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United Methodist Church

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It's not a job - Pastor United Methodist Church Employee Review

3.0
7 Feb 2018
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Pros

Being a pastor is a way of being, a calling. It brings you into intense, personal, deep contact with others. It is: conflict resolution, peace negotiation, orator, teacher, administrative management, creative visionary, social work, manual labor, therapist, and more, rolled into one package. If you like to multitask but see things through, if you are passionate about social justice and not afraid to make everyone angry for the sake of what's right, and if there is nothing else you could ever see yourself doing, be a pastor.

Cons

No one knows what you do, but everyone thinks they do. And wants you to do something else. Everyone wants you to tell them they are tight and the other guy is wrong. You are unlikely to be well paid. You will probably move around every few years - this is good and bad, actually. Tax time will suck for you. Dating will be hard.

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Cons

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Pros

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Cons

okay atmosphere, long drives for events, turnovers in positions

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