I went to a church fête this morning and it seems that, once you're in, being a priest is a relatively easy life. You put on a few silly robes to say a few sermons and do the odd church event. I think I could live with that. Plus, a lot of churchy young women have that strangely alluring oddball vibe to them. I think I could manage that, reading the bible and telling people to be nice.
I think it's replaced postman as my fall back career option for when I eventually decide to say 'fuck it' and pack in my job for something placid.
I think it takes several years of climbing the corporate Jesus ladder. I don't think it's an entry-level job, and they'd need to be really sure you weren't just trying to chance it in the way that you actually are doing. And they'll ask you lots of questions about the Bible, and even if you pass, you'll still need the same opinions as the people above you or you won't get anywhere. It's probably quite like being an MP or a local councillor in that respect: a total piece of piss, but only for a very lucky select few.
I think we did have a man of God posting here once. It takes around 7 years of study from what I remember and any money is merely resting in your account.
>a lot of churchy young women have that strangely alluring oddball vibe to them
Try an evangelical church. My local one takes in men when they're as young as 25 and trains them to be pastors. Not sure what pay is like, but if you're after oddballs then evangelical church is the place for you.
According to this, if you want to be a trainee vicar you should be a regular churchgoer and approach your vicar to see if they think you'd be suitable to join the ministry. If they'll support your application the next step is to be interviewed by a selection panel and if you're successful in that they'll pay for you to study for a degree in theology.
My BIL is active in a CoE church, possibly on this path. Currently does pastor stuff. The petty politicking and bickering in the congregation at large - well, the engaged ones not the ones dragged in by partners / parents or just depressed and wanting some silent company on a Sunday morning, trumps anything he's ever seen.
'Ooh, the vicar wouldn't like that', fighting for specious duties, currying favour with Jesus. Just madness. Take the office 101 thread, make most of the participants either highly strung or elderly (or both), add a veneer of 'Jesus wants', and start arguing about the photocopier.
Not with a fucking bargepole, m8.
Just call yourself Reverend Anon, move to a new area and build a cult of personality around yourself. Sooner than you know, you'll be surrounded by mad church totty and have the FBI (Met in this country? Who would we use to flatten your compound and burn you out?) at the door.
>>445040 >The petty politicking and bickering in the congregation at large - well, the engaged ones not the ones dragged in by partners / parents or just depressed and wanting some silent company on a Sunday morning, trumps anything he's ever seen.
I knew years of reading tedious cunt-offs on here would eventually pay off somehow.