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>> No.11146233

I want a browning hi-power

>> No.11146281

i have about 50 bucks on me

>> No.11146315
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fix you're glasses retard

>> No.11146488

I don't money.

>> No.11146513
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I have 30k

>> No.11146670

>>11146513
Is /jp/ really this poor?

>> No.11146675

>>11146670
i have 2k

>> No.11146687

>>11146513
I have 30k in rupees

>> No.11146761

>>11146670
>30k of mostly disposable income in the bank is poor
really.

>> No.11146774
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>> No.11146800

>>11146761
How are you going to afford a house or support a family?

I have around 600k that has slowly piled up over the years since I haven't had anything to spend it on.

>> No.11146810
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>>11146800
i'm a virgin and don't foresee that changing any time soon, so neither of those are issues, or likely will be issues ever.

30k is pretty decent savings for less than two years of saving.

>> No.11146814

I keep enough to afford 2 monthly payments on my rent. Everything else I spend on figurines and manga.

>> No.11146816

>>11146810
That took you 2 years? I have only been working for 5.

>> No.11146819

I have less than $100 at this point

things aren't looking too good financially

>> No.11146823
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>>11146816
I wasn't aware it was a competition

>> No.11146833

>>11146823
It's not, I was just shocked to find out /jp/ was that poor. I figured 600k in 5 years was around average.

>> No.11146837

I have 5 Ferraris and 5 million in cash money literally right next to me. Oh yeah. Be jealous.

>> No.11146840

>>11146833
Hard to save money as a NEET. You're in the minority here.

>> No.11146852

>>11146833
>over 100k a year is average
your 1% is showing.

>> No.11146858

You saved 600 thousand over the past 5 years
that means you're making at least 100 thousand a year
while living with your parents, because you obviously have no expenses
cool story bro

>> No.11146877

>>11146858
Isn't that what everyone does?

>> No.11146882

>>11146877
Most people are lucky to earn 10-15k a year

>> No.11146888

>>11146882
I didn't realize /jp/ worked at McDonalds.

>> No.11146890

>>11146833
I saved up 10K in two years and I thought I was sitting pretty. That's, like, enough for an Associate's Degree.

>> No.11146896

>>11146888
/jp/ isn't all that privileged

>> No.11146897

>>11146888
That would require people skills.

>> No.11146911

so you're telling us you're so sheltered you had no idea most people don't have half a million in the bank, and expect us to believe you have the skills/connections necessary to be making 100k a year

just what is it that you do?

>> No.11146909

>>11146896
An office job is considered privileged?

How do you NOT get a decent paying job?

>> No.11146913

>>11146909
You're obviously living out some delusion. Normals have issues finding work, how do you expect NEETs that dislikes spending time around strangers to do so?

>> No.11146916

>>11146909
this is bait

>> No.11146918

>>11146909
My office job paid $8.04 per hour, which is $0.79 over minimum wage and they never gave raises. If the low hourly rate wasn't bad enough, they also kept running out of hours to give everyone. What makes you think office work is high paying?

>> No.11146920

>>11146909
Blue collar jobs pay well. It's the work conditions and long hours that people hate.

>> No.11146923
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>>11146918
>minimum wage
>"ran out of hours to give everyone"

I dont think your definition of an office job is the same as mine

>> No.11146931

>>11146909
As someone who was only ever able to get shitty manual labor jobs because I don't have any connections... Office jobs are very privileged.

>> No.11146934

>>11146923
Well, we weren't flipping burgers, we were doing office work. Mostly data entry.

>> No.11146936

>>11146911
Software engineering.

>>11146913
How? I just went to school as my parents decided and at the end I had a job.

I thought /jp/ was good at mindlessly doing meneial tasks.

>> No.11146937

>>11146923
It was the backOFFICE of at my local Burger King. That counts as an OFFICE job.

>> No.11146946

>>11146936
Sure, it's easy when your parents are obviously as well connected as yours are. Most people don't get a job right out of college, much less even have the money for college to begin with.

>> No.11146952

>>11146946
They aren't? My mother is unemployed and my father is retired and they are just as unsociable as me.

>> No.11146953

>>11146936
It would have been more believable if you had told us you were a nuclear or aeronautical engineer.

>> No.11146954
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>tfw I spend ~$400/mo living alone as a NEET
>tfw I take the bare minimum of online classes so I don't have to pay back loans
>tfw ppl say I'm not a NEET

>> No.11146960

>>11146954
Who are you quoting? Also, you're not a NEET.

>> No.11146964

>>11146954
The second E, it's education.

>> No.11146965

>>11146960
If you sign up for college and don't actually attend any classes or spend any time studying you are still a NEET.

>> No.11146966

>>11146952
Right, you just got that job when the magic job fairy visited you one night. Sure. I bet your Dad owns the software firm you work for.

>> No.11146976

>>11146965
If you're enrolled in college, you're not a NEET. Sorry to break it to you.

>> No.11146983

>>11146960
>>11146964
But I get more education sitting on my toilet than from the classes.

>> No.11146993

>>11146983
It doesn't have to be effective education, just formal.

>> No.11146999

If I'm training to be the strongest NEET does that mean I'm not a NEET at all since I'm training?

>> No.11147005

>>11146966
Work experience is part of college? The place I went to hired me before I even graduated. It was the same case for everyone else in my class.

>> No.11147000

>>11146954
>student loans
you are literally ruining your life
stop while you still can

>> No.11147001

>>11146976
No, because you're not actually doing anything.
of course sooner or later you're going to get kicked out, but still.
I lived like this for a while, I shut myself in the apartment my parents rented for me and did nothing but browse 4chan, watch anime play videogames until they found out and took me home. Best 8 months of my life. Pure bliss

>> No.11147007

>>11147001
>No, because you're not actually doing anything.

You mean like many other people in education and employment? Nobody specified it had to be gainful employment or education.

>> No.11147008

>>11146993
But it's not formal. I spend more time on the toilet in a week then I do on these "classes", which mostly consist of open-book multiple choice quizzes and google.

>> No.11147013

>>11147005
In this economy? Did you class consist of two people or something?

>> No.11147016

>>11147001
NEET is a classification. You can't be NEET if you're enrolled in college.

>> No.11147018

>>11147000
I'm just waiting for hyperinflation to kick in and make my loans worthless.

I could always simply move to another country like my uncle did. He's in Portugal right now.

>> No.11147022

>>11147008
You formally enrolled in a college. If you were just doing multiple choice quizzes for fun, you would be a NEET.

>> No.11147026

>>11147018
>He's in Portugal right now.
Into le frying pan

>> No.11147028

>>11147018
That's the most pathetic embezzlement scheme ever.

>> No.11147029

>>11147013
What do you mean?

>> No.11147030

>>11147007
I'd say it depends, on a case by case basis.
give me some examples.

>> No.11147036

>>11147022
I don't think what I'm doing is anyone's idea of a formal education.

If I say I'm a NEET then I'm a NEET. I suggest you learn to deal with it.

>> No.11147045
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>>11147036
I dont think you can fit in with a crowd by doing things counter to their belief system and just say "well im one of you anyways, deal with it"

that is not how the world works

>> No.11147039

>>11147029
I find it difficult to believe that an entire class year found employment right after school when the job market is this piss poor.

>> No.11147041

>>11147028
It's not a scheme, it's just my way of flipping off the bankers who trashed the country.

>> No.11147044

>>11147016
NEET is a lifestyle. And sometimes you need to pretend you're doing something with your life to squeeze more time off from your parents and or the government.

>> No.11147046

>>11147036
You're a phony.

>> No.11147047

>>11147036
NEET is a government classification used in statistics. It means a specific thing and you aren't it.

>> No.11147053

>>11147044
>NEET is a lifestyle
Yes, it is
Gay is also a lifestyle. But if you're fucking women and find men sexually grotesque, then you're not gay no matter how much you kick and scream that you are gay.

>> No.11147056

>>11147039
It's only piss poor for diamond dozen people looking for unskilled minimum wage jobs. Hiring them is equivalent to welfare.

If you actually have some useful talents then there are jobs waiting for you.

>> No.11147057

>>11147041
You aren't flipping them off, you are giving them an excuse to wreck the economy more since the government is just going to bail them out again.

>> No.11147064
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>>11147045
>>11147046
>>11147047
SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP

I'VE BEEN CALLING MYSELF A NEET FOR FAR TOO LONG NOW TO TAKE IT BACK

>> No.11147065

>>11147056
At this point it is fairly obvious you are an undergrad.

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>>11147057
>the government is just going to bail them out again.

Not my government.

>> No.11147074

>>11147053
What a shitty comparison. Staying home all day for a prolonged period of time without any obligations to attend to makes you a NEET irregardless of what you wrote in a piece of paper months before.

>> No.11147087

>>11147074
Not Engage in Education means you are not enrolled or planning to enroll in any type of educational program. If you're in enrolled in one sorry, you're a writeoff.

>irregardless
I suggest you stop now, you are making it worse.

>> No.11147099

>>11147087
Not in Education means you're not studying.

>> No.11147101

>>11147087
Did they tell you not to say irregardless in your English class, normie?

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>>11147065
MSc in CS, actually.

Would you like me to compile an algorithm for finding skilled workers who are out of work from the Bureau of Labor's database?

>> No.11147108

>>11147099
Are you saying that shitty high school students are NEETs?

>> No.11147115

>>11147101
I think he just hates Americanisms.

>> No.11147119
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>>11147099
>Not in Education means you're not studying.
if that was the case then I'm full NEET because, despite having a job and being in school, I'm not currently at work or school.

you CAN'T be serious.

>> No.11147124

>>11147099
But I'm a NEET and I'm studying with free online classes like MIT's OpenCourseWare.

Paying to go to college is just dumb these days.

>> No.11147154

>>11147108
depends.
are they getting up every morning (or at least regularly), getting dressed, leaving their homes, attending classes and taking exams?
if you're enrolled in HS, the school year has already started and you haven't been doing any of this for a while, I'd consider you a NEET.

>> No.11147155

>>11147104
You can say whatever you want, I stopped believing you about five posts back.

>> No.11147164

>>11147119
You still have obligations to attend to regularly, so I don't consider you a NEET.

>> No.11147166

>>11147155
I would just like to point out that you aren't talking to the same person anymore.

>> No.11147172

Do lolis like NEET guys?

>> No.11147176

>>11147172
Yes

>> No.11147179

>>11147172
They prefer men who can buy them things.

>> No.11147182

It makes me angry when awkward EET scum pretends to be NEET and basically stomps all over the honor of the truNEET way by doing so.

The ancestors weep

>> No.11147195

Who lazyEET here

I make $1000 a week to shitpost on /jp/ and watch anime at work.

Its pretty hard and tiring work but im well on my goal to buy a new sports car with the money :)

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>>11147166
Pretty sure we morphed into one when I took on your argument with this homo.

>> No.11147200

>>11147195
Do you drive?

>> No.11147202

>>11147195
I was like that before they fired my ass. Just replace week with over two months.

>> No.11147208

>>11147195
I hate lazy normalfags
Do your work!

>> No.11147212

>>11147208
If you realized how banal and pointless work is, you would be lazy, too.

>> No.11147221

>>11147212
Its not pointless. You're being paid because you are making money for someone else. You need to work hard so you can pay for the actual NEETs out there that depend on you for support.

Unlike truNEETs lazy normals don't bring any philosophical or theological value to the world. Your daddy got you that job so you could start a family and go drinkin with ur buds on fridays.

>> No.11147223

>>11147200
I enjoy driving, so yes.

>>11147202
You must be not American, even scamming SSI gets you $800-1000 a month.

>>11147208
My work forces me to take it easy, gomenasai /jp/

>> No.11147232

>>11147223
I'm not going to defraud SSI. I don't even know how to, even if I wanted.

>> No.11147236

>>11147221
>work for the government
>they're not making money, they're just wasting it

>> No.11147238

>>11147179
What if I'm a NEET with money? Will they find that attractive?

>> No.11147243

>>11147221
>You need to work hard so you can pay for the actual NEETs out there that depend on you for support.

It's not that hard to get tax exempt from making too little income.

>> No.11147246

>>11147236
As long as the guy directly above you is making money, who cares.

>> No.11147249

>>11147243
Or work as a 1099 and avoid paying into unemployment and disability/SSI

>> No.11147250

>>11147243
$1000 a week doesn't sound like too little income to me

>> No.11147261

>>11147250
It's determined after deductions, so if you have some really expensive health care and other bennies it might be.

>> No.11147269

>>11147223
>You must be not American, even scamming SSI gets you $800-1000 a month.
I wish I knew how

I'm not black.

>> No.11147272

>>11147261
No, it won't
$1000 a week is a small fortune in my area

>> No.11147279

>>11146800
>tfw barely $500 in the bank and $2,000 in truck repairs are needed on my vehicle
;_;

>> No.11147288

>>11147279
Cute, will you be my girlfriend? I will buy you a new truck.

>> No.11147342
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>>11147279
Should have gotten a bike.

>> No.11147355

>>11147342
Might well just jump in front of a train, it would save you time and be just as safe.

>> No.11147356

>>11147342
And end up like this guy? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZUpvU3gwp8

No thanks

>> No.11147365

>>11147356
That won't happen, trust me.

>> No.11147381

Stop living in fear of your own shadow, pussy.

>> No.11147390

>>11147381 to >>11147355
typo

>> No.11147402

>>11147355
It's not that dangerous. Plus, it gets you lolis.

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>>11147356
Stay out of the towns or just ignore people.

>> No.11147513

>>11147390
I knew someone who participated in a race where the participants are electrocuted until they fall unconscious and even he thinks motorcycles are too dangerous.

>> No.11147522

>>11147513
Who cares when you're surrounded by lolis.

>> No.11147529

>>11147522
>>11147402
I've seen biker gangs before and they aren't filled with lolis.

>> No.11147533

>>11147529
You need to join a loli gang.

>> No.11147577
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I thought I was almost broke, then I opened my secret stash
>mfw

>> No.11147602

>>11147513
How did that happen?

>> No.11147647

>>11147602
http://www.toughguy.co.uk/What_Is_ToughGuy.php

>> No.11147650

>>11147533
I can only imagine a pedophile biker gang. It would be hilarious.

>> No.11147791

>>11147650
I would join it in a heartbeat.

>> No.11151134

>>11146999

truNeet lets the strength of the NEET come to them as they take it easy

>> No.11151166

I have a hundred dollars
but it's cash so it's just as useful to me as monopoly money

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