Hikikomori General

[Anonymous No.]

So, are there many hikikomori on /jp/
If so, hikigeneral.

So, how are you funding yourself? I'm selling and buying online, call it investing if you may.
Also, take this wallpaper.

[Anonymous No.]

Leeching off my parents, to lazy to try anything else.

[Anonymous No.]

Government. I'm not a hikki, though, I can step outside just fine.

[Fujiwara no Mokou !!WMmFy7x/tgp No.]

Smoking kills Satou-kun!

[Anonymous No.]

Doing training because I'd be unemployed otherwise, government pays. Basically I'm drawing whatever I like for 6 hours a day, 4 days a week.

I wish I could do this forever.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6458191
I chose to be like this.

leave me alone misaki ;_;

[Anonymous No.]

I have to go out sometimes for doctor appointments, other than that I would probably be one.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6458190
UKfag here.
I'd depend on the government, but the benefits will be cut, and I will be left poor as hell.

[Anonymous No.]

I have five months left to live from my parents.

What should I do to take the most advantage from this time?

[Anonymous No.]

I havent left my house in two months.

Feels good man.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6458212
>I havent left my house in two months.
You're smalltime.

[Anonymous No.]

I would like to be a hikikomori, but I actually have a life. feels bad.

[Anonymous No.]

I tried being a hikikomori for a while, didn't work out.

Not due to parents or anything, but I just grew sick of locking myself up all the time.

[Anonymous No.]

The speeches my mother gives me about getting a job have gone from monthly to daily. I'm seriously considering asking her to take me to see a psychiatrist at this point.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6458209
I'm in a similar situation.
What I think you should do is just lay in bed and refresh /jp/!
I mean honestly, what could be better than that?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6458230

I don't know, play some other VNs so you can expand your knowledge and enjoy /jp/ more?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6458227

My mother used to do the same thing, eventually she just gave up for some reason.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6458227
I already took the next step and asked. Nothing came of it. Partly because we are poor, and partly because my mother would rather go into denial about me being a piece of shit.

[Anonymous No.]

Government is paying me to study whatever useless crap i want. The classes are about three times a week and I've even got my own room to isolate me in. Feels pretty good man.

[Anonymous No.]

You guys actually believe in psychiatry?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6458248

I believe in self - treatment, not in that "talking makes everything better" crap.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6458248
I believe in neuroscience and better living through chemistry, yes.

[Anonymous No.]

I spent whole summer locked up eating all day playin touhou and gained 10 kg and hated myself. Then I got out and started running and lost all that weight. I don't socialize, but I do enjoy being outside sometimes.
I just can't be hikikomori because I get fat and I hate getting fat.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6458258

You can make exercise at home you know, I have a garden, and nobody sees me there.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6458248
People don't change. I'm not even quoting that one forced drama television series; it's just something I discovered for myself. So nope, I don't believe in all that bullcrap and I think it's a waste of time.

[Fujiwara no Mokou !!WMmFy7x/tgp No.]

What NHK character do you relate to the most? For me, I'm definitely Misaki.

[Anonymous No.]

Just got another $7500 in the mail from my software development gig over the internet. It's great, barely have to even work (because I'm an expert programmer and can get work done real quick) and I get paid loads.

Thinking about getting a GTX 580, but I'll wait to see what the HD 6970 is like.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6458269
>asking /jp/ to what NHK character they relate the most
Really now.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6458269
Definitely Misaki. And my boyfriend is Sato. I even made him watch the show because their story was so similar to ours.

[Anonymous No.]

I need to take a dump, but too lazy to get up to go to the bathroom. Thinking about just unloading it in my pants.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6458268
People who are led along easily do change, provided they're constantly given a reason to do something.

[Fujiwara no Mokou !!WMmFy7x/tgp No.]

>>6458281
Of course! It's TruNEET vs Eroge/Doujin enthusiast! Or Suicide Sempai vs MMORPG-flavor-of-the-month experiencer!

I wonder if there are any other Misakis like me?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6458269
Senpai's boyfriend.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6458275
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0HTTRMzxZk&t=4m39s

Another day has gone by, like nothing. My life is slipping away.

[Anonymous No.]

I haven't legitimately left my house in around ten years. Of course I've left late at night to get cigarettes, booze, and food. I work from home as a writer and programmer. It's pretty sweet, and if I work my ass off hard enough, I can take around three month vacations.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6458286
All I see on /jp/ are neckbeards afraid of leaving their houses, seriously.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6458286
I'm a total loser like Yamazaki, except ugly, without girls or friends like Sato, constantly in a bad/depressed mood like Suicide Sempai and nowhere near as enthusiastic about doujinshi/visual novels

[Anonymous No.]

>>6458275
That's amazing. What language(s) / frameworks do you work with?

[Anonymous No.]

A lot of the people in this thread are NEETs. No offense, bros.

I don't think i've ever been hikki. Just NEET and varying degrees of social retardation. I'm getting a lot better these days due to psychology, and due to be picking up volunteer work again as soon as people get back to me over it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6458324
NEET is really more of a showing of a bad economy than anything.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6458315
Mostly C, C++, Objective-C and Java. I do a lot of iPhone and Android development for clients. Going rate is $12000-$20000 for around 6-8 weeks of work. Then I just take it easy until the next fat contract comes around.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6458324
Not a NEET. I attend university. Its classes then back inside. dont know what that makes me though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6458301
how did you getting in to working from home as a programmer
I am about to finish my cs degree and am interested in doing this, any tips on finding consistent work online?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6458334
Well that's really cool Anon, congratulations.

[Anonymous No.]

I must admit i'm new to this hikki stuff. I mean, i thought they were all fake or exaggerated versions of truth. But it seems you guys are fo' real.
This kinda makes me sad. I would really love to meet you guys, but i'm sure I'd hate 90% of you irl.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6458340
Places like rentacoder to start. Don't expect to be able to support yourself for the first six or so months, you may need a regular part time job to subsidize yourself, until you build up your portfolio and list of regular customers. Then you can cut yourself loose from those sites which take a cut of your revenue, and just work directly for your regular customers.

You also need to shell out money for a development mac, development license, and mobile hardware for the platforms you're developing for, so there's some overhead there.

[Fujiwara no Mokou !!WMmFy7x/tgp No.]

>>6458348
Why, do you look down on shy socially extremely introverted people?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6458340
See,
>>6458354
Also, my father was vice-president of a big computer company, so he helped me to establish some ties with clients. Once you start doing big projects and getting your name out there, it's not that hard. But in the beginning it's pretty hellish.

[Anonymous No.]

I graduated earlier this year, and I'm in the same boat as >>6458206

Dependent on state welfare (I'm unemployed) and my parents (I give them some of my welfare payments). I've been looking for a job since July, so I'm not a 'NEET', just an unemployed loser. The government is planning on a) cutting back on welfare (especially unemployment welfare, the UK HATES the unemployed) and b) making them work 30-hour unpaid job placements with the government to prevent from being cut off welfare. (that way, they get to fire all of their unskilled government workers, and get them to do their former jobs for free) The welfare is £52 a week so I could never live apart from my parents until I get a job.

Pic related, the story of my life.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6458363
If you have a good degree why don't you go into teaching?

That seems pretty easy to get into.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6458355
No. I am like that many times. And I know many introverted ppl tend to act agressively to stangers entering their environment, sometimes in a childish manner or as in "I know more than you do, faggot" way. Other than that, i'm okay.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6458375
I don't have a degree.

By graduate I meant from sixth form, it was for the benefit of our American friends who seem to refer to leaving high school as graduation

I also have no work experience, I'm pretty much unemployable. These days, if you don't have an astounding career on paper, or friends who already work there, you can't get hired.

[Fujiwara no Mokou !!WMmFy7x/tgp No.]

>>6458380
Ugh, sadly that's true. I'm the complete opposite however! I just want to be nice to everyone who shares the same hobbies as me, since so many seem lonely and I want to make them happier! Hugs for everyone!

[Anonymous No.]

I just got a transfer admission guarantee from my community college to UCSD. Feels good, man.

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>>6458392
I call bullshit on that, unless you live in the boonies.
If you have a stable enough personality, pretty much anyone can get some kind of minimum wage job in the city. And if you're young and healthy? Even easier.
Whether you can actually live on that minimum wage is another matter entirely, though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6458363
Maybe you can try volunteering somewhere both to practice dealing with people and also get some "customer service" experience on your resume.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6458301
>I can take around three month vacations.
>I haven't legitimately left my house in around ten years.
Could be worse, I guess.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6458392
I have no work experience either, so being in my third year of university having nothing on my CV when other people here already have jobs at Goldman Sachs, etc. lined up really sucks.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6458348
It's for real. I'm the software developer doing the iphone/android stuff from home. I had a nervous breakdown and dropped out of university in my third year. Spent some time on streets, ended up going to a psychiatric ward for a while. After that, I was on welfare and disability, and lived in my apartment for 2 years, completely cut off. I'm a diagnosed schizoid.

During that time in my apartment, I acquired some new computer hardware and started programming again as a hobby, and eventually worked my way into contract work over the internet. Now I've got a lot of savings and supporting myself into old age seems more realistic.

I still barely leave my apartment, I have zero friends outside of my work-related acquaintances and no family. Once in a while, I go on a business trip to meet a customer, but that's about it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6458407

I don't understand this "practice" idea, it seems like it doesn't really apply to interaction. I've tried rearranging my thought process a million different ways to not be terrified of people, but nothing's ever improved. If anything, it gets harder the more you do it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6458406
Haha, nope.

I live not only in England, but in the North of England. After we outsourced all of our manufacturing to China, the government had to step in to prevent mass unemployment. Somewhere around 60% of people around here are employed by the government.

There's very little where I live (Leeds) beyond services for those people, and financial institutions. I have been applying for anything I think I might qualify for; that is mainly the minimum wage jobs you mention. The local government isn't hiring and will soon be making massive cutbacks. Local unemployment is 10%, I believe (no source, just something I rember hearing) and it's only so low because it's being propped up by the government.

>>6458407
See, that's what I thought, but it turns out volunteering is competitive as hell too. All the high school and university students have cottoned on to the fact that they're not going to get hired without experience so they have also filled voluntary positions. The only volunteering opportunities I've been able to find required degrees (they were apprenticeships to do stuff like accounting).

[Anonymous No.]

>>6458436
Pfft, there's nothing in this world that you can't get better in with practice.

I'm just glad I was born with a knack for acting though, I can actually act social and easygoing even when I'm honestly beta as fuck and scared of people. It's the reason I'm afraid of talking to people I don't know on the telephone, it's too difficult to fake being a nice guy if I can't see them.

[Anonymous No.]

24YO, no work experience and a drop out.
Don't have a very good personality either.
No jobs, anywhere.

Yeah, I admit I didn't make the best decisions in life.

My life being living hell until my mother divorced when I was 12 turning me into an introvert wasn't my choice though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6458436
Unfortunately I can't help you too much there, not having that much experience with it myself. Do you get socially anxious just by, say, buying groceries and interacting with the cashier?

>>6458439
Nothing, really? No hospital volunteering, no Red Cross, no park cleanup, nothing? I can't imagine a situation in which nobody can make use of some extra unpaid labor.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6458464
Nope. Park cleanup is handled by the government, who have everyone they need and will shortly be sacking them all anyway so that people on unemployment welfare can be made to do it for free. I'm not sure what hospital volunteering would entail but I'm pretty sure that would be full up with people who expect to be studying medicine when they go to university. I've applied to volunteer at numerous charity shops, and to do admin at charitable organizations, but they've already got everyone they can handle. It's possible that there may be positions on the other side of the city which I haven't checked out, but since that would require three separate bus journeys to get to work and back it's not really worth it to do it for free.

I've also been applying to part-time work; even shitty little stuff like two-hour a week cleaning jobs. No dice.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6458422
I want you to know, anon, that you're my hero.
I used to do contract work from home too, it didn't go so well, but you're inspiring me to try again.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6458439
Hey, UK has a way lower unemployment rate than my country, so that in itself isn't that bad.Which is why we're stealing your jobs, sorry about that.
But yeah, I heard it's pretty rough up north, so you're out of luck. Just keep trying to land an entry level job, even shitty experience(like "would you like fries with that" kinda shity) is sometimes better than no experience at all.
I know that I couldn't deal with customers, and I couldn't do physically taxing work, so my pool of jobs is a bit more limited - luckily situation in my city is surprisingly good, getting a minimum wage job would be a breeze even with those conditions. But minimum wage really is almost nothing here, and jobs above that are hard to find.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6458455
Oh wow, I'm kind of like this. For me it was either get out of the house or get a job or go back to college. I chose college.

I thought it'd be horrible, and it is, but not in the way I thought it'd be at first. I hate people, when the phone rings I get scared and don't pick up, people at the door? Fuck no.

But in class people think I'm alpha and there's girls around me even. This kind of disgusts me but at least people don't fuck with me. I guess it's really true. Act like an ass, get pussy. But still, forever a virgin.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6458397
Hikki here

I haven't left the house in five years
Next month I'll start the process of catching up on my education by getting my HS degree from community college and then getting a transfer to a university after two years in community college.
It's such a long road ahead and I really don't like it

too scary/unknown

[Anonymous No.]

how old are all you guys?

i always imagined /jp/ having the oldest losers, with /v/, /b/, /a/ having the youngest tards

[Anonymous No.]

>>6458547
Second Britfag here, I think I implied/said it in an earlier post but I'm 18, going on 19 in December.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6458547
29, although I have a feeling I'm towards the upper bound.

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>>6458547
If you pay attention in all the threads where people mention age, you'll find all the boards are about the same really. Even /v/ /b/ and /a/ have a surprising amount of people claiming to be late 20s / early 30s. Of course the majority on every board seem to be teenagers, or at least they're the ones that post the much.

I'm 24 myself.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6458547
21 drop out from mechatronics (i studied for 3 years and was very good in fact, but working in a big corporation is not my thing and there's virtualy no other job available for that career). I now study literature. Also, isn't this cancer?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6458863
Why would it be? There was a time when /jp/ had a strong sense of community. Surely /jp/ has much greater issues to address than a single, properly condensed, friendly NEET / hikki discussion thread.