifications, stop educating kids bro, God bless you

sarrki:
Wait wait oooo

Same Ayo salami of appeal court ?

Are we short of man power

Must everything be about pay back

Sarrki!!!!, im dissapointed with your comment, I respect you more than this! Withdraw this comment or you will loose ur respects from Buhari's associates, or have you been bribed by oppositions?

mikeolu1:
I was in the circuit work from 1993 to 2000. Many things were different then, plus I served in a foreign country and I lived mostly in a missionary home. My comments are mine of course and other CO's may have completely different feelings about the circuit work. I did however interact with a lot of other CO's and DO's and hear their personal thoughts, which were often strikingly similar. There was always another CO or DO living in the missionary home where I lived, some were locals and some were missionaries as well. We would talk and compare notes every week. Also, while I vacationed here in the States, I would visit other CO's to get advice, we would talk for a long time. I enjoyed the camaraderie even though they were usually way older than me. We felt the same about a lot of things. I guess what I am trying to say is that a lot of CO's feel the same as I did, they just won't tell you, just as I wouldn't have told you back then.

Anyway, for what it's worth, here is my take:

Tuesday afternoon.

Time to find the Kingdom Hall for that week and go over the records. It was always hot and sometimes I had a hard time finding the Hall. I would sit with the Secretary and go over the numbers. I would pull the last Circuit Overseers report and see what he wrote they needed to work on and I would ask the Secretary what they had done to apply the last CO's recommendations. I would see the percentage of meeting attendance versus publisher count. Usually it was over 100% on Sundays, a lot of non-publisher children were counted, and way less attendance during the week. I looked at the number of new publishers, newly baptized, how many were disfellowshipped and for what, who was deleted as elder or servant and why, who became inactive, what major problems were going on, etc. Mostly it was crunching numbers, though.

I would also see who they wanted to recommend for elder and servant. And I would try and get the secretary to talk to me about congregation problems and matters while I did the numbers, so I wouldn't have to stay too long. There was always at least one disfellowshipping and a reproof or two and they would always tell me why. Fornication or adultery usually. I also looked at the pioneers publishers cards, at those who had become inactive and I would ask why that happened. I wouldn't go over every name, only those that stood out somehow. For example, I would see a publisher card of a brother age 21 who was putting in 30 hours a month and have a lot of placements and a Bible study. I would ask about him. Why wasn't he being recommended as a servant? Sometimes he was recently reproved or he had problems with his attitude or perhaps pornography or drinking or a worldly girlfriend or he misses a ton of meetings or he was in college. Yep, college was a valid reason not to recommend.

Or another card would show someone whose hours had gone way down. Why? They were sick or had been offended or they were reproved or they seemed to be hiding something, they had suddenly started missing meetings. I would try to find out and schedule a visit with them. I would try to get a sense of the personality of the congregation and I learned early on to try to solve the problems early in the week. I tried to limit that initial Tuesday meeting to one hour.

...This brother is answering questions on the thread below, if you want to ask him questions, just go to the link below.

https://www.reddit.com/r/exjw/comments/6zkzvt/what_its_like_to_be_a_circuit_overseer_part_1/


Here is an example of his answer:
Question:
What were you providing by way of training or training materials? Can you give a quick summary of your personal progression from unbaptized publisher through to CO, including approximate ages for each event?
I'm fascinated by your post, please continue. I like how you're outlining within each day of a typical week, I hope you eventually include details of irregular weeks (pre-assembly, various conventions, meetings with GB, annual meetings, etc). Thank you for sharing!

Answer by CO:
Ha ha training materials. All of us in the circuit work in that country used to joke about that. "Where are our training materials? Where is the training book?"
There was no book. I received a letter stating I was invited to CO training in two months time and prior to that to prepare three service talks adaptable to different situations. The training was two weeks long. I observed a CO for one week serving a congregation, I didn't give any talks or preside over anything. Then I served the next congregation and he observed me. Then that Sunday evening we sat down and he reviewed my performance and sent his recommendations to the Branch. Three weeks later I received my appointment and my circuit assignment. That's it! I received a copy of all letters to Circuit Overseers from 1973 on, some said to make sure we start the week Tuesday at 1 pm. Others talked about judicial matters. Others talked about assembly prep. It seems so bizarre that they would give us such a position with so little training. The Branch Organization Manual which was kept in the Branch Office Library, some of you have seen this, has a page or two on Circuit Overseers. It says they should be "seasoned elders and experienced pioneers." So usually a CO has a lot of elder experience. I had three years experience. by that time. After I was a CO for three years or so, I started to train other elders as CO's. Same thing. They would accompany me for a week observing, then I would observe them for a week. Then I wrote my recommendation to the Branch. I trained 7 elders to be CO's, I recommended 6 of them. One guy was so clueless even I couldn't recommend him.

But it's a joke, really. Where was the real training to actually help people? People on here keep asking the same valid question, where was your real training?

There was none.

Its a joke. Men dressing up in suits acting like they know how to tell others how to live.

My personal progression? Publisher at 5 years old. Baptized at 15. Pioneer at 16. MS at 20. MTS at 23. Missionary at 24. Appointed elder at my assignment at 24. CO at 28.

What exactly are u driving at?

chrisbills74:



You must be high on igboo.. ...
The president has the right to choose anyone as his VP, former PEJ single handedly picked Namadi Sambo as his VP... So please consult your memory...

First most sensible comment on this thread since, bro leave these small small guys alone

IamAirforce1:
Got back from school feeling so tired so I took a quick nap
Only to get up I found this delicious Semo and okra soup , roasted corn and the rest all prepared by my beautiful girl friend .

Wow

This is love .

Get a caring bae and be happy.

It is too late to fail, Amen .

How old are u? No offence pls just asking

auntysimbiat:
So sad

First most sensible comment!

Probityfarms:
Interesting Read. You can also get to share your work/ information on my farmers forum.

Click on; www.probityfarms.com/forum

and create your post i am sure you would be able to reach more farmers. keep up the good work

Thanks bro, I will do that for my agric products too, how do I link up with your site? Or is it for the OP alone?

DaniDani:
Interesting article I must say. I got cracked up when I read "Finally, he prayed to God to abstain from his next
Mathematics exam. He said he practised with
several past question papers and he passed without
God’s involvement. Since then, he regularly prayed
to God to remove His hand from whatever he
wanted to do, and most of the time, he said he
recorded success".

Anyway, I am an Igbo man, and sincerely, I don't like the beef between Igbos and Yorubas. The two regions are the pillars of this country. In Education, Sports, entertainment, economy etc. We ought to be in harmony and use our high IQs to cooperate and prosper.

One of the few intelligent comments on nairaland, God will bless you brother.@ sarrki, be matured and stop replying all anti buhari comments, president Buhari will come back soon and wax stronger, shame will come to unreasonable Nigerians, president Buhari is God's sent and he will live longer than those who want him dead. #refrain from tribal politics

The hilarious aspect is that Neighborhood security will rescue the man!

234GT:


I won't board a plane if I knew the pilot will be praising God during the flight. That's me.
You don't have to praise God during the flight because its a sunday. The day and time you priase God doesn't matter.
What matters is that you praise Him. What stops you from praising God after the flight?

Why waste ur time educating these religious bigots? He could hv prayed and worshiped before or after the flight, he would hv lost his license if its an advanced country, im sorry for our dear Nigeria!

Walentino990:
@eyinjuege, am sorry about this. Sincerely, i received a call on friday night telling me to come over to work at an aluminium company, so unexpectedly... Please am so sorry.. Accept my apology!... Let do it this way, i believe if av worked much, i will repay you back for your loss... Please send me your acct no to repay the loss... House, its not my fault.

This is one of d reasons why people stop assisting others, do you think you are dealing with fools here? I was thinking of assisting you financially but your story get k-leg

superior1:
Legitimization of poorly baked graduates, I hope it never gets the President signature.

Nawa oo, your comment is due to ur ignorance

chloride6:
Igbayii laa ro.

Mad man

Very sensible comment, se osese ji ni? And must he wait to come to Epe before making these observation?

Pavore9:


Continue with the sharing, Preprobiotics has been sorted out.

God bless u bros

organicfoods:
I should mind my business on my own thread? I have stylishly given you an idea on how to market your products instead of shoving it down my followers throat.. I have built my reputation by being helpful, if you follow the same steps you will also do well. But if you choose to continue with you spamming, good luck.. .I leave the thread for you now as you do not deserve any mention from me anymore.

You dont need to leave this wonderful thread, ignore him pls he has learnt from his mistakes and apology on his behalf!

Prebiotics, in as much as you have right to marketing your products, why dont you open a new thread, convince people and be open to questions and answers on ur products, Organicfoods have a lot of followers who have benefited from his research, go n create ur thread

Agritech:


My phone and computer was stollen. I lost the pictures I wanted to use , including more than a thousand eBooks.

But I have made a promise I must fulfil, Good willing.

Thank you very much, God will continue to help you

Papiikush:
See as person waste 2 Acres on sugarcane. There are more profitable things you could have done dude!

How old are u? Wats ur qualifications? Silence is golden many times instead of displaying high level of ignorance

No matured comments since, d truth is bitter, Nigerian ladies hv to be serious wt true relationships and not game playing, @ Op ure very correct!

Benita27:
The "Ordinary milk" in the subject of the thread irked me. The lady had every right to be mad at you...please what quantity of tea do you make that you had to use 3spoons of milk?. That's too much for someone living off others whether you presumed they had enough to throw around.

Over familiarity breed contempt. You've over stayed your welcome, kindly relocate.

This is my mind, must He even use milk? 3 spoons? Why? Too much nau, he so wasteful, children need milk more and besides, must you eat everytime they give you? Why not restrict your feeding from them to just once per day? Go and look for job, any type of job at least to feed urself

ewa26:
yes you can dear, but if you using stout you need curry to conceal and cancel the bitternes ok

Now we only use baked beans for the devilled egg egusi for breakfasting, you know that wan were we cook salad and serve with egusi ba?

We need psychiatrist section on Nairaland asap

NwaNimo1:
7) Do you have steady electricity?

8.) What time does the bar close?

9) Does the AC work?

10) What time is check out?

These points over ride the OP's useless points which arent applicable to an average Nigerian

ewa26:
hisn!! will you sharrap you dety mout before I slap you into sokoto now this women are you okey at all we don't add vinegar to garri because that one will ruin the authentic African taste you can use ketchup in place of palm oil to fry it if it is to be yellow garri ok

Lol, thank you our greatest chef!

ewa26:
and wetin that one mean, i naro asu

Ask your psychiatrist, pls sorry gv us garri recipe wt tomatoe ketchup and vinegar plss

ewa26:
will you sharrap you dety mouth dee nonsense girl

Go and complete ur treatment and thank me later, OPONU AFOFUNGBEMU

kc2hansome:


I pity for the doctor that discharged u from psychiatry ward. He will surely loose his licence.

He ran away from the ward, check all his horrible food recipes and follow any at ur own risk my brother

Agritech:


This works too.

Pls, we are waitting for the plantain own sir

Op you tried, however why not add pepper and enough oil while cooking? No need for pepper sauce and same day corn is the best and if not available, sweet corn in cans will be a good subsitute.