r/NEET

i get $500 a week with rent assistance. all i have to do is apply to 20 jobs a month (less if i get an interview for one of them) no one ever hires me since i apply for jobs I'm not qualified for. it's basically free money.

I didn't apply to a single job last reporting period. completely forgot about it. time went by so fast. they are going to continue to pay me but I'm being monitored now and have been assigned a case worker.

because of this I'm almost guaranteed to be forced to get another fuckass warehouse job now.

The YouTube algorithm has shown me some videos of this guy called Clavicular and while he's clearly a weird person I think all the normies hating on him like crazy because of his neurodivergent features (cold appearance, lack of emoting, lack of desire for human connection etc) makes me nervous, like clearly he is eliciting some sympathy because of his good looks but even then they don't seem to consider you human if you show signs of neurodivergence. I keep getting reminded that the whole Chrischan thing started with someone just taking a creepshot of him and posting him only because of his funny appearance. Normies are kinda like doves that always hack the injured bird to death if they find out you're different it seems they just want you dead.

My dream is to make the bare minimum to survive (and maybe even live comfortably) and consume media (anime, video games, shows) to pass the time. Hoping for other people in my life or expecting people to like me is delusional, and I completely believe that. I'm a disappointment to people or uninteresting, so if the day comes where I die alone, I accept it. I'll be glad I wasted my life on my enjoyment instead of forcing myself to be palatable.

Every month, I would daydream about going to back 15 years to fix my life with the knowledge that I know. I know what I want to do, but I don't know if I have enough time. If I could go back in time, I could fix it again. Commit myself to something greater, so that I would not disappoint my family. But I know what I want to do now. Back to when I was a kid/teen. I have the mental clarity to fix my life.

How many of hours do you guys sleep?

agoraphobic, autistic

pretty much incompetent graduated from a alt school where i basically learned nothing so all i know is basic algebra and whatever science fact nonsense ive cobbled together.

i have some cool projects but all abandoned due to lack of motivation or embarrassment. i cant even really imagine myself working. i just wish things were declining more then i could have an excuse. i feel like SUCH a drain and i can barely even bear it.

it’s like every single part of modern society is so backwards so antithetical to life that it just has to go. for people like me to thrive it just has to. it scares me so much to think one day ill probably be living on my parents couch or with roommates in some gov housing nonsense (best case) or homeless/dead and i just don’t know how to cope with it. is that how it ends up? dead or homeless?

I (24F) have been a NEET for the past 6 months and I already feel like im rotting away. I was in the military for 5 years and have not had a job since I got out. I had NO idea how terrible the job market is right now. I live with my husband (28M) and he pays for pretty much all our expenses. He says he supports me getting a job, but keeps pressing that it's "not necessary" over and over again. It honestly kind of feels like he doesn't actually want me to work, but he knows it would sound weird if he actually said that. So he just KEEPS on telling me how "unnecessary" me getting a job would be, and telling me that its "okay to relax". To the point where I know if I really did go out and find work, I think he would actually be disappointed in me. I cant help but feel like he wants me trapped in this apartment, waiting on him all day. My husband is in the military, and we just moved across the country for his new duty location. I know absolutely no one here. He is ONLY person that I know in this whole state. I have ZERO friends and ZERO connections other than him. I am so beyond lonely and bored and I cant stand being in this apartment all day. We don't have kids or anything, so once the daily household chores are done I have absolutely nothing to do. And on top of that... he's been border line making fun of me for being a NEET. He will come home from work and be like "how was being a NEET today?" and he'll even call me "his NEET" with a huge smile plastered on his face, like its some kind of pet name. He doesn’t know that it hurts my feelings, he just thinks its funny, and I’m too embarrassed to tell him that it hurts. he gets to go out to work every day and make new friends and connections in his unit while I stay here and do our laundry. Long story short, I hate being a NEET and my husband doesn't want me to get a job because I think he likes me being so dependent on him. Both financially and socially. I've never felt so lonely and isolated and something needs to change. But this job market is abysmal and not even FAST FOOD places are hiring near me. I literally just want some kind of social circle, even if its just through work. Sorry for the yap sesh but just needed to get this out. I always just read things and never actually post but I’m feeling extra alone these days

i'm just so sick of people, particularly normies, making assumptions about me. i guess my mother counts as a normie too, because she shares the same sentiments as those who judge me.

people who claim that i'm not "vulnerable" enough, that i'm too negative, that i don't try hard enough in life. they know nothing about me and yet they lie to me, thinking that i'm not capable of closeness when their definition of closeness is almost entirely performative. they don't care about emotional resonance, they simply want to hang out with people who don't make them uncomfortable. as soon as i drop the mask, as soon as i am honest about my feelings, they all just fuck off.

i don't know. maybe my standards really are a bit too high. i guess i'm looking for a "soulmate" in platonic form. someone who understands me without my having to translate for them.

p.s. if you come into my thread just to only talk about your life, then i'd appreciate it if you could make your own thread please.

Not long ago, I heard this: a poor man and an ugly woman can truly understand how the world works. Once you become a NEET and start going deep into introspection, reality breaks down.

This happened to me, and now I see everything as an illusion based on behavioural patterns. If you have a successful career, you're a winner; if you don't work, you're a loser. If you don't produce, you don't belong here.

I think we are neither broken nor sick. The world is. The system is. In this system, there is constant competition to see who has more, and I believe this is not our true nature. I think this world is a paradise, but we have turned it into hell, and that is the reason for our suffering. Does that make sense?

there's a youtuber who moved from america to japan, probably in his early 20s. black guy. and he found a japanese girlfriend and moved in with her parents in their big house and they live together. basically he's living a lot of guys' dream life.

now i thought maybe this guy must be a genius or something. to pull this off, as a black guy (because it's harder for him, i am acknowledging his struggles).. it would require extreme skill and brilliance.

but, he made this error in his video captions twice. he wrote "are" instead of "our"... twice. like "heading to are new house" or "painting are walls" and that made me realize, this dude isn't brilliant at all. he's dumb.

and dumb people get very far in life. it was never about intelligence or capability. it's always been about.. just sheer luck. this guy probably for sure had uncles or grandparents or something that instilled confidence into him, just from loving him and spending time with him as a child.

then he grew up and he was too ignorant to be held back by doubt. just say hi to a random girl who gives a fuck. just meet her parents who gives a fuck. just go to japan who gives a fuck.

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”- Charles Darwin

I prefer cremated, I want my spirit to be freed and nothing tying me to this world.

Im 27. Feel like I'm still 17. Stuck in the past. Depression is eating me away. They say it gets better. It doesn't. Friends are married, have a job, kids and are able to afford vacations while I burn out going to the gym for 1 1/2h. I can't even push myself over the edge anymore to achieve something because my body instantly reacts with either panic attacks, severe pain or "the buzzing"(it feels as if I'm completely overstimulated). The buzzing sucks the most. I never had that shit until my doctor described me wrong dose of medication which led to an overdose and basically fried my brain.

I'm used to go over my limits because otherwise I can't achieve anything and now I can't do that anymore. Which is way I'm literally only laying on the couch all day long. Everything eats up energy.

Even things I technically like.

I'm at the breaking point. Again. Why even bother pursuing hobbies when they eat away my energy just like doing the household. I used to love sports. Now have to drag myself there because I just know I will feel worse afterwards. Same for my other Hobbys. Same for everything.

I feel ashamed. My mother is constantly offering me money which I decline because it should be the other way around. I should take care of her at this point.

I hate my mental illnesses.

I hate my life.

I hate that I'm not normal.

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It may sound like empty words on a screen but I truly hope all of us find peace and contentment. This is the only place where I don't feel like an alien and 100% relate to so many of the posts here, and the mods and people here are chill too which is awesome :)

May all the neets similar to me get empl*yed in the future and the perma neets to receive the best neetbux and tendies

I feel like I should start looking for a job. But it scares the shit out of me cuz I can’t communicate with ppl.My parents are getting older. My mom has arthritis and knee pain and in her 50s and my dad in his 60s with leg pain both are working right now.Idk what kind of job I should do. I don’t even have high school diploma.