Can someone explain why you would want to be NEET? Why are you guys proud of it? Do you all live with your parents? Do you get pocket money or something?
I'm NEET and living from savings. It's not something you really want to do but it's not bad. I don't know why there's such a heavy stigma.
>>25020797
How long do you reckon you can last on the savings? And do you apply for jobs and courses etc regularly?
>>25020797
If NEETs went somewhere away from society and didn't drain tax dollars people wouldn't care.
>>25020856
Thiswould be relevant if any of these fuckboy losers actually had welfare. Confront them about it, like posting proof, they dodge the issue everytime
Being neet is pretty boring. Getting a job would probably be pretty difficult because I never finished high school.
>>25021144
Why not? And why not go back and finish it now?
>>25021144
You could get a GED in a couple of hours and most employers lump GED/Diplomas together on applications. If that's the basal educational requirement, the type doesn't matter.
The truth is there's no real happiness in being a wagecuck or a NEET.
I've been wagecucking for about five years now. I don't hate my job, but I do hate having to wake up at 5:30 in the morning five days a week. The biggest motivation I have for working is being able to live comfortably and buy the things I want. It's worth the 40-hour-a-week grind, if barely, so I continue to put up with it. But there are certainly days, particularly Mondays, where I can't help but feel a bit jealous of NEETs.
On the other hand, having all the free time in the world as a NEET is great in certain ways, but intense boredom sets in really fast. Plus, there's the shame of being a worthless leech. When there have been periods in my life where I wasn't working, I was pounding the pavement trying to find a job. NEETdom wears on your soul.
Probably the only way to be truly happy in life is to be your own boss and work as you see fit. I'd like to get to that point eventually -- I just have to figure out how.
>>25021459
Thanks for sharing man, though I don't know why anyone would have to wake up at 5:30am to work, I wake up at 7am
i'm a neet and i just simply can't deal with society and all the bullshit that modern life is, either i'm crazy or there is just something inherently wrong with it, everything just feels wrong.
not proud of being a neet at all.
>>25021459
I've found working from home to be a good middle ground.
It's not a ton of money, but I live in the south and the job market down here means every "real" job entails answering to some dipshit 40 year old redneck who never made it out of retail.
>>25021550
I'm a teachercuck. My days are from 7-3.
I'm neet because I earn more by doing nothing and don't want to sell magazines over phone.
>imblying there are jobs for people without education
If you're not hardworking and clever, you can't compete in modern world.
>>25020940
>Confront them about it, like posting proof, they dodge the issue everytime
you think someone is going to post government documents online to prove to you they get welfare?
>>25021598
Sucks man, u was gonna be a teacher but changed my mind. Thank fuck for that. Still you must enjoy helping kids?
>>25021215
I'm 20, so I couldn't go back to high school if I wanted to I am pretty sure.
>>25021252
It does coat money, though.
>>25021626
How do you earn more if you're NEET? By definition you don't earn anything?
>>25021645
I do, and the pay's good enough for me as a single guy.
Having two months off in the summer and still getting paid is pretty nice too. I can live the NEET lifestyle for a decent chunk of the year without having to feel worthless.
>>25021685
Nordic welfare state ;)
socialism at it's best (nat soc excluded)
When you're a NEET there isn't anything left to be proud of.
>>25021738
So you're a drain on society? Good for you
>>25021636
It literally takes a minute to take a cell phone picture and black out the sensitive info in paint
>>25021746
There are things like nation, home, religion and family.
>>25021779
Like everybody else does. I'll go study when they accept me into a school.
sieg heil
>>25021558
What is so wrong with modern life? Living in a air conditioned/heated house with TV and Internet and easy ways to communicate with people that matter to you seems pretty awesome compared to what other things in nature have to deal with.
>>25021801
But if you don't contribute to your nation and your home, and don't bring in money for your family how can you have any claim of pride to these things if you did not build even the smallest peice of it
>>25021801
>nation, home, religion and family.
NEET has none of these. NEET is a failure at life, so they are a failure at having a nation, home, religion, and family.
NEET life is suffering.
>>25021797
And what do I earn by proving it to some loser anon?
I live with my parents. I'm alone at home most of the time, though. Earning money without having to work is easy when you have free time, my dad gives me some money but I earn most on my own. Since I dont have to pay for anything but shit I need I hardly ever lack money. It's pretty awesome.
As a NEET all the time is free time.
Why wouldn't you want to be NEET?
If I could live like that forever I would.
>>25022004
I can come up with two things that are ruining my NEET experience.
>the stress of having bad sleep rhythm
>women I'm trying to sleep with don't like me being lazy loser
>be me college student and wagekek
>school was hard so dropped work
>first semester ending soon
>I failed miserably and couldn't keep up
>it was fucking shitty
>Decide I am going to be a NEET for a while to think things through
>Or might as well be NEET for life
>Parents already thought I was a degenerate beforehand so I have nothing to lose.
>fuck life
>>25022075
>women I'm trying to sleep with
you shouldn't be here
>>25022075
Why is bad sleeping rythm stressing you out? It's not like you have anywhere to be.
Being a lazy loser is on you, it has nothing to do with being NEET really.
>>25022160
Not that anon but fucking up your circadian rhythm can stress you out and make depression worse.
>>25020856
I'm still paying taxes though, so nobody should have an issue. Anyway, if that's the point then you should all be rallying for legal voluntary euthanasia.
>>25020852
Probably 6 more months at the most. I haven't even tried to apply for jobs, but luckily I have affluent family who offered to help me and employ me in their business.
>>25022004
It seems wonderful from the perspective of those that are wagecucking and so but its really a trap without moderation. Without the work you put in all that NEET freedom will eat at you.
>>25021833
>easy ways to communicate with people
>EASY WAYS
>TO COMMUNICATE
>WITH PEOPLE
Do you even read yourself, oh wait.... Now you get it.
>>25020739
I live at home with my parents, I'm a wageslave but I don't make enough to move out in this economy, nor do I know enough yet to get another job somewhere where housing is cheap enough.
>>25022330
I'm having a decent time with it. The only problem is the way other people treat you for being unemployed for a few months. It's really fucked up and depressing.
I know the NEET vs wagekek stuff is just memes, but I actually read and go to the gym and make art and music. I don't think I could ever get bored.
>>25022338
So you don't like talking with people? Why are you here then?
>>25022330
I can't say I've ever been bothered by the freedom of not having anywhere I have to be or something I have to do.
The only thing that really bothered me when I was NEET was the fact that I would eventually run out of money and my parents would eventually lose patience with me if I lived with them doing nothing.
Every worry of mine would dissapear if I had lots of money, if I had that I would happily NEET my life away.
>>25022423
you're not a person in his life. you're just an opinion without a face.
>>25022423
>Robots are people now
You lost me.
Anyway my point is that even IF we have the means to communicate all over the world, the quality of communication and the General Public Discourse Quality (TM) have been dropping so fast it's hilarious.
You can scream from the top of your lungs or flood the internet with whatever you want to say but no one will really listen/read.
>>25021678
nigga I'm 20 and just got my GED, took a month or so to get. only 15 bucks for the tests if you use the voucher that they plaster on their website.
just fucking do it mang, it's a bitch but you pretty much have to get it or else you will never get hired anywhere unless you have a personal connection with the ones hiring
Not proud of it, I was unhappy with my university so I dropped out. Not as big of a deal as it is in the US.
Spent the last 6 months thinking which degree I shoukd try for while the exams don't start and playing games.
>>25022545
Anon people have always been rock-fuck stupid. The only difference is that now with more options to express themselves stupid people make themselves more apparent.
As for getting noticed, it takes more than just intelligence. It takes luck, charisma, and knowing the right people.
>>25022746
living with mom?
>>25022356
Don't worry if things keep up like this no one from this generation outside of america might get a home unless they inherited.
>>25020797
>don't know why there's such a heavy stigma.
I think it has to do with how normies make employment such a big part of their life, and if go don't have that then they can't really relate to you at all
>>25022794
>knowing the right people.
and at the right time too, but I might be biased. I wonder how robots fared back in the middle ages/Renaissance.
>>25021459
>not realizing that part-time wagecucking is the true master race
I dont want to work a soul destroying job. I dont have the patience nor the intelligence for college/uni. I get 650 pounds a month in disability. But i have no work ethic, even if i wasn't disabled i wouldn't work because i dont fucking want to.
>>25022004
That's what you think, wagecuck. Trust me, all th free time in the world becomes a bad thing when you eventually run out of things to do
>>25020739
Parents left me the house and moved back home. I rent the second floor, basement, driveway and garage. Pocket $3500 a month. Shit's pretty chill.
>>25022930
what is your disability? what causes you to be so dysfunctional you can't carry boxes? are you an amputee?
I think getting money from government is the only thing keeping my sanity ...after all the shit normies put me through
After reading the works of Ayn Rand, I have determined that the collective parasites off of the individual, not the other way around.
'Pride' is inherently a stupid thing. Pride for what? Working hard? Building something? All of it will pass. Fuck pride.
>>25022954
I've never worked a day in my life. I dropped out of school at 16 years old and spent four years as a NEET.
I am now studying and looking for a part-time job but if I could get away with being a NEET all my life I would be just that.
The only problem is I don't have the money to live that way.
I'm free to pursue intellectualism
I'm free to think, debate, learn, and create
I can sleep and eat whenever I want.
I am not stressed from quotas or promotions
I can learn to live without material possessions, thus achieving a higher state of meaning
I do not live for anyone but myself
I don't have to deal with co-workers, bosses, student debt, or homework
I am a NEET. I am everything you want to be. Every wagekuk on the planet is trying to be me through retirement, saving, and investment. I am ahead of the curve. I am the final form of mankind.
>>25020739
Because wageslaving is absolute shit. The second I have enough $$$ saved for NEET life, I'm never looking back.
>>25023074
>I'm free to...
But what do you actually do if you had any real interests you'd be making a living no matter how meager off it.
>>25023048
Well in my case, I always thought I'd be happy as a NEET. But when I finally became one I realized it was a miserable existence. How do you deal with the crushing boredom?
They're NEET because they're delusional narcissistic failures whose carefully constructed fantasy world would be crushed as soon as they stepped outside of their mother's basement.
>>25022423
R9k is for people who have difficulty socializing or prefer to limit that experience. Go away Normie! Reeeeeeeee!
>>25023125
>You enjoy being a NEET
>So why not be a wageslave?
Might want to rethink your argument.
>>25023155
This if tbqh
>>25023130
I was rarely bored as a NEET. It wasn't until I started feeling guilty being a leech that I decided to start trying to support myself.
Remember NEET and shut-in isn't the same thing, you can pursue interests, have hobbies, have a social life and enjoy life fully even if you don't work or study.
>>25023183
So you don't have any interests?
>>25023155
Sorry. But this applies to 99% of the neets here.
>>25023225
Taking a few months(even years) off isn't that strange. But I highly doubt most 'career' NEETs have much of a social life
>>25020739
NEET is boring, but work is torture and I have very few material desires.
If I have to work in the future, it will be as little as possible,
>>25023155
Yep. NEETs are basically the same as landwhales. They need a separation from reality to substain their inner narative.
>>25023289
Ok.
I still maintain that life is only as boring as you make it, NEET or not.
Not all hobbies involve social activities anyway, fishing for example is fun and is best when alone.
>>25023225
Yes, but the things you mentioned cost money, and as a NEET I have no money to speak of
Tick tock wagecusk
Better get to sleep at 7pm to get up at 6am for work.
Loving life
Me you ask? Why i'll be up practising my piano for my next performance at the tea store on main street.
Be sure to drop in if you have time... Oh you don't? That's a shame
Oh well don't forget to iron that shirt before you sleep
Yes honey I'm coming! Lets go watch that newest hot movie!
>>25023006
How does the collective parasite off someone on government benefits?
>>25022800
Yes, sucks in some ways, but at least I don't have to do shit.
NEETs are parasites. They can't sustain themselves without a host.
>>25020739
>Can someone explain why you would want to be NEET?
I don't want to be, but I am due to circumstances, basically. I'm unable to get a job, I have no money right now, no car, no license. To even get the money to move out, I'd need to get a job and work for at least 3 years or so.
>Why are you guys proud of it?
I'm deeply ashamed of it.
>Do you all live with your parents?
I do.
>Do you get pocket money or something?
Not really.
>>25023416
Yeah, there is a difference between being independently wealthy and a NEET.
NEETs are the lowest non-instituanilized rung of society.
>>25023509
>unable
baka
>>25023416
But I didn't mention anything in particular.
You could spend time birdwatching and learning how to sing, it wouldn't cost a dime.
Anyway I agree that money is a limiting factor here. If I had money to live as a NEET I would.
>>25023465
you could describe most people who do non-essential services that don't work for themselves that way too.
Also, starting to sound like Andrew Ryan
>>25023542
Why haven't I gotten a job in the several years I've been looking for one, then?
>>25023578
But you manboys who sponge off your parents ARE parasites. It's not even a symbiotic arrangement.
>>25023600
I'll bite. How fat?
>>25023653
What do you want to see then?
All the "parasites" rounded up and put in work camps or shot if they can't or wont find "productive work"?
How dare they hold back the progress of the true winners like yourself.
>>25021598
fellow teacher cuck here. 7:45-3:45 contracted but putting in much, much more. ECs and "volunteering" eat up all my extra time.
Whatever. I'm too tired and busy to stand up for myself. Also I'm spineless.
>>25020739
>Can someone explain why you would want to be NEET?
Because you can spend all of your time doing what YOU want to do.
>Why are you guys proud of it?
Who wouldn't be proud of living like a king while all the taxpayer peasants slave away and pay tithe to you?
>Do you all live with your parents?
I do, but if I ever have to move out I'll be entitled to full housing benefit and by my estimate I'd still have around 400 quid a month disposable income after bills/food.
>Do you get pocket money or something?
I get 800 quid a month in benefits.
It's a good feeling to not be a slave.
>>25023795
I'm fine with how things stand now. Mooch off your parents. What do I care? I mean it's utterly pathetic, but whatever.
>>25021738
How much do u get
>>25023996
I gamed the system! Muh benefits. I'm a king!
>>25024093
I guess it is human nature to hate those you're jealous of.
>>25024187
yeah, sub-minimum wage,a dank basement, and no pussy ever. I'm eating my heart out.
>>25024252
Then why are you so angry, friend? Are you just a little stressed out from a long day at work?
It's okay bro, if you save up for a year I'm sure you'll be able to get a better computer. Maybe get a nice DXRacer to sit on while you play vidya on the weekend. If you want, I can even give you my old computer, I got a new one back in March for around 2000 pound so I don't need it anymore.
>>25024382
your life is sad senpai
>>25023996
>I live like a king
>I live with my parents
I thought kings owned their castles?
>>25023996
>It's a good feeling to not be a slave.
But you're still a slave to the state
>>25023125
>if you had any real interests you'd be making a living no matter how meager off it.
Surely no one actually believes this
>>25024431
So wagecucks always say. Which makes it even more of a mystery why you loathe us. If that's what you believe then why have so much contempt for people you think have it worse than you?
>>25024511
kek good point.
>>25024537
How does being provided for and expected nothing of make someone a slave? I would have went with pet.
>>25021730
Fellow Fellow Teachercuck here. Haven't reached summer pay yet, but it's close to the only thing keeping me from breaking my contract.
>>25024252
Why are you on /r9k/ lmao
>>25024252
I have all those things even though I'm employed full-time
>>25024578
Because if the state said "no more welfare" you'd either starve to death or end up selling your boipussy to Tyrone just to scrape by
>>25024771
How would that be any different from your boss saying "you're fired"? Any idiot can find a job to scrape by if he had to. Only difference would be one would have tasted freedom before retirement.
>>25024842
>How would that be any different from your boss saying "you're fired"?
Because I wouldn't be fired, as my labor has value and thus provides incentive for him to continue employing me. A NEET had no value to provide, and this the government has an incentive to "fire" him
>>25022202
>Working for family
You'll find out :^)
>>25025043
>my labor has value
What do you do for a living?
>>25025043
>A NEET had no value to provide, and this the government has an incentive to "fire" him
They also have an incentive to keep give him bux, they don't want hundreds of thousands of people committing crime and begging.
>>25020739
Like the very first poster, I am also NEET and live on my own savings. I'm past thirty, and have a vague sensibility of not wanting to leech off of others (which is a latent cultural attitude perhaps incongruent with historical conceptions of the welfare state, but never mind this right now).
But OP, I want to share with you, a deeper personal view.
It goes like this. At no time in my life, have I ever really held work as some sort of end-in-itself. The protestant work ethic, as it has expressed itself in American society (and consequently throughout the rest of the world with respect to conceptions of status, economics etc) commands some form of employment as a means of self-actualization.
More, even serious sociologists such as Charles Murray are onto the things I'm touching on above. He personally favors a protestant-work-ethic value system, but even he admits that the guy who works for $12/hr or whatever is in a sense a "chump" (his literal word) relative to the NEET-teater. This very serious person actually cops to the wagecuck meme, and I encourage all /r9k/ to look up CHARLES MURRAY and his work.
This has roughly always been my conception of work. The concept. The basic human reality: Work is a thing to be escaped, at the earliest possible convenience. It is a thing to be thrown under the bus, whether by lottery, extra-hard labor in the first part of one's life, etc. It is contemptible. Work is something to be overcome, and (properly) does not confer status. "I work job X". Great, you're going to die in a few decades just like me.
The protestant worth ethic has a disgusting masochism to it. I have lived well over a year without participating in it, although I shall be obliged to do so again soon, unfortunately.
There is a lyric which accurately states the proper attitude toward work: " Where they hung the jerk / that invented work / in the Big Rock Candy Mountain " If this were not true, then why do we seek to escape work?
>>25020739
My parents and my two aunts and my uncle pay me to live and care for my grandfather
He had a stroke and needs help to get around, all the basics
Everybody hates him, he abused the shit out of my grandma, so bad she killed herself when I was really little, every other word out of his mouth is nigger or jew, so we get along great
His house has my name on it too, I will inherit all his stuff, he is 75 and I am 22
Even take him hunting on his quad, I shot the deer, he finished him off, set up a feeding spot, easy as pie
His money pays for all the food, utilities and gas then I get 500 a month from each of his kids and the state pays me to be his companion, I had to take a class on first aid, CPR and how to care for old people, I put everything I am paid in the bank, so I will not have to work when he dies
He told me he is gonna start getting a bunch of credit cards, so we can run them all up and when he dies I can tell the banker Jews to fuck themselves
He is a great guy and I would stay with him for free, but I will take the money too
Only problem is he hates drugs, booze and keeps the house so hot it's like we are in an oven, gotta give a little to have it easy
>>25020856
That "drain" is dildos compared to single mothers, dindus, military welfare queens, etc.
>>25025580
That's all well and good in theory but somebody has to power your house, provide your internet, grow your food etc
>>25020739
i have a job OP and i hate it. if i didn't have to work to afford food, rent, and tobacco i would be NEET gladly. i already have many months supply worth of PCP, a tv, and a PC. what else do i needbesides a gfwhich i will never have
:^)
