Your shut-in/NEET experience

[solstice258]

My longest hikikomori streak was during Covid lockdowns. I enjoyed it but it deteriorated my already weak ability to disguise as a normal human.

 

[kohelemon]

NYAH, i was summoned? neet? yes? how'd it go, just about as well as one could expect it to go for one who barely talks to anyone. so nothing really happened. went off about as well as a grenade exploding in space.

 

[MilkDrinker]

Yes, several years, and it has made me irreparably retarded.
Horrible idea, don't do it. Always have an income.

 

[OldVice]

I was like that for a while after I got expelled from high school.

Pretty much all of my friends decided they were going to start their drug addict arc around that time, and the ones that didn't, moved to another part of the country, or another country for school.

Lost contact with pretty much everyone and barely ever left my house. I'm actually surprised my parents didn't kick my useless ass out back then.

 

[UnnamedPlayer]

How you deal with your NEET-state depend on if it's something you have to face because you don't find any opportunities in life or because you're just depressed, lazy, burn-out and in need of rest or whatever. Between a choice and between something you have to face, it's totaly different. If it's a "choice", you have hope and you know you can recover and return to normal life after some time. But if it's not, there is not that much hope for your future. Also, when you're young (30-30), it's mostly a "choice", but it's always a lack of opportunities when you're older/30+.

 

[TestAddress]

Using the internet and being NEET has a very very VERY HIGH correlation.

 

[TestAddress]

I was like that for a while after I got expelled from high school.

Pretty much all of my friends decided they were going to start their drug addict arc around that time, and the ones that didn't, moved to another part of the country, or another country for school.

Lost contact with pretty much everyone and barely ever left my house. I'm actually surprised my parents didn't kick my useless ass out back then.

Parents knew what goes around comes around. Guess what they will be staying now they are 70 - 80s.

 

[TestAddress]

I spent a couple of periods of unemployment in my 20's that were probably long enough to qualify (though never more than 9 months), but I feel like there's a difference between what I was doing (being lazy and smoking A LOT of marijuana while waiting for a job to fall into my lap, which it always eventually did) and being a dedicated NEET (not even looking for work, and actively avoiding it when it came looking).

Strange, I knew unemployment starts at 40+. This is why they put the slogan "life begins at 40." The age they kick people out of a company.

 

[Angry_Panda]

Strange, I knew unemployment starts at 40+. This is why they put the slogan "life begins at 40." The age they kick people out of a company.

See, the trick is to find a job that you can do well, that is critical to the operation of the company, and that no one else understands. My employer can't fire me at this point - they'd be fucked.

 

[OldVice]

Parents knew what goes around comes around. Guess what they will be staying now they are 70 - 80s.

Unfortunately, my dad barely made it past 60 and I still miss him all the time. I'm doing as much as I can at this point to make sure my mother sticks around as long as possible.

There is a lot of good and bad that came out of that entire situation back then.

The good parts are that after I got out of that rut and decided to get on with my life, I found a stable job and eventually ended up working for a fairly successful robotics company. Also, some of my friends were able to turn their lives around and are living a happy and normal life now.

The bad..... well, as expected a bunch of my old friends are in jail or dead. Having to see their parents as a broken mess at their funerals was pretty heart breaking.