/wiz/ - Wizardry

>>222729
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.

Bumperino

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.

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.

Its fine as long as you have financial stability, shelter, health, and goals. Health can be hard to maintain in the NEET life since the life style is so unnatural eg:

- vit d deficiency -> depression
- no exercise -> pain, insomnia, weight gain, lack of energy
- bad diet -> nutritional deficiencies, weight gain

Then before you know it you're so unhealthy that its exponentially harder to claw your health back… and you really need a basic level of health to enjoy hobbies, work towards goals, or w/e. Otherwise you become pseudo-bed bound.

Financial stability and shelter? I mean, western society is like designed to shame NEETs. Norms think that their kids get visited by a fairy at 18 that prepares them for adult life and they can throw them out to survive. They're a bunch of … yeah. Some people shouldn't have kids. Well, most people…

I think what hasn't been covered much on wizchan yet is that the gap between living circumstances for normies and wizards is closing due to horrible economic conditions. In the past: if you were like 30 years old living with the aul ma you would be viewed as some loser. But now I think its going to become increasingly common. I know people here have trouble with working for a number of reasons. However… if there's just no jobs then the result is the same.

Where the NEETs congregate on the interwebs, beside here?

>>222869
one such place is uboachan.net
it's rather inactive though

>>222870
Any more places, i found out r/neet on plebbit.

>>222770
if you didnt take many courses and didnt learn anything in your 5years isnt your life literally over? I highly doubt you will get a good job. you will probably get some trash noone else wants to do. slave labor for pennies. why do you even cope? your life is literally over now.
Im currently in my third year of uni and I tried doing every course but failed because of sloth and not being able to keep up. It has becomen painful to think about my studies and its becomen so bad that I missed the deadline for signing up to certain courses for two semester already. my life is fucked and I just wanna cry because I tried but failed unlike you.

>>222892
This is /wiz/ not /dep/.

Did anyone here has come with the term of being a NEET?

>>222870
Do we really have nowhere else? I feel like I've been forced out of every place on the internet by normtards, there's no comfy anymore

>>222944
There was a time when KVs made up if not a majority or plurality a sizeable minority on 4chad /v/.

>>222892
You are smart. You *had* to know deep down, outsourcing, nepotism and AI will make it so your career and life will never actually begin.

Trying without connections and nepotism was futile.

I'm going to turn 30 in a few months. Thing is, I've kinda found some peace. I understand, I will become a wizard. Does that bother me? No, not really. I have my job, my close friends and family and my hobbies. I've found a peace by not caring what others think. Find your inner peace anon.((wrong thread))

>>222967
>NEET thread
>…my job…

Don't get me wrong, I understand your intention here, they are alright, but still the main focus is NEETdom and how one find peace being a older NEET

If you aren't a normgroid then it's pretty easy to find happiness as a NEET. You learn to enjoy the simpler things in life.

>>222973
Romanticizing poverty isn't necessary.

>>222974
you don't need to be a neet to be poor.
most poor people aren't neets and have to wageslave to survive, as i imagine is your case.

>>222980
I don't have much sympathy for poor people who breed.

>>222976
>>222976
He's not saying something against be a NEET, he was saying that poverty in general is bad and shouldn't be romantize

The only way I've found peace is to work part time and limit my expenses accordingly.
I do a 3 day week, 2 of which I work from home.
The anxiety around NEETbux potentially being taken away was worse for me than just working.

>>222980
There's a reason why more young men are dropping out of the workforce. Why even bother to get a job when you won't be financially better for it?

>>223002
Finding a part-time job that you can do from home is like winning the lottery

>>222729
So what do you do when your parents die?