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>>41139493
Me.

>>41139524
Hi cutie

Other than having a job, me

>>41139913
>Other than having a job
Disgusting

>>41139913
Do you know what NEET stands for?

I am in my last days of this stint. I'll probably go back to being a NEET after a while.

four years now. my sorry attempts to be self-employed don't really count. by the time i become proficient at any skill, i will have been replaced by machine-learning ai or civilization will have collapsed. the sense of futility only grows.

Okane...... Onegai.....

I'm currently getting what is basically a sample of NEET life as I'm stuck in a hospital bed with 2 broken legs and have been for weeks. I have no clue how you fuckers can live like this, the complete inaction is driving me absolutely insane

>>41140241
Yes. Despite having a work at home job I have the soul of a NEET.

>>41139493
I'm a full on hiki going on 6 years.

kind of i guess, after i come home from school and work i just stay inside playing games unless i get invited somewhere
wouldn't have it any other way

>>41139493
I spent some time NEET during the lockdowns and hated it after a week or two. A vacation is nice, but I didn't become a biomed engineer to build nothing. And no I can't afford the equipment on my own.

I wish I was. So much.

>>41141049
Holy damn are you actually Satori Komeiji from Touhou Project

Being a NEET is the highest calling a person could have. They should be supported by taxes levied on wagies.

you will kys soon

>>41141907
i think i was supposed to kill myself years ago and now i am experiencing the part of the simulation where everything ends regardless of my actions. it's like the kill screen in donkey kong.

>>41139493
I was one for almost a decade. It really sets you back in ways that will take a very dedicated effort to come across someone with a strong degree of normalcy.

You have any issues staying motivated with your hobbies?
All this free time made me develop a "I'll do it tomorrow" mentality that I have trouble shaking.

>>41143713
I'm getting to a point where I might spend 50% of days working on a hobby to some extent but there are spells where I might not do anything for two months straight. I had to endure years of crushing mental illness to get to this point. The future has never seemed darker for humankind but I am becoming desensitized.

~7 years

I recently left my neet ways but I miss it very much, I would love to go back to it.
>>41141028
I'm sorry anon, what happened to you?

>>41143790
I'm already at that point...at least my hobbies are productive otherwise I think I'd actually kill myself
It also makes family more forgiving of my behavior when they see the fruits of sped labor
>>41143893
Explains a lot about you

>>41139493
Me, but not for much longer. I need money or I'll be homeless.
>>41141033
How are newfags still confusing NEET and hikikomori?
>>41143713
Not really. I've read 50 books this year.

>>41140241
I'm with >>41141033 on this.
Remote work with little to no voice/video interaction required, especially work with a lot of downtime, takes a LOT less out of someone like me who went between being NEET when I could and employed when I couldn't for several years.
You can get up essentially right before work, you have no commute by default, your break/lunch time go a LOT farther, you have much more freedom in choosing where you actually want to live (dependent on internet access and cost of living), and outside of meetings (if any) you are free to dress and present yourself as is most comfortable to you.
Before the work-from-home revolution of 2020 I would more advise someone NEET who needs $$$ to get something like a security guard or <span class="sjis">paid</span> janitor night shift to avoid a good chunk of the pain points of having a job, since full remote work was reserved mostly for very select technical workers who could set their own terms regardless of management's insistence, or the self-employed/contracted who worked independently of them. However, now I'd also seriously advise also looking into remote work if the core transactional nature of performing [work] for [$$$] if actually dedicating a slot of time or performing a certain quota isn't that unbearable by itself.

>>41140284
I'd advise the above. I've actually helped a long-term friend who was just considered "good at computers" get a remote starter job support that ISN'T following a script and dealing with a Sisyphean queue of pissed of callers (wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy). It did require some self-study and experimentation on his part, but even picking up knowledge in stuff like Powershell and bash scripting, Active Directory administration, cloud web console fluency, and (unfortunately due to cost) certifications that a lot places require puts your foot more in the door than you'd think, and doesn't require much creativity. That's just 1 example though.

>>41141907
You want your words to have that effect, don't you?
From what I've read, most people an hero do so due to instability or sudden traumatic events that seem insurmountable. Getting a long jail sentence for the first time, special other breaks up, parents or pets pass unexpectedly, acquiring debt suddenly, getting an immediately life-inhibiting disease or injury, etc. Sure, this can happen to NEETs, but if you think they're the majority of people demographically prone to do so I'd bet you a good dollar they're not.
Even if someone who is a NEET has existential episodes over it, which they may not like myself, that alone is unlikely to result in immediate action since that is more of a constant, gradual rut than a unexpected ravine in life. If someone says they're planning to commit suicide in the future, they likely are just keeping it in mind as an escapist possibility or using it as a call for empathic attention (for the time being at least). Anecdotally most of the long-term online friends I've had that are either fully NEET or NEET when they are still around, if not on the exact same handles or accounts.
There's been more than a few times that I've seen someone abandon their online accounts/handles and seemingly leave without a trace, but from the times people have come back under another handle or just reached out personally their explanation is usually that is just because of some troll/stalker latching on to them, doxxing them, etc. with enough effort and time that it isn't feasible to ignore them. I imagine most anons are pretty thick-skinned about it, but plenty of people unfortunately can't help but give them headspace. If so, starting from relative scratch is the next best thing if you otherwise can't cut them out otherwise. Such is the internet.
The other thing that has happened is that they actually do eke out a non-NEET life to the extent that they get more out of offline life than online. If they don't find unbearable and are being sincere, more power to them.

ワイ、8 years.

>>41144851
Was fucking around in some ruin and the concrete ceiling collapsed. I very much should be dead right now, but I lucked out and got away with a broken hip joint on one side and a completely fucked up lower leg (I needed a muscle transplant and a nail, skin grafts too) on the other. I wont be able to walk until sometime november. It doesn't particularly bother me since I've been risking my life with idiotic stunts for the last few years without consequence, I was basically asking for it.

Fuck it, I'll try being a tripfag. This should be fun.

>>41142363
damn, perfectly put

Lost a job back in spring, but still have enough money to NEET myself for a year at very least(up to 5 years if i pop up my other savings)
Shut-in for 5 years though.

been a shut-in since 2019 aside from having a part-time job as a dishwasher for about a year in 2021. still live with my parents at 28 years old

>>41145095
Woah!

>>41156959
It's a lot of text but after rereading seems easy to parse.

I wanna go back to being a NEET so bad

never had the opportunity to neet, got kicked out of the house for existing and had to earn money
so sad man

NEET 4 LYFE

>be wagecuck
>suffer a lot
>be neet
>suffer less, but still do suffer
still better than being a wageslave but not even living lavishly forever would spare you from aging and disease.
I'm enjoying myself for as long as I can, the moment I see myself forced to work again I'll just blow my head of with my .40 with hollow point bullets.

>>41161740
Don't die dude

>>41161763
we all die in the end, dude.
I just hope I don't come back to this shit world.

since 2015, I keep telling myself I'll go back to college but something always comes up and I miss the deadline.

>>41162063
if you really wanted to, you would have made an effort if not already be in college by now
are you trying to appease someone?

>>41162157
>are you trying to appease someone?
no, I have things outside my circumstances that make traveling difficult so my parents are fine with me leeching off of them

>if you really wanted to, you would have made an effort
true, online courses for local schools have increased since 2020.

>>41139493
I wish. But I do freelance side-gigs so technically no. Can’t get a stable full-time job, though, no one will hire me. I’m hoping to retire by 40 otherwise I’m probably going to kill myself. 17 years of hope and cope to go.