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9712332 No.9712332[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

Does anyone else here have this fear and suspicion that almost everyone on /jp/ has a job and is very well off, living on their own and socializing on a regular basis?

What if the whole NEET culture here is a lie propagated by people seeking escapism from their humdrum 9 to 5 life?

>> No.9712334

I know I am pretty NEET.

>> No.9712343

Pretty much everyone except me /jp/ is a normal with a 9 to 5 and a daily updated facebook, plus extensive visits to twitter and /v/. They also all own iphones.

>> No.9712358

But my job is 7 to 330

I was truNEET for 9 months before last week

>> No.9712361

If only we'd all get warped into one room just to see who's pretending and who isn't.

>> No.9712397

>>9712361
But everyone would start raping each other.

>> No.9712403

I work and I'm well off, but the only people I talk to are here.

I post in NEET threads all the time making up stories. I consider any work with less than two replies to be a failure and refine my talents.

>> No.9712405

I'm a college student. I only go to class 2 days a week from 6 to 9 pm.

>> No.9712410

I have a habit of not giving a shit about other people's preferences as long as I'm not being impolite.

>> No.9712418

>>9712397

Finally, none of us would be virgins!

>>9712332

I'm a student and I work once a week because my parents won't let me quit my stupid job.

>> No.9712421

>>9712332
Nah, I only go to community college and I'm doing a shitty job at even that.

>> No.9712425

>>9712332
I have a job. I come here for the touhou and ignore the neet4life threads.

>> No.9712428

Going to community, but I was NEET for like three years before being legit a hobo for like 7 months.

>> No.9712430

If I'm supposed to be so well off, then why am I sitting in a tiny hotel room, starving with nothing to eat, and just hoping to find some way to earn money soon?

I miss my cushy life in my mother's basement. Damn my father for kicking me out.

>> No.9712442

>>9712332

I enjoy the things this board discusses, and I also attend college. I like spending my free time inside playing games or reading. I'm not propagating anything. That would be the handful of people who think that only someone who doesn't do anything can enjoy the stuff discussed here, and that everyone else are evil normals.

>> No.9712513

I have no job, and i was supposed to go back to university last week but i decided to "wait" til next semester.

currently living off my savings and parents' money and food stamps.

>> No.9712564

I have a job, will eventually become 6 figures in about 5 years; note that I'm 25 right now. I have a girlfriend, we have happily been together for two years now; I plan to propose to her soon. I have friends and we still play Melee together and randomly schedule trips to wherever the fuck we feel like; last time we went to Cancun during Spring Break to fuck around with drunk stupid college kids.

Yes, I do use /jp/ to enjoy my Touhou. NEET culture exists but clearly isn't everyone here. There are tons of normalfags on this board.

>> No.9712577

>>9712564
If you have a girlfriend why don't you, like, kill yourself man? And honestly what do you plan to do with a six figure salary you materialist pig?

>> No.9712580

I'll die before I get a job

>> No.9712584

>>9712564
Please share your address with us so I can come throw rocks in your windows.

>> No.9712590

I'm actually a millionaire.
Pretending to be a NEET is the only fun I have access to, sadly.

>> No.9712594

>>9712590
I'm actually a NEET.
Pretending to be a Millionaire is the only fun I have access to, sadly.

>> No.9712621

I feel like killing myself because I don't have a job.

>> No.9712623

>>9712621
Me too.

>> No.9712627

>>9712621
No one cares

>> No.9712630

>>9712621
So do I.

>> No.9712642

>>9712332
Does it matter? I don't have a job but I'm pretty well off, being able to sustain living alone in an owned apartment and the upkeep of large displacement motorcycle. And a bunch of miscellaneous shit.

Otaku Culture != Piss-n-shit on the floor TrvNEET hikki

>> No.9712643

>>9712621
I'm feeling like killing myself when I finally get a job.

>> No.9712644

>>9712623
>>9712630
Really? I'm kind of sad knowing I'm not the only one on /jp/ that feels that.

>> No.9712646

>>9712621
Don't do it anons.

That'd mean several less whites around. Do you really want the planet to be overrun by dirty niggers? They are the only ones breeding these days, you know.

>> No.9712652

>>9712646
The world is doomed anyway, regardless how many /jpsies kill themselves.

>> No.9712651

>>9712594
What fun does that entail?
Looking down on others while actually being a loser yourself? Posting crazy over the top stories that never truly detail your pathetic life? It just doesn't sound very fun at all.

>> No.9712668

I'll admit - I'm in training right now. Autism Bux is but a distant dream for me.

>> No.9712684

I can't even get a job at an electronics store, they require too much experience.

>> No.9712694

>>9712684
Right? Where do people except you to get experience when every place requires experience?

>> No.9712695

>>9712646
Idiot mongoloids like you only motivate me more.

>> No.9712699

>>9712643

I share this sentiment.

Working a shit.

>> No.9712705
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9712705

also, whaaat is this suspect that op is ACTUALLY a cunt??

whee

Anyway, most of 4chan are university students, along with a few underage who are either in highschool or are fuckups.

Oh I'm sure there are a lot of bottom 0.1% adults who are shut-ins living with family (what the Japanese call "hikikomori,") or who don't seek work (NEET,) but such folks tend to have simple "blue-collar" interests and/or drug addiction to feed, and wouldn't find themselves spending time or energy on the complex potentially-expensive-yet-not-involving-cocaine pursuit that is Japanese media fandom.

>> No.9712710

>>9712705
>potentially-expensive
Thirty dollars or whatever gets you a decent internet connection is how much it costs to do this. It's ten times cheaper than any drug habit you might have.

>> No.9712713

>>9712695
Kill yourself, mudskin. Your filth is what is ruining this planet. I'm honestly surprised you could type that message and not just bang your keyboard in frustration like the typical apes do.

>> No.9712716

>>9712564
>Melee
Fucking faggot
>>>fuckoff

>> No.9712719

>>9712705
How long do I have to be NEET before I can be properly considered a NEET?

>> No.9712724

I work in a grocery store and go to community college

I am not allowed to be a neet

>> No.9712735

true NEET for 2 years and counting..

>> No.9712746

>>9712710
Computer-related anything is too rich for these dudes' blood-alcohol, srsly. Students, on the other hand, are the top 1% of casual media pirates by the time they hit puberty, and are even better at it by the time they go to uni.

Seriously, you folks on this board know more about how to get Japanese media for free than the Chinese bootleg disc makers do. And you wouldn't if you weren't intellectually active your whole lives. You're white-collar, and you're gonna stay that way too unless you chose a really philanthropic major, and you're "intellectual property" "thieves" so I assume that won't be a problem.

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9712757

>>9712713
Me and my le mudskin face in the middle.

>> No.9712767

What the heck is wrong with you suicidal people?

I sit on a mattress in a room with barely any furniture in front of my cheap laptop, have a poor mother with bad personality and I'm still happy just to be alive. I'm 25 and didn't have true friends or a girlfriend in highschool. Due to being extremely unsocial, I dropped out of school. I never worked or plan to work in my life. I live of disability money. I don't have a license, can't program, and don't have any other noteworthy skills.

But you know what? Not even once I thought about suicide. I want to live.

Also, I don't understand what's so great about having a job and earning more money that I don't even need. I have other goals, like becoming good at drawing and to move out.
And once I've moved out of here, I'll try to learn more things and enjoy my life even more.

>> No.9712770

>>9712746
That kind of explanation could have had some relevance in the 80's.

>> No.9712780

>>9712767
>What the heck is wrong with you suicidal people?
Says the guy who gets free money to lay around his mattress in his parent's house.Not everyone can get tard dollars in the world, you know-and working is essentially guaranteed misery.

I

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>>9712757
Why are you sleeping on ordnance? Just to pose for that pic, amirite?

>> No.9712796

do I seriously have to respond to these tards? I mean no, right? >>9712770
>80's
Are you that stupid or just trolling me? Go take a flying leap, twatlump mumblecunt.

>> No.9712801

>>9712767
It's sad to say and something some edgy NEETs will ever refuse to admit but some people actually ENJOY what they do. Others aspire to a higher standard of living. If a Ferrari and a mansion makes them happier, then so be it - fuck what others think. Of course it is impossible to achieve such material comforts for normal NEETs without rich parents so you'd have to work for it too.

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9712802

>>9712781
>ordnance
>ORDNANCE

Oh shit. This is the first time in years I've seen somebody spell that correctly. Thank you. Thank you so much.

Now don't go diffusing any bombs and we're set.

>> No.9712803

>>9712767
>I have other goals, like becoming good at drawing and to move out.
Aren't you an ambitious one. What are you going to do after that? Why hasn't your family disowned you already?

>> No.9712812

>>9712796
Yes, please explain. Your post made very little sense.

>> No.9712816

>>9712705
Your English is terrible and you should get out of /jp/.

>> No.9712824

>>9712781
The snow is wet.

>> No.9712830

>>9712812
>>9712816
Same faggot and I don't seriously need to defend that adult perpetua-jobless don't buy computers, will try to sell any computer they steal (after breaking it, of course,) and modern networking didn't even fucking exist in the 80's.

so 11/10, yaay, you're pissing me off.

>> No.9712846

>>9712830
Piracy and copy protection existed in the eighties, as did crackers. Who the heck isn't 'intellectually active' for their whole life? Why are you comparing people to third world criminals?

>> No.9712851

>>9712846
People all know better than your shit, or can check. And if that's the best you got, we're already done. Go take that leap now.

>> No.9712855

>>9712851
>People all know better than your shit, or can check.
I can't even figure out what this is supposed to mean.

>> No.9712874

I'm a NEET that lives with his grandma in a 1 bedroom apartment living off frozen corndogs and ramen.

Still beats having a job anyday

>> No.9712881

NEET lifestyle confirmed for ironic shit posting.
NEEt threads should be deleted on sight by janitors because they are a joke, and 99% of the people posting in them are normals, they are as bad as flan fly.

>> No.9712898

>>9712881
I thought users were supposed to know it before the first ones were even made.

>> No.9712917

>>9712881
Flanfly is quality. Fuck you, man. Seriously.

>> No.9712927
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>>9712881
>Joke's on you, I was just joking! Really!
And now I'm laughing my ass off.

>> No.9712957

>>9712694
Kroger

>> No.9712989

>>9712957
would the Stop-and-Shop work, maybe? Or how about CVS? Or the qwik-e-mart, those guys have a soda slushy thing nobody keeps an eye on, maaaan that's what I call job benefits.

>> No.9713006

congrats OP, you've figured it out. Most people just pretend, all of 4chan has been infested by normals pretending for a while. A lot of them don't even pretend to be us anymore.

>> No.9713018

>>9712989
Work at McDonalds if you can get a job there. They give you free or discounted food. Shit's cash.

>> No.9713015

People who pretend to be something they're not are shittier posters than the most autistic truNEET and the most outspoken normal.

Only these kinds of clowns can really make a board go to shit.

>> No.9713030

Well who neet would have money for computer?

>> No.9713036

I have a job, but still live at home.. I only work fri, sat, and sun. going to school full-time, broke as hell trying to pay back student loans.

We can't all be blessed with a mental illness, guys.
You guys are still the only ones I can call friends

>> No.9713037

>>9713015
This is like 95% of all "truNEET"s.

>> No.9713038
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9713038

>>9713006
I think all the people who want a slower more japaneesey /b/, and beginner lolipedo types, and other broken records that used to be a staple of 4chan shitposting have gone off to other "chans" now. If you don't like the way 4chan is headed (towards improvement) maybe you could go join them.

>> No.9713041

>>9713036
Please don't misuse spoilers.

>> No.9713043

>>9713006
What is your definition of a 'normal?'

>> No.9713047

>>9713030
£70 a week for autism bucks.
= 280 a month.
You can buy / build a PC good enough for day to day activities, or even games like WoW.
Just not the brand new high end graphics games.

Maybe if 4chan had an /rp/ section we could make a NEET roleplay.
You normies would love that right

>> No.9713046

>>9713037
It's pretty sad, yeah.

>> No.9713051
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9713051

>>9713038
>towards improvement
sure it is redditbro, sure it is

>> No.9713062

>>9713038
...of course, I should amend that, one variety of broken record is still around, the repetitive paint-by-numbers internet troll that likes to bash and depict people who have "nerdy" interests as supposedly being one thing or another, while they themselves hang out on a site that's specifically by and for people with "nerdy" interests.

I never have understood the reason for these guys but there sure are enough of them. Legions, you might say.

>> No.9713066

NEET for two and a half, almost three years if you count the semester I stopped attending class and just stayed in my room. I post and browse on an iPhone my brother found on a beach, using unsecured neighbors' wifi. My computer harddrives died about 18 months ago and the monitor blew six months after, and I can't afford to replace any of it.

Lower middle class NEETdom is suffering

>> No.9713068 [DELETED] 

I have a job, but I really hate to be labeled as a normal because of it. I don't really have a choice. I don't mingle with my coworkers, I hate my job, the only comfort I find is on the internet. I don't crave a 'normal' life or a relationship. I just want to live my life easily like the rest of you.

I almost died on Sunday, and the only thing I could think about was how much I would miss you guys.

Sorry about the blog post, but this really bothers me.

>> No.9713085

>>9713041
Spoilers lack the capacity to be abused.

>> No.9713114

A little over $100k per year working as a programmer and project leader, but I still like to make up cute stories about hiding in the basement from mom and post them in the NEET threads. Posting here is the only socializing I do, so it's all in good fun.

>> No.9713125

I'm one of those people that managed to climb out of the dark pit that is depression and anxiety.

That being said, I was never a NEET, but I was extremely close to being one and managed to skip school enough that I almost lost my final year of high school.

It was difficult, and I don't know if it was worth it in the end. I managed to enroll in a local university hoping to land a job that would allow me to earn a good salary, so I could eventually quit and live off the interest. Of course, that's becoming more and more unfeasible.

I've never really wanted or needed a girlfriend and I was always a loner and my interest have always leaned towards the weird; I always have high autism scores on those tests that are posted on /jp/. But in the 4 years that I've attended college, I've been miserable. That is until I found another /jp/sie on campus, dealing with the exact same shit that I was. We hit it off and now we're best friends.

So if that's your definition of normal, then I guess I am.

>> No.9713131

>>9713062
They live their delusional ideal of being the Marlboro Man. When thinking gets too hard, leaning on authority relieves. I've always regarded 4chan regulars as broken misfits and/or legitimate idiots.

>> No.9713151

I go to school, ~15 credits a semester. I don't know if that's full time or not or anything. I live with my parents, and leech off of financial aid. I have some friends, but only hang out with them at school and blow them off whenever they want to hang out outside of school. Honestly I just sort of use them to pass the time at school and to talk about anime and video games and stuff with. And also partially to use to fill my insane sociopathic desire to manipulate and control people.

Am I like, at least 25% NEET? I spend at least eight hours a day on the computer and 4chan.

>> No.9713155

ITT: NEETs pretending to be non-NEETs that pretend to be NEETs.

>> No.9713159

>>9713085
I'm sure if that were the case there would be no warning about abuse leading to bans.

>> No.9713170

>>9713159
Way to make shit up

>> No.9713173

>>9713114
Question: I'm going to school for Computer Science. How math-intensive is real life programming? Like, Calculus all-day erry-day?

>> No.9713174

>ITT: I'm normal but I have good reasons to be here, so don't try to tell me to leave because I fit in so well!!
I hope you all die.

>> No.9713180

>>9713174
Nobody has even told them to leave yet.

That's how little people care these days.

>> No.9713186

Why do all the normals like Apple's products so much?

>> No.9713189

>>9713180
I usually would, but even I feel too normal for this place.

I'll just go ahead and show myself the door.

>> No.9713193

>>9712705
>such folks tend to have simple "blue-collar" interests and/or drug addiction to feed, and wouldn't find themselves spending time or energy on the complex potentially-expensive-yet-not-involving-cocaine pursuit

Meth is more popular than cocaine among the underclass.

>> No.9713196

>>9713186
Because they are braindead automatons, just like the falseNEET scum that invades /jp/ during the American afternoons.

/jp/ is fine from 3AM-3PM EST, then it all goes to shit.

>> No.9713210

>>9713196
Digital environments cannot house “shit”. Dummyhead.

>> No.9713216

>>9713186
>Why do all the normals like Apple's products so much?

As far as phones and tablets, they're coasting on the marketshare they established when competing products were ludicrously bad. I expect we'll see a repeat of the 1980s, this time with Android relegating Apple's mobile offerings to obscurity.

>> No.9713218

>>9713173
Hardly any at all. They teach you a lot of calculus in university, but that's to improve your problem solving skills, not explicitly teach you calculus (unless you're a math or physics major). I have never had to solve multiple integrals, solve partial derivatives, rotate curves around axes, or graph polar curves by hand ever since university. But if you go into developing games or modeling physics engines, you might need to do things like that. If you're just going to work as an average programmer, you won't need calculus "all-day erry-day."

>> No.9713226

>>9713218

Okay, cool. I'm actually transferring into a 4-year university from a junior/community college, and it seems like they don't require transfer students to take Calculus. I was just concerned that I might be missing out on necessary skills if I just decided to skip that whole subject altogether. I have never been very good at math at all, unfortunately. My focus in the field will be artificial intelligence, and I'm inclined to believe I won't really need calculus for that.

>> No.9713235

>>9713189
Even you, huh?

I'm pretty sure a lot of the actual NEET population, the people who really had social anxiety and had a hard time taking it easy, just left after /jp/ started filling up with retarded children pretending to be NEET because it's the /jp/ thing to do. It must have been depressing.

I was NEET for two years, but I fell off the wagon.

>> No.9713252

>>9713180
>That's how little people care these days.

The joke got boring.

>>9713173
>Question: I'm going to school for Computer Science. How math-intensive is real life programming?

Very, although in most positions you're unlikely to be using calculus as much as discrete math and linear algebra.

>> No.9713265

>>9713226
Developing AI doesn't have a heavy focus on calculus, but it uses many skills you learn in discrete math (which is more computer logic than math) and matrix algebra.

>> No.9713267

>>9713226
>My focus in the field will be artificial intelligence, and I'm inclined to believe I won't really need calculus for that.

You can't understand artificial intelligence without statistics, and you can't understand statistics without calculus.

>> No.9713280

>>9713170
http://www.4chan.org/faq#spoiler

>Misuse of these tags may result in a ban.

>> No.9713294

>>9713280
Too bad for you that you're the only one who gives a shit about that. Go cry about it to someone who cares.

>> No.9713310

This board isn't for NEET's, you faggots. Take that shit to /r9k/
Or fucking hell go to /b/ with your super sekrit clubhaus shit.

You lot are by far the worst posters on the board. always whining about shit. this board is strictly for taking it easy, you fags are making that very difficult right now.

>> No.9713321

>>9713310
Fuck off normalfag. 4chan is not yours.

>> No.9713333

>>9713310
I love you too.

>> No.9713340

>>9713321
4chan is open to everybody thanks to our benevolent leader, moot.

>> No.9713336

>>9713321
Nor is it yours, nerd.
I don't give a damn if you've been here all summer. Just because you don't have a job doesn't make you any more welcome here than someone who has to work to survive.

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>>9713336
Why can't you obnoxious niggers just take it easy?

Go kill yourselves.

>> No.9713353

>>9713333
Please don't take offense unless you're one of these people:

>>9713006
>>9713174
>>9713180
>>9713189

>> No.9713356

>>9713340
>>9713336
Normalfag propaganda, don't believe their lies.

>> No.9713358

>>9712621
I think I might have a problem. I don't have any wants, nothing to work for, no motivation, haven't had any for years. All I want to do is take it easy, however if I continue doing what I'm doing I won't be able to take it easy at all. It's a lose-lose situation.

>> No.9713361

Flaming normals off the board was a positive thing when normals were shittier posters than NEETs. Or rather, the normals who outed themselves, since they were usually visitors or new.

Sometime since then NEETs and children-and-retards-pretending-to-be-NEETs seized the throne of garbage posting from the normals, and this stopped being useful.

>> No.9713364

>>9713356
https://www.4chan.org/faq
>4chan is a simple image-based bulletin board where anyone can post comments and share images.

Straight from the horse's mouth.

>> No.9713369

>>9713364
Everybody knows the horse is a normalfag, though. And it's true. Just nobody cares.

>> No.9713375

I am still not sure what a 'normal' even is.

Is it everyone who doesn't sit, closed up in their rooms all day?
Is it anyone who has a job?
OR Is it someone who desires to be 'normal' (relationships, family, foreveralone r9k retards etc.)?

>> No.9713379

>>9713369
Doesn't make the statement less true.

We here at 4chan embrace all kinds with open arms.

>> No.9713380

>>9713379
>We here at 4chan embrace all kinds with open arms.
Furries.

>> No.9713389

>>9713380
They're embraced as well, take a look at /mlp/. Also, just because people are mean to them doesn't mean they aren't welcome. Look at all the people being mean to each other in this very thread.

>> No.9713384

>>9713375
>OR Is it someone who IS or desires to be 'normal' (relationships, family, foreveralone r9k retards etc.)

Fixed.

>> No.9713385

>>9713375
yes

>> No.9713391

>>9713379
You're not even trying to hide the fact that you're new, or a troll.

Fuck off.

>> No.9713394

>>9713380
>/mlp/

>> No.9713395

>>9713389
/mlp/ is a board created by popular demand because nobody wanted that shit on their own board.

>> No.9713400

>>9713395
Were they not accepted?

>> No.9713405

>>9713395
Same as every other board, really.
Especially a familiar little board that split from /a/

>> No.9713413

>>9713400
Grudgingly. Hardly "with open arms."

>>9713405
We share the dubious honor of being one of four boards made for that sole purpose.

>> No.9713414

>>9713391
I fail to see how you came to such a conclusion. I'm curious, how exactly does outlining simple statements make me either of those things?

>> No.9713415

>>9713380
Bestiality is illegal in the states. By that logic we should have a child porn board

>> No.9713417

>>9713413
I wouldn't call it grudgingly given how much happier both sides are.

>> No.9713422

>>9713415
It would be much better recieved.

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