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>>222729 (OP)I'm a 33 year old NEET, been NEETing for 15ish years now. I got NEETbux back in 2012 for various mental issues. I want to say I'm a happy NEET but it's hard to be one sometimes. NEETbux only go so far, so you kinda live life on the poorer end of the spectrum. Plus lack of social interaction does take it's toll on you at the start. A lot of times I'm content and happy but current situations in life make it hard. Death of a close family member, constant stress over my disability being under review, etc etc. It can be hard to be happy-go-lucky all the time, even if you work or NEET. Sometimes life just gets to you.
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Bumperino
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I had it for a short while due to an industrial injury and then my NEETbux got cancelled - in part because I *was* happy and no longer wound in on myself in misery.
During the year or so (2016-2017~) what happened was:
1. I finished consuming all the recreation I wanted to consume at that time, which was something like 800 hrs of animu and 4,000 hours of vidya (guild wars was a big part of that)
2. I learned a couple new skills - soldering and designing for laser cutters - which I still enjoy to this day
3. I got the fittest and healthiest i've ever been in my life because I could just walk down (2~ miles) to a bakery I liked every morning for fresh pastries and enjoy a good soundtrack.
And then at some point it went wonky. I lost any sense of accomplishment or enjoyment from what I was doing and I started becoming self destructive. Shortly after that my NEETbux were cancelled as I got bit by pride and evidently presented myself as "I'm ok now" and I had to go back to work. I think if I'd been NEETing from day one like some of my dropout acquaintances I'd have managed to adapt, but I suppose it's just as well.
It definitely gave me a taste for that life which is why I tried (and failed) to get back to it with stock market fuckery in early 2020. Not Gamestop, but I got railed by trump's stimulus bill and lost something on the order of $6000 at which point I gave up until I get a more traditional rent seeking arrangement in place.
[–] No.222770
I turned 25 recently and for about 5 years of my adult life I've been functionally a NEET despite being officially In Education - I am registered as an university student and live in student housing but for the most part don't actually go to any courses. I lived for 2 years on state student support (which far exceeded my spending) and the remaining 3 on the savings I accumulated from it. I wasted a lot of time rotting away feeling miserable, but I also had some good experiences - I loved traveling with my student transit pass and hiking all around my region. I don't want to spend my whole life as a NEET, I dream of doing some kind of interesting and fulfilling work, but as an autistic mental cripple with a half decade hole in my CV and zero qualifications it would be extremely hard to find anything that's not just soul-sucking drudgery.Unemployment benefits are conditional in my country, and I'm not obviously disabled enough to qualify for disability benefits, so I'll probably be forced to do something sooner or later - might try training to be a lab assistant or sysadmin.