Living with parents is fine and good but personally anytime Ive been a NEET its been living in an absolutely soul rending limbo where time just stops meaning anything real.
You'd be surprised, only take a a couple months to get sucked back into the employment grind once you pick up a job. I was out of work for a year during COVID and got right back in basically overnight when I managed to land a nice office gig. Before that I was unemployed for a year and a half living in a charity home with my mom and siblings, also managed to slide right back into work when I got a job then too.
It can seem daunting when you're in the limbo, but most (at least "entry level" or "service") jobs are full of a ton of people who are working just for the exact amount they need to pay rent and get drunk or participate in hobbies. Made really good friends working with the wretched refuse of society. The proles are alright.
5 years and 2 months here. My hope is that I will be able to get on disability for mental health reasons 🙏
As much as the culturally-instilled guilt and shame of being unemployed (and getting welfare) hurts me, I do not miss my previous jobs and would rather be kicked in the nuts every day than have to work again.
I do not miss my previous jobs and would rather be kicked in the nuts every day than have to work again.
That's what I don't get. All these people saying not working is soul-crushing...huh? Have they even been to work? Get up early, drive a car, work for some boss you fucking hate, get home exhausted with no energy to do anything but go to bed so you can do it all again the next day? Now that's soul-crushing.
Sitting at home? Make art! It's what humans do when they have idle time.
It took me years of my life (between part-time jobs and such) to learn how to properly be a NEET, manage my own time, and put effort into meaningful hobbies and projects that bring me life satisfaction and dopamine hits. It really is a skill and it doesn't come naturally to us, especially when our entire lives are spent doing things within the structure of larger institutions like work and school that hand down our tasks to us.
Now I have a full-time job though and it feels pretty good, as much as I've had to put most of my hobbies on the chopping block.
Living with parents is fine and good but personally anytime Ive been a NEET its been living in an absolutely soul rending limbo where time just stops meaning anything real.
Yeah I agree with that. I was out of work for a month and a half once and that wore me down so much
It's been over 2 years now, I'm unemployed and no longer understand how to function as a human.
I don't know if I'll ever be able to reintegrate into society.
You'd be surprised, only take a a couple months to get sucked back into the employment grind once you pick up a job. I was out of work for a year during COVID and got right back in basically overnight when I managed to land a nice office gig. Before that I was unemployed for a year and a half living in a charity home with my mom and siblings, also managed to slide right back into work when I got a job then too.
It can seem daunting when you're in the limbo, but most (at least "entry level" or "service") jobs are full of a ton of people who are working just for the exact amount they need to pay rent and get drunk or participate in hobbies. Made really good friends working with the wretched refuse of society. The proles are alright.
5 years and 2 months here. My hope is that I will be able to get on disability for mental health reasons 🙏
As much as the culturally-instilled guilt and shame of being unemployed (and getting welfare) hurts me, I do not miss my previous jobs and would rather be kicked in the nuts every day than have to work again.
That's what I don't get. All these people saying not working is soul-crushing...huh? Have they even been to work? Get up early, drive a car, work for some boss you fucking hate, get home exhausted with no energy to do anything but go to bed so you can do it all again the next day? Now that's soul-crushing.
Sitting at home? Make art! It's what humans do when they have idle time.
Now I havent been a neet for much more than 6 months but I definitely would prefer it over a real job. Thank god my job is just browsing the internet.
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It took me years of my life (between part-time jobs and such) to learn how to properly be a NEET, manage my own time, and put effort into meaningful hobbies and projects that bring me life satisfaction and dopamine hits. It really is a skill and it doesn't come naturally to us, especially when our entire lives are spent doing things within the structure of larger institutions like work and school that hand down our tasks to us.
Now I have a full-time job though and it feels pretty good, as much as I've had to put most of my hobbies on the chopping block.
I graduated last month and my job doesn't start until the 27th this month and I've been losing my mind a little :agony-shivering:
Also i swear its fucking with my memory