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Are you a NEET?

  • Yes

    Votes: 36 60.0%
  • No

    Votes: 24 40.0%

  • Total voters
    60
Kramer

Kramer

Nervous wreck
Oct 27, 2020
1,399
I'm not currently a NEET, but will probably become one soon once my education finishes due to my neet-like habits and tendencies.
Why get education if you don't plan to work?
 
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Symbiote

Global Mod
Oct 12, 2020
3,102
Was a NEET in my early to mid 20s, then realized that I like to work than stay at home with family who wouldn't leave me alone.
 
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Konjac

Konjac

Experienced
Oct 25, 2020
292
Yeah, I don't know what went wrong. I used to want to be a doctor... now I just spend all day doing nothing meaningful. Eat, go on the internet, sleep, repeat. Just a depressing way to live life.
 
waterstrider

waterstrider

cold
Nov 29, 2020
400
Sadly I have nothing to do right now...so I'm a neet. I used to work pre-covid but now I can't go there any longer. I wish I could go back in time and make that fucking pandemic disappear. Being at home all day makes me even more depressed.
 
Kramer

Kramer

Nervous wreck
Oct 27, 2020
1,399
Sadly I have nothing to do right now...so I'm a neet. I used to work pre-covid but now I can't go there any longer. I wish I could go back in time and make that fucking pandemic disappear. Being at home all day makes me even more depressed.
Don't you have shows, movies, and books that you suddenly have time for?
 
waterstrider

waterstrider

cold
Nov 29, 2020
400
Don't you have shows, movies, and books that you suddenly have time for?
I've lost interest in most stuff ever since my depression started really kicking in 2-3 years ago. I wish I could entertain myself better because then I wouldn't even mind being alone/at home.
But now it's just trying to get the time to pass. Only walking around a bunch and being on here is something I look forward to.
 
epic

epic

Enlightened
Aug 9, 2019
1,814
Yes, I have physical health problems, I don't think I will be able to hold a 9-5 job down anymore. I feel useless because before I was putting a lot of effort in my career and now I am a do-nothing wreck.

Sorry for the little rant.
 
_Kaira_

_Kaira_

This Isn't Fine
Oct 2, 2020
826
Yes. My anxiety and agoraphobia is crippling. I've been trying to get a job, but it's not going well.
I can't deal with these panic attacks, overwhelming amounts of dread and paranoia anymore.
 
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kohaku

kohaku

Nonbinary Hysteric
Mar 27, 2019
188
My depression struck me right before high school. And then my PTSD made it impossible for me to interact with people normally when I tried to go to high school, which caused me incredible distress. Most days I just didn't want to get out of bed. Thus I failed year after year, never going to school, listening to my parents talk about the threats of legal action until I turned 18 and dropped out officially.

I'm 19 now and haven't gone back to school since. I've tried finding a job, and I really wanted to, but my depression makes it impossible for me to tolerate work. The job office still calls for me though and it's mandatory to go if I want to keep my health insurance. I've managed to go somehow, though. I've tried telling the clerk that my depression makes everything difficult, but she told me you just have to fight it and that she beat her depression. But she doesn't understand that mine has been treatment-resistant to both SSRIs and SNRIs and even some atypical medications so far. And that I can't bear to push through when working too much makes me so distraught and bored that I get suicidal.

So yeah, I'm a NEET. I have an official disabled status, too, and I've been applying for financial aid only to be rejected several times. But people with worse conditions than mine get rejected, too. It's just how my country's social insurance organization works. You have to take them to court to get anything at all out of them. Even for minor cases.

I got denied again recently, so it's going to court now. The court tends to take the civilian's side and my mom has my back, so I'm surprisingly hopeful.

I wish I could get working treatment soon. I want to be a functional member of society so bad. Or at least to feel happy. I don't find the idea of working 8 hours at a dead end minimum wage job enticing. I want to be a doctor someday, instead. I want to finish high school and go to an university. I want to be able to help people just like us.
 
MrBlue

MrBlue

Arcanist
Jul 1, 2020
416
Technically I am atm, I've finally managed to get my first job and waiting to see if pre-employment checks come through ok. Hopefully I'll be able to cope with it or I'll end up back as a NEET.
 
SwagGalore

SwagGalore

Hugging boyfriend hours B)
Nov 27, 2020
24
I was for a few months during a psychiatric emergency in high school. My parents were such jerks about it that I'm too scarred to ever live that way again.

I told my boyfriend I would rather die than NEET/live on disability because I would feel like such a useless sack of shit. And yeah, I think my family instilled that in me. They'll probably come to regret it soon, now that I'm finding no success with treatment.
 
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Cashewmilk

Cashewmilk

Specialist
Mar 10, 2020
352
Yep I am, I'm in the subreddit too it's pretty cool you should check it out. I feel like I was born to be a neet, I've been one basically my entire life since dropping out of HS in 10th grade. But all throughout school I had difficulties with attendance and performance, it was like pulling teeth for me to go to school or do my homework, I actually did fail or almost fail every grade in elementary school but they don't hold you back like they do in the US or in American tv shows lol, at least in my district, except grade 5 I actually got As and Bs because my teacher was amazing and I was in a good class and home life was good. All I wanted to do was stay at home and relax, and do what I want. I don't know why I'm like this, it sounds entitled, maybe I was spoiled with way too much obsessive affection from my mom at a very early age? Who knows. She did the same thing to my younger sister and she turned out fine, she's in university and was a straight A student every year. I think it was because of the destructive and catastrophic events that happened as well, and inheritance of mental illness from my dad. I also have physical and mental weaknesses that make it impossible for me to work at a normal job at all, and it's only gotten worse with age and plus I've been addicted to opiates for the past 11 years, now I'm absolutely unable to do any type of work away from home for long periods of time. The only thing I can think of is a very part time job sitting at a desk, like 3 to 4 hrs a day with lots of breaks lol, but yeah those types of jobs don't really exist around here for HS drop outs! There's only fast food and slave labor which I can't do.

I don't mind being NEET, I wish I could just be neet for life, but sadly I can't. I'm not rich and my family isn't, and this charade won't last forever, sooner or later my bubble will burst, I'm living on delicate eggshells right now and my whole world can come crashing down at any minute. Even though I wish to just die right now, it's not that bad yet, but it will be for sure if I lose my main source of stability = my mother who is in her late fifties. But yeah, again, I have no clue why I was born like this. And I was really born like this, since kindergarten for as long as I can remember, I've always wanted to be a neet. And I just hate so many aspects of life like chores, cleaning, doing dishes, and now because of my drug addiction I even forego showers and brushing teeth...I just started brushing and flossing more often because of so many tooth infections. I even hated eating food at one point, I still do but not as much. I just have always hated life, and the only thing I wanted to do was doing whatever I wanted to do, even if it's just doing nothing at all, and it's not about having fun or going out or having parties I don't do that anymore I'm a total hermit, it's just about having motivation and not being told what to do, I absolutely hate being told and forced to do something when I truly don't want to. I don't know why I am this way.
 
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Deleted member 17949

Deleted member 17949

Visionary
May 9, 2020
2,240
I'm in school, looks like I will be dropping out though so guess I will be a NEET soon
 
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mathieu

mathieu

Enlightened
Jun 5, 2019
1,091
Yes, I survive on disability payments. Total scum.
 
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