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8221268 No.8221268 [Reply] [Original]

Been unemployed for exactly 3 years this Thursday.
Feels I don't know man.
You feel like your life is just flying by?

>> No.8221273

have a friend in a similar position, she's a certified EMT, yet can't get work

>> No.8221277
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8221277

who neet here :)))

>> No.8221280

Who gives a shit go back to /a/.

>> No.8221286
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>> No.8221296

been unemployed for over 4 years and even then i only worked for like 3 months, and before that was unemployed for about another 3 or 4 years, feels good man

>> No.8221300

your so moe OP

>> No.8221303
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8221303

>Been unemployed for exactly 3 years

You're small time, OP.

>> No.8221308

>>8221286
God, that pic always gets me

>> No.8221312

I left school at 14 and basically didn't leave the house until I was about 22. Made a couple of friends and one of them offered me a job because he needed help basically. That was a year ago and he went insane this year but I still stayed on.

Going to be NEET again soon. When they get me to do an order I'm going to buy a full pallet of leeks to get fired.

>> No.8221322

>>8221312
Go out with style, motherfucker

>> No.8221330

I've never been employed.

Graduated high school (early) about three years ago now.

Feels good, man.

>> No.8221336

>>8221286
>>8221308
Really? But I never think the real me is just asleep or anything. I just judge that there's nothing better I can do with my life, given the situation.

It's really more an argument against employment... Toiling away for nothing.

>> No.8221339

>>8221286
4 years unemployed after high school, joined the military. this is basically why I started to do something with myself. even if I'm fighting for the jews, I'm doing something which is more than most of you can say

>> No.8221348

>>8221339
Pretty sure doing something bad is worse than doing nothing at all, champ.

Good job caving into that societal pressure, though. Doesn't make you seem even more pathetic or anything. No, sir.

>> No.8221350

I work at a large IT-company and make more money than the average dutchmen.

You jealous?

>> No.8221351

i wish i could live alone

>> No.8221360

>>8221350
Last time I held an IT job it was the most horrible thing ever. So no.

>> No.8221365

Don't worry, everyone will be starving to death in another month or two once the US defaults and the Eurozone collapses triggering a Great Depression II.

>> No.8221369

I'm 25 and I live with my parents... I dropped out of uni in June and haven't had a job since and I get benefits from the government (Job Seeker's Allowance). Do I want to get a job? yes and no. Yes because of the money and what it would allow me to buy and no because I would have to interact with people.

I'm a man child? yes.

>> No.8221371

>Toiling away for nothing.

Earning a wage to live and having the dignity of being independent are nothing?

>> No.8221373

>>8221371
The amount you put in you get far less. Also, being distracted by stupid societal shit that makes you forget who you are.

Fuck dignity.

>> No.8221374

>>8221373
You don't stop being who you are just because you're talking to someone else.

>> No.8221375

>>8221371
Dignity? Independent? You're still relying on your society to provide everything for you. The only difference is that it's all on your society's terms rather than your own. In that way, it's even less dignified, really.

>> No.8221379

>>8221371
I'd rather be a wage slave than a NEET, but it's idiotic to pretend there's any real dignity in being a low level worker who'll never have the social skills to ascend any higher.

>> No.8221383

>>8221374
You know the way you behave in a group is different right? But that isn't what I meant anyway.

Getting a job, paying rent/mortgage, paying off a car etc etc all of these debts you are basically forced into taking (for the most part) will distract you enough to make you forget what you want. People have midlife crisis for a reason.

>> No.8221385

>>8221375
That's pretty much completely backwards. Society provides for the unemployed entirely on society's society's terms. In comparison, working people get to dictate a lot more.

>> No.8221387

>>8221383
Right now I have a shitload of free time and I don't know what I want at all. Rent, you have to pay anyway, and you aren't going to break your back paying 4K for a vehicle if you have a job.

>> No.8221390

>>8221387
Well, good luck. I've seen my dad get crushed after being "successful" and it isn't worth it.

You might be OK with it now, but if you're relying on having a job and being a good member of society for your dignity and worth you will end up headfucked.

>> No.8221393

you're not alone OP, same here... I know the feel ;_;

>> No.8221394

>>8221385
No, not really. I pretty much just walk in and tell the government to give me money. Then it does. Then I spend it however I want while doing whatever I want with my entire day. Forever.

If you're employed, you have to follow all social rules in a social setting for only scarcely short of a majority of your waking hours. If you're lucky. And you'll probably be fired immediately if you make any decisions that aren't socially acceptable... Even things as simple as wearing an earring without being female can get you fired. And this is assuming you manage to get a job in the first place--you have to go through a hell of a lot of effort to market yourself to potential employers, after all, since they're basically purchasing you as slave labor.

>> No.8221401

>>8221394
If you work forty hours a week and sleep eight hours a day that's barely a third of your waking hours. And it's not slavery if you get paid, by definition.

I don't qualify for government money so for me it's a moot point anyway.

>> No.8221408

>Independent? You're still relying on your society to provide everything for you.

Independent as in independent from your parents. They no longer provide for you and you're responsible for supporting yourself but you have the freedom to live your life how you want within your means.

>> No.8221409

>>8221401

If you live in a western country it's neigh impossible that you aren't eligible for something. Hell, I guarantee any fucker who has a little social anxiety can get SSI.

>> No.8221410

>>8221401
>If you work forty hours a week and sleep eight hours a day that's barely a third of your waking hours
Your use of "barely" is dishonest, but I suppose I can give you the rest of that. Definitely an idealization of the situation, though.

>it's not slavery if you get paid, by definition
A definition supplied to you by your owners. Funny, that.

>> No.8221413

>>8221408
I can do that anyway and my parents pay for electricity, water, heating, food, drive me places etc. I have it pretty lucky I guess.

>> No.8221417

>>8221409
There isn't a psychologist alive who would declare me unfit to flip burgers.

>>8221410
Two and a half percent more than a third of your waking hours. I'm sorry for using the definition that the entire world uses instead of your own personal one.

>> No.8221419

>>8221417
The real difference is I don't really find it burdensome to conform to society's expectations. I had to conform to the expectations of my parents for many years and society's expectations are ten times lesser than those were.

>> No.8221421

>>8221417
Seriously, I would rape the system a thousand times over before flipping burgers. I don't care how selfish or lazy this is, I refuse to spend my time doing shit like that for minimum wage.

>> No.8221420

>>8221410

HURP if you want to be a lazy fuck and collect NEET gold go on ahead but don't bitch about being oppressed just because you don't feel like making an honest buck.

If things get desperate we'll see who's a slave to who when the government can't feed it's pets anymore.

>> No.8221425

>>8221420
Hah, you are cute~

>> No.8221426

>>8221420
Yeah that's never going to happen.

>> No.8221427

>>8221421
I can't do that. I hate being a burden on people.

>> No.8221430

>>8221426

Normalcy bias. I'm sure they were saying the same thing in 1929.

>> No.8221433

God damnit you people are still wallowing in your depression in this thread? Fuck off already.

>> No.8221448

I'm surprised no one is claiming OP is squidy...

Hi squiddy!

>> No.8221449

>>8221448
Hi to you too, squiddy.

>> No.8221476

shut up and post Akarin porn

>> No.8221486
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My benefits got changed last week, apparently I ave to work 30 hours a week for £2 p/h which is 1/3 of the minimum p/h wage.
Slave labor man, slave labor.
Joke's on them though, I refused to give my consent for them to pass on my details which is within my rights.
I pretty much put the brakes on that scheme dudes.

>> No.8221490

Been employed for exactly 3 years next month

LIFE IS STILL FLYING BY

IT DOESN'T SLOW DOWN WHEN YOU'RE DOING IT RIGHT

LIFE IS FUCKING SHORT OH MY GOD

>> No.8221491

I buy my groceries from Amazon.

Here's a deal on Raisin Bran:

http://www.amazon.com/Kelloggs-Raisin-Bran-Cereal-20-Ounce/dp/B002DHNBAO/

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>>8221486
you stopped them

>> No.8221501
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>>8221476
Get out punk!

>> No.8221520

History of my lately day:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GCyMtNl8T8

I don't enjoy anything anymore, and I'm just procrastinating my suicide. Life sucks, shit sucks.

>> No.8221526

Why am I here when I could already be in Gensokyo?
Oh, yes, it's because I still have internet connection and a computer. The day this changes, I'll just open a portal. Life is a joke.

>> No.8221540

Guy at the Job Center said I had to sign the form (which says on it you don't have to sign) as proof that I had been in and discussed the change. The guy was blatantly lying to me, trying to trick me into signing away my personal details - I told him that he had committed an offense by misleading me and he went quiet.
Talked about owned man.

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>>8221540
Oh no, forgot my image.

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8221553

I wouldn't say my life is flying by. It's going painfully slow, actually.
>>8221520
>Procrastinate my suicide
Hey, that's actually... exactly the truth. Hmm.

>> No.8221558

Applied for Jobseeker's Allowance last month and got a letter yesterday saying I won't be getting it because the "law says we cannot pay you." That is so vague and stupid I have no idea what it's supposed to mean, so I guess I'll phone up tomorrow.

>> No.8221577

Laid off and was unemployed for years while trying to find a new job. Tried to kill myself numerous times only to have some asshole save me each time. Apparently, the EMTs will still resuscitate an obvious suicide and assholes (of the non-EMT variety) will still try to bring you back to life even if you obviously tried to end it. Stupid fuckers should just look at an obvious suicide and deny care. I really enjoyed being billed for it over and over again, and bitching at the hospital about it.

>> No.8221585

>>8221577
Assholes.

They shouldn't be allowed to charge you for doing something they've done by force.

>> No.8221586

>>8221540
I've gone in to fish assholes out of the Job Centers before. Seriously, the ones around here have some people who do some shady things. There are some great people who work there, but there are also some who are trying to scam the less fortunate. If you live in my state, you are paying me to do this, as well (or would be if you actually had a job).

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8221590

akarin is mega kawaii

>> No.8221593 [DELETED] 

>>8221577

Do it the right way, retard. Jump of a tall building, and make sure you land on your head. But I'll agree with you that those retards saving your life should be fired. Suicide should be a constitutional right.

>> No.8221595

>>8221585
That is what I told them. They asked me who I thought should be responsible since I was the one who had the services done to them. I told them that I didn't want the services and they could take them back. They told me I would be dead, and I told them that was the point. If they wanted to bill someone bill the asshole who dragged my body in here.

>> No.8221598

>>8221577
Do it the right way, retard. Jump off a tall building, and make sure you land on your head. But I'll agree with you that those retards saving your life should be fired. Suicide should be a constitutional right.

>> No.8221601

>>8221598
I know right, what an attention seeker.

>> No.8221611

>>8221577

>Tried to kill myself numerous times only to have some asshole save me each time.

You're just an attentionwhore. Failing once is fine, but failing twice means you're doing it just for the attention.

>> No.8221843

>>8221601
>>8221611
Even if he is, so what? He's obviously going to extreme lengths to get attention. There's a difference between, "LOOK AT ME I'M A GURL ^___^" and feeling the need to try and kill yourself (even if you don't intend to go through with it) for attention. Look up histrionic personality disorder.

>> No.8221884

I'm trying to get a job at night as a security guard so I can take it easy. I've never had a job.

>> No.8221953

>>8221595
Okay, I'll bite. Just what are you doing to fail every single time? If only so we know not to try whatever it is.

>> No.8221961 [DELETED] 

I've been a NEET for 10 years now.

>> No.8221965

>>8221961
If you ever run out of money, let me know and I'll care for you.

>> No.8221994

>>8221965
I imagine Anon going by a pet store with his mom and being all like "mommy, mommy, can I please have a NEET? Please, I'll take care of him, I promise!"

>> No.8221997
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NEET here. Never worked a day. I've never had much of a reason to. My mother inherited a lot of money and I've grown up being able to pretty much just buy anything I want. But now that I'm an adult, I don't really see the value in being a wage slave.

I'm also a college dropout, which means I only have a high school education. I live in one of the most expensive cities in the world, which means it would be impossible to find a job with my level of education to support myself in any way other than the most ghetto, hand-to-mouth existence.

These are the choices to me. I can either stay at home as a NEET, enjoying a large house, anything I want to eat and the occasional box in the mail from Japan.
Or, I could work some manual labour/menial job for 8 hours a day and barely get by sharing an apartment with three or four roommates and their pet roaches, living off of ramen and buying the cheapest of everything and barely being able to afford even that. I know that some of /jp/ has to survive this way, and it makes me even more unwilling to go down this route.

>> No.8222001

i go to university.

i still feel like my life is flying by because i have no friends and do the same thing every day. next year i'm going to try backpacking around some cool areas and apply to study abroad for a semester.

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>>8221553
source on this? in return a NEET song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxfh5jOHv8A

>> No.8222007

At least one out of eight of those people who post looking here for room mates are currently living out a bad end in what is essentially a frat house for the normals who couldn't afford college. Sitting in terror under whatever possessions they manged to carry with them. They probably work jobs gotten out of convenience, maybe from one the their roommates. They're a bad fit for the work, and their coworkers are even worse than those they are living with, but the poor ex neet can't bring themself to pass another interview again, ever. All becuase you were too selfish to offer to help them out. For all you know they could have been your neighbor, you could have been great friends but now they are completely broken never mind even having hobbies.

A sizable percent of the remaining 7/8 have probably at least attempted suicide, wonder how many of made it.

>> No.8222018

>>8221360
It can't be worse than a bus boy job, can it? Because of that time long ago I know I can never work in a total public environment again, and it sucks because I really need money right now and the only thing I find is restaurant shit work (not cleaning or behind the scene duties like helping chefs, inventory etc.) and retail min wage crap.

>> No.8222019

It's fucking scary how easy it is to just forget that time is passing and wander through years of your life without a care in the world, before you finally realize how deep shit you've gotten yourself into.

Unlike you people, I actually have things to do, a destiny to fulfill. But I keep getting lost in shallow dreams, and end up remaining passive.

>> No.8222025

>>8222019
Nothing is really worth it in the end. We just try to survive.

What destiny of yours is this?

>> No.8222026

>>8222019
Time certainly flies.
What "destiny" would that be?

>> No.8222034

>>8222026
He probably still thinks he can soar into an upper management position, if only he could apply the minimal amount of effort.

>> No.8222037

I never finished elementary school, I dropped out of middle school, and I've never been to high school. I have never had a job in my life. I have no reason to live, and I don't see why anyone else does either.

>> No.8222047

>>8222037
How could you not see how others have a reason to live?
You can do whatever you want with your life, sure you need a bit of money to start anything off but it beats sitting in your room all day.

>> No.8222050

>>8222025
>>8222026
I'm still trying to work out the details on that part.
>>8222034
Nothing of the sort, I assure you. It's not about money, power or fame.

>> No.8222054

>>8221997
But I already live kind of like the latter and I stay at home besides going to uni (and I don't know why I am there anymore since i don't do anything and my grades are shit. Guess it's the small financial aid I get). I'm poor and have no job so I have no choice because it's either continuing to live like shit with my parents if they keep out of kindness until they can't support me anymore, or become homeless (and I can't make it as a homeless person).

Also getting roaches is apparently easier than you think. Don't buy shitty roach sprays or traps, doesn't solve the core of the problem. Instead just save that money and shell out a hundred or two for an exterminator that uses licensed roach poison. Ours didn't use anything that was gaseous but rather a gel that you can't buy in stores. In two weeks we had almost no more roaches. The remaining ones were all half dead, violent jerking their limbs kind of like I shake and spasm sometimes.

>> No.8222055

still waiting on that akarin lewdness

>> No.8222058

>>8222050
I was in the same position as you not too long ago. Turns out my "destiny" was also one of those shallow dreams.

It was not an easy pill to swallow. Hope you fare better.

>> No.8222062

>>8222050
Developing a superiority complex is far better than being in a depression or going insane, I wish you luck on your goal.

>> No.8222069

>>8222006
Liar Game, Chapter 139.

>> No.8222078

>>8222058
There's certainly a risk of that. But it's still quite simple. If I choose to pursue it, there's a risk of failure and finding out I have nothing to live for after all. But if I choose not to, I'm already doomed for failure and have nothing to live for in the first place. You don't even have to weigh the option, you can figure out what's best through the most rudimentary logic.

>> No.8222083

>>8222078
Let us know how your delusion turns out~

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ITT, small fry whine about not getting enough government benefits to buy their expensive figs.

>> No.8222118

Been unemployed for six years now, and I have until the end of the month to find a job, or else I'll go homeless. It was nice knowing you, /jp/.

>> No.8222139

I technically do have a job, but I only work six and a half hours a week. I wish that I could work more.

I don't make enough money to pay the bills (used to, but had hours taken away from me) and I can't seem to find another. It took me about a year and a half to get this job, and it is the first real one I've had (I'm in my late 20s). Things have always looked bleak, no matter how hard I try.

>> No.8222160

>>8222118
/jp/ - The Edge of Society

Good luck, anon.

>> No.8222198

I've got another job lined up for Monday. I just really want to move out, however I don't think $11/hr is enough. The government basically thinks a living wage is when you can bicycle 20 miles to work.

My mother isn't as pleasant as most of yours and apartments like I'm in now fucking suck, but I know going with a roommate is a very bad idea. For me privacy is priceless, I want a place I can go out on the back porch and piss and nobody will say anything.

>> No.8222203

Remember anons, Gensokyo will always be there for us. I'm poor and my parents are supporting me, but my father just lost his job. My mother lost hers 7 months ago. They are urging me to get a job, but fuck it, I'm opening the portal. I'll be waiting for you there, together with the anons that went before me.

>> No.8222200

You guys ever wish you could go back and change what made you this way? Or are you all pretty satisfied with the way things turned out?

>> No.8222215

>>8222200

I'd rather die than losing all these years worth of Touhou, anime, manga, VNs, Games and the Internet.

>> No.8222240

>>8222200
Satisfied? Not really. But if it were possible, changing my experiences would be the last thing on my mind. They made me who I am. If I were to undo that, I'd probably end up as the kind of person I currently hate and would never want to be. What a terrifying idea.

>> No.8222252

>>8222200
I really have no reason to be this way. I never got bullied in school, parents weren't abusive, etc. I'm just depressed and scared of being outside.

>> No.8222264

>>8222200
If I had different experiences in the past, I'd be a different person than I am now, and thus I would not be me. I cannot possibly be in a different situation than I am now because my situation and experiences define me.

>> No.8222265

>>8222252
Maybe you got sexually abused, but the memories were too painful so you suppressed them. I mean, you can't prove that it didn't happen.

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this is redundant

can we have just 1 pity-party thread a day? or how about we just wait til christmas eve to make the next one so those feels feel a little more fresh

>> No.8222313

>>8222302
Last christmas eve my depression got so bad I couldn't get out of bed all day. Not even to post on 4chan.

>> No.8222381

>>8222302
These threads should be at least three times as numerous as anything else on the board. But since it bothers you, I propose we go for times anything else.

>> No.8222400

>>8222302

I plan on killing myself on Christmas. It will be glorious. I'll spend all day playing touhou to prepare myself for the trip, then come here and post in all the depression and lonely threads, before poisoning myself. And then, the next day, I'll be in Gensokyo, prepared to learn magic and become a danmaku loli.

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>>8222400

>> No.8224332
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unemployed since 2008 here
i know that feel.
>no money to buy vidya
>no money for bitches [/spoiler]last gf dumped me because lolnomoneyz
>no money to go eat out or order pizza

living off parents too

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>>8224150
Video game character.

>> No.8229473

>>8222200
The only thing I would change would be my grades during Uni. I just know I could have done better, even if those are just useless numbers in the long run.

>> No.8229476

My first day was yesterday

I don't want to go back
Please help me

>> No.8229503

>>8221286
i'll be that faggot, but sauce?

>> No.8229509

>>8229503
Just because this isn't /a/

Kaiji

>> No.8229520

>>8221286
Everyone's life is meaningless in the grand scheme of things in the Universe.

>> No.8229522

>>8229503
A tip, reverse search the image by pasting the image's URL into Google images. It will give you sauce for pretty much anything.

>> No.8229524

>>8229520
On the other hand, the grand scheme of things is meaningless to our lives.

>> No.8233446

>>8229520
>>8229524
http://www.google.com/search?q=everything+you+have+been+taught+is+a+farce+in+the+grand+scheme+of+thi
ngs

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