>Danny, a 22-year-old who lives with his parents, has found little satisfaction in a series of part-time, low-wage jobs he’s held since earning an associate degree. But the video games he plays are a different story.
>“When I play a game, I know if I have a few hours I will be rewarded. With a job, it’s always been up in the air with the amount of work I put in and the reward.”
>He represents a group of video-game-loving Americans who, according to new research, may help explain one of the most alarming aspects of the nation’s economic recovery: an unusually large percentage of able-bodied men, particularly the young and less-educated, are either not working or not working full-time.
>Economists say that an additional reason many of these young men - who don't have college degrees -- are rejecting work is that they have a better alternative: living at home and enjoying video games. The decision may not even be completely conscious, but surveys suggest that young men are happier for it.
>While young men might temporarily enjoy a life of leisure, the implications could be troubling for them as well as the economy. The young men aren’t gaining job experience that will better equip them to work in their 30s and 40s. That could lead to a lifetime of decreased wages, limited opportunities and challenges such as depression and drug use — problems that the United States is already seeing in areas hit with heavy job losses.
>If a historically vibrant portion of the population doesn’t feel as much desire to work, this could harm the economy’s future and the ability of government to use policy to create jobs.
>A few decades ago, an unemployed person might be stuck on the couch watching TV, isolated and depressed. Today, cheap or free services such as Facebook, Snapchat, YouTube and Netflix provide seemingly endless entertainment options and an easy connection to the outside world. Video games, in particular, provide a strong community and a sense of achievement that, for some, real-world jobs lack. >Jacob Barry, a 21-year-old from Grosse Point, Mich., who works part-time making sandwiches at a Jimmy John’s and dreams of becoming a therapist, says the community — as well as a sense of escape — is what draws him to video games. After logging as many as 40 hours per week playing games, Barry realized that he was using games as a way to avoid the pressures of working life. “Honestly, I realized it was a bad thing when my mom would say things like, ‘When are you going to go apply for these jobs? When are you going to go back to school?’ And then in the back of my mind I kept hearing fun facts about these games.”
>Barry dropped out of college because he was not sure the high cost of tuition would pay off, but he now feels stuck in a minimum-wage food service job. He wishes he could find a career like his grandfather, who joined the phone company after high school and worked there for decades. “But there’s no option to do that,” he says.
>The researchers are not merely saying that young men, out of work, are turning to video games. They're saying that increasingly sophisticated video games are luring young men away from the workforce.
>The situation does not appear to be weighing on their happiness. Data shows that young non-college men actually report being happier than in the early 2000s, with the percentage of men saying they are very or pretty happy rising from 81 percent to 88 percent. In the same period, the reported happiness of other groups remained constant or fell.
Justin Cook
hey look it's this thread again!
Jacob Peterson
Hits too close to home?
Jack King
>most jobs have ridiculous standards >people are not willing to spend thousands of dollars and thousands of hours just to get a job that pays 15/Hr or less >blame video games
Sad
Elijah Carter
I have no degree and I make 18/hr at fedex.
Noah Barnes
Why bust your ass working for a pittance when you can just collect welfare and have fun?
If you want to fix this issue, you need to abolish the welfare state. I'm sure that will happen in a country full of niggers and socialists.
Wyatt Scott
>be NEET >don't slave away 10 hours every day for the next 50 years >don't bother with shitty jobs and jewish bosses >wake up whenever I want >play videogames all day if I want to >can watch as much movies and TV shows as I want >smoke weed or get drunk whenever I want >nobody is the boss of me >can sleep as much as I want >live like a kang while idiots waste their precious lifetime in some cubicle office >have enough time for a good workout to keep my body fit >only learn things that are fun and don't bother with anything that isn't fun (unlike wagey slavey) >still save up enough cash through gibsmedat so I can go on vacation 2 times a year >before I go on vacation I chat up a random girl online and then live with her and fuck her brains out >normalfags literally pay for my lifestyle >mfw NEET forever and no end in sight
feeeeeeeeels goooooooooooood niiiigggguuuuh
PS fuck your economy
Aaron Garcia
kill yourself
Henry Gutierrez
>why arent you lining my pockets with shekels goy, must be videogames
good thread
Aaron Anderson
>I'm sure that will happen in a country full of niggers and socialists. It will happen whether they like it or not.
The money is running out. Or rather has run out, it's all just debt and inflation now. The collapse is inevitable.
The sky won't fall though, people will just get jobs. The "urban population" will probably riot though.
Hunter White
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Austin Hill
I'm actually getting my masters while working at a full time job.
I also enjoy vidya, though.
Tyler Brooks
Exactly
The researchers sound more worried about people not attending higher education and blame it on video games
I make nearly a consistent $25/hr in electrical engineering and only went to trade school for less than a year .
Logan Morgan
>what is balance?
i just study for 9 hours per day, then the rest of the day i relax
Ryder Scott
Check your privilege. Unironically. Not everyone has friends or family that will give them a job for free. Or live somewhere with jobs avaible. Or have the looks or personality that employers are looking for. Kys.
Joseph Lopez
Holy shit NEET become something normies could easily fall into?
They don't even have the regular loner excuses that NEET have, this is just plain laziness choosing not to do anything despite being normal.
Brayden Roberts
Hey, these threads are back. >washington post >Reliable source baka desu senpai Honestly I'm starting to see the apeals of wizarding. Stock markets are now a complete sham, the dollar is helicopter money actually based on debt, backed not by gold but war, and it's still losing value, even if the fed reserve says it's not.
Anyone not investing in precious metals right now is a chump, and people who'll willingly apply for thousands of bucks in loans for the name brand of whatever SJW-infested "High education" college they want is a moron.
I really am starting to see the appeal in NEETdom.
Gavin Baker
It's a symptom of a larger problem. In our world, there isn't much pressure for a man to succeed and do well due to the destruction of the family. A guy doesn't need much to support himself. Any basic wageslave job will do. But if you have a wife in kids, then you have to make sure to work as hard as you can to feed and take care of everyone. Without that incentive, men won't rise up and do better for themselves. They'll be content playing vidya or some shit.
Justin Garcia
Why have there never been articles on women that watch soap operas all day? Nowadays it would be Netflix but it's the same shit.
Ian Smith
>>A few decades ago, an unemployed person might be stuck on the couch watching TV, isolated and depressed. I thought this was ubiquitous image of American employed person.
Lincoln Diaz
That quote sounds so fake
Levi Harris
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Cameron Howard
>whole functional system destroyed by industrial revolution and feminism
>most of us work our asses for niggers on benefits, chads fucking our girls, women and rich, especially for (((Skypes)))
>privileged have everything by inheritance, lucky genetics or luck
>they still all blame vidya and us for just saying 'fuck it all' and finally relax.
i tried to do my best, now when nature and society betrayed me ill watch world burn, comfy as a neet, thank you
Brayden Wood
Living the dream Hans, living the dream. In all serious, if my government hated me half as much as they do you, I'd go full NEET too.
Christopher White
Can I live in your welfare state?
Eli Wright
Kill yourself you fucking subhuma n degenreate!!
a real whit eman loves WÖRKING
WÖRK is life, WÖRK, is what makes us
NOT LAZY GLUTTONY AND FAPPING
A REAL WHITE MAN LOVES WÖRKING, PAYING TAXES
I don't even want to retire, I love my wörk so much
You're a shitskin mongrel subhuman!"!!!!
Brandon Bennett
Why does this upset you autists? This obvious shit. Grow up and get a fucking job.
Owen Barnes
The parents should kick them out and stop financing their addiction. I love video games and anime but I have to work full time to support those hobbies.
Christian Davis
The military is always looking.
Ryan Nelson
How much autismbux do they get in Germany?
Luis Russell
>playing singleplayer >from the SIDE of the TV WHY
Ayden Hernandez
So they can take a picture of him and the screen at the same time
Thomas Campbell
Becusae cameraman needs to stand somewhere.
Adrian Cox
>I could works shitty job with low pay, no benefits, and extremely limited opportunities, or I could masturbate and play video games
No shit
Andrew Adams
>That could lead to a lifetime of decreased wages, limited opportunities and challenges such as depression and drug use
Already too late. Vidya is my drug.
Ayden Martin
>Doesn't have aspbergers
Julian Wright
yea fuck them all they can suck my fat NEET cock
fuck off we're full
go working for my Hartz Bux you fucking loser
hush hush back to wörk wörk wörk while I get stoned
ahahahahaha
about three fiddy
Landon Price
>German >"whites love working" Stop confirming the stereotype
Dominic Reyes
Can't wait until I have one of these in my in my parents basement
Evan Torres
Refugee detected.
Robert Perez
You're basically a modern day peasant... The only difference being, peasants at least worked the land they lived off of.
How does it feel to be a literally pleb?
David Gray
I make $22/hour at Nationwide Insurance. Work in a cubicle for fucks sake you NEETS have literally been doing it your whole life. Talk on a phone using basic computer knowledge to navigate the screens. Any angry customers is nothing compared to the autists who cuss online. I got a raise for teaching my team how to make multiple tabs their homepage, it's fucking stupid. Did you all gain no skills while being a NEET?
Brody Bennett
I am a neet living on my own with €1200 disabillity funds and housing benefits.
I can 100% say our system is broken and unfair but i'll be damned if i don't play with the cards that were dealt to me.
Nathan Torres
Funny I deleted all my games (apart from Civ5 on PC and chess on my tablet) and having my first day not smoking weed in years.
Ryder Thompson
Let me explain to you why a basement-dwelling NEET is the master race.
We do not pay our rent, we have an endless supply of Hot pockets and Mountain Dew and our gaming rigs are always up to date complete with bookshelves full of the latest vidya and anime Blu-Rays. We do not need to pay for all this luxury, because the society will for it with money earned by wage slaves. We are more knowledgeable on any given subject than the lowly peasants that serve us because we have all the time in the world to gather information and skills.
Remember how you used to make fun of "nerds" for spending all their time on computers? Well, now those nerds have grown up and in this world where everything is run by computers our technological aptitude rewards us with power. We are the true elite of this world because we get everything we want without having to work a single day. You may try to say "b-but you don't have girlfriends!" and you will be right- we do not have leeches that drain our bank accounts and tell us what to do. We are beyond such simple needs and those of us who feel the need for a girl have found more than adequate substitutes in our waifus, our sex dolls or our dragon dildos.
We do as we please, and this is why you brainless worker drones hate us. And when you push us to the edge, we will retaliate with deadly force when push comes to shove there is nothing you can do to stop our onslaught. You are powerless against us and you know it- the only way to appease your masters is to accept the circumstances and treat us with the dignity and respect that the true aristocracy of western world requires.
We are the master race. Now bow to your new lords.
Henry Taylor
>I got a raise for teaching my team how to make multiple tabs their homepage
Jesus Christ
I can't wait until all the boomers are dead
Chase Mitchell
> oh my god why are all these disenchanted young men not playing our psychopathic meaningless tedium?! > why arn't they having half their shit stolen by whores posing as wives?! > why arn't they using what meager funds they possess and having them lost in some investment scam in the stocks or housing market?! > why arn't they throwing their bodies in front of bullets to die for a rich man's ambitions?! > why arn't they supporting the systems that will inevitably cause the deaths of billions and the destruction of the only known sentient life in the galaxy?!
> these people who've done nothing to hurt any one and refuse to participate in the systematic abuse since pre-history, they're the problem!
fuck off
Jacob Reed
>muh economy Don't call it a grave, it's the future you chose
Austin Murphy
I know most of you NEET fags are in your late teens or early 20's but believe me this hits you hard once you hit your mid-20's.
When I hit that age I thought I had wasted my life and seriously contemplated suicide. Instead I learnt to code and now have a relatively comfy job with good prospects. I'd hate to think what I would be if I hadn't woke up till I was 30 or later. I massively regret my wasted years but at least I still have time for a fulfilling life and a family.
Nicholas Murphy
Work sucks. Its hard, there is pressure, you have to go above and beyond to be considered for promotion, the money is always getting worse.
I wish I could pack it in.
Zachary Roberts
Typical Kraut
Jason Cooper
>That situation does not appear to be weighing on their happiness. Data from the General Social Survey, a national survey of several thousand people, shows that young non-college men actually report being happier than in the early 2000s, with the percentage of men saying they are very or pretty happy rising from 81 percent to 88 percent. In the same period, the reported happiness of other groups remained constant or fell.
>In the same period, the reported happiness of other groups remained constant or fell.
Nathan Anderson
NEETs aren't the disease, they're the symptom. Fix the system and it problem goes away.
What incentive does a man have to improve his life, if all his personal needs are met? Take away to prospect of raising a family through feminism and unjust laws, demand increasingly higher taxes to offset the poor performance of women and minorities, create more and more nanny-state laws, fill the media with anti-male propaganda -- and what the fuck do you expect? Men are taking their toys and going home.
In this situation, men have literally nothing to lose and everything to gain by simply not participating. The world governments and institutions are collapsing under the weight of their debt as we speak, and there isn't enough wealth on the planet to bail them out -- you think they'll be around 10 years from now? Meanwhile, white men will still be white men in 1,000 years time, and society will still need us a lot more than we need them.
David Nelson
>has found little satisfaction in a series of part-time, low-wage jobs he’s held since earning an associate degree. But the video games he plays are a different story. >market is shit, and videogames are good >Therefore videogames are a problem What am I reading
Colton Gonzalez
>these mad burgers ITT
Lucas Lopez
I quit school when I was 16 and I've been a NEET for little over two years. Gonna try getting a sort of GED-ish thing so I can apply for a job and I'm working on my license. Hopefully I'll be able to un-NEET myself by the time I'm 22 if all goes well.
Logan Rogers
h-hi
Benjamin Green
It's funny. If all German men just said fuck it and went full NEET, the country would collapse and you'd get your revolution in a day
Colton Hughes
I worked a delivery job while I was still in undergrad and got treated like tech support after "fixing" a TV by plugging the hdmi cable back in.
Henry Perry
I woke up mid 20s as well Fucking vidya turned a large portion of my youth to garbage
Blake Miller
This
Who else comfy? I'm comfy. I've accepted the collapse will happen sooner or later (sooner), and that I'll either work my whole life in a shit job, die in a war with Russia, or commit suicide if life becomes too unbearable. Why not live it up now?
Christopher Cook
> I'll greentext you my Monday
>roll around in bed and let the morning sun wake me up at 9AM >get out of bed slowly >brush my teeth, shave, shower and clean my face >apply lotion to skin to stay a smooth NEET >make a delicious breakfast and eat it on the balcony while enjoying the sun >go to computer and browse the internet a bit >shitpost and check out the news >played videogames with my new oculus rift for a bit >started cooking lunch (delicous Schnitzel and potatos mmmh yummy) >ate and cleaned up >browsed the internet for another hour while enjoying myself >started doing my workout which takes around 2 hours (4 times a week) >took a refreshing shower and was mirrin myself in the mirror, such a Handsome NEET dayum >now shitposting and getting high while laughing about wageslave losers which are the true modern day peseants because NEET = KANGS
Owen Phillips
That's what I've been saying to others here who complain about men playing video games.
The world sucks and men are escaping it through digital medium. Same could be said of any other form of escapism via drugs or social media.
Fix the problems in our society and we will have a greater incentive to re-enter it. Those who complain of men dropping out need to find the impetus of it all underneath what is displayed.
Jeremiah Hughes
Throughout the ages men worked not because they've enjoyed backbreaking labour - they worked because they wanted to provide for their family
a loyal and loving wife that is waiting at your home with your children is the reason why men would work hard everyday
at current day and age however women are whores, abortion is treated like candies and merrige as an institution is on its last legs - in other words there are no incentives to look for the future as there is nothing waiting for you there
those young men are making rational decisions why work to ulimetaly gain nothing if you can play and at least for a moment have fun?
Joshua Ortiz
>has an associate degree >still has a shit job explain pls
Easton Murphy
Good luck raising a family on 18$/hour
Brayden Howard
>Meanwhile, white men will still be white men in 1,000 years time, and society will still need us a lot more than we need them. Well they're working on that problem with mass 3rd world immigration
Nathaniel Ortiz
AAs and AS degrees are a waste of time and don't qualify you for anything. More likely they'll make entry level jobs less willing to hire you.
Jackson Sullivan
Same except no vacations >tfw free apartment in one of the whiter areas of Sweden
Levi Bennett
If he has no degree at all he's probably younger, that's plenty of time to advance or find a different job entirely. He's making almost 38 grand a year before taxes right now, a single guy can live comfortably off of that.
Thomas Taylor
>tfw 27 year old NEET >Look 19 and i still get young chicks >wage cuck friends are fat, have grey hair and ugly girlfriends.
Luke Thomas
>Having a family in 2016
What a dumb leaf.
Ayden Fisher
Aren't skilled trade educations considered associate degrees?
Thomas Cox
Im way ahead of the curve on this one, I got completely addicted to video games in the 80s, and it only got worse with time, especially after doom and quake came out
now I'm 40, have no ambition, no training or prospects, no confidence, no friends or family, I find it increasingly difficult to find satisfaction from my old distractions, I'm afraid of old age, and the ghost of severe depression and even full on manic despair is always hanging overhead
the entire reason why I enjoy this place so much is that it lets me view the destruction of the world, I hope for the end of the world without irony and without a hint of despair, in fact its one of the only things that makes me really happy in the real world
Xavier Nguyen
desu if I did not love my job I'd be looking to get autismbux aswell
Lincoln Rogers
>with mass 3rd world immigration even more of a reason to avoid society desu
Joshua Cook
>tfw super soft pale skin >tfw wage cucks get skin cancer for fun and look like 40 when they're late 20s
Dylan Walker
Fuck guys.... I just... I just can't anymore. You know?
Jaxon Morales
Interesting topic I have recentely identified that the reason why i am so unsatisfied with life and kind of depressed is because i was expecting a big main quest out of life, but so far all i get are side quests..and side quests rewards and rep are shit as we all know
getting that main quest just doesnt happen for most people
Wyatt Richardson
Remember that sistematic unenployment is a consequence of politics and not the economy
Easton Young
I wish I could leech off the system or something all my life and just live the NEET life.
I've been unemployed for the last two months and in all honesty, I'm the happiest I've ever been, having so much fun doing what I want and waking up whenever I want.
The only reason I'm still looking for a job and willing to work is because it's not the government that gives me money but rather my father, who doesn't want me to be a NEET.
Fuck the economy, fuck society, fuck women, fuck working and fuck everything. All I care about is me and my videogames.
Andrew Scott
vad är ditt jobbet Sven?
Connor Cook
Yeah. I got a quarter life crisis when I hit 25.
But I don't think those years were wasted. They led me to my path so they were well spent. And I don't have any delusions about starting a family in the (((current year))).
Aiden Lopez
Games aren't even that good anymore. These manchildren have bad taste.
Leo Thompson
Smart NEETs will either kill themselves or reform their life after a year or two because they realize that they're totally dependent on government handouts. You either work for your own future, or you wait until the government chooses one for you.
It only works if you're dumb enough to believe you'll get a free ride forever and don't dread the day they force you into slave labor.
Nathaniel Ramirez
So cultural Marxism is to blame?
Angel Rivera
>shitty BLOODY SCREEN SO REAL fps games >amazing video games
More like why people's low standards of quality and poor taste is a problem.
Brandon Stewart
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John Baker
Turns out majoring in underwater feminist studies doesn't automatically mean you will get a good job when you graduate
Brayden Cook
Won't matter, if anything that'll just exacerbate the problem -- just more people to starve to death or be killed in riots. White people will be just fine, because when we stop producing enough excess, the gibs dry up and those who can't provide for themselves won't make it.
I can live just fine off dried beans, rice, fish and my garden -- all things I have in abundance. Can TreyQuan and Ahmed say the same? Doubt it.
Ayden Nguyen
>just get a job
Yeah just let me put on my job helmet and crawl into the job cannon and fire myself off into job land.
Daniel Perez
What a rewarding lifestyle, I hope it's always as satisfying as it is now. (srs)
Nathaniel Clark
Pretty much this, no one usually likes working but people who do usually do it because they have to. Either they can't get NEET bucks, have a family to support or really like to buy shit. Hell best time I've had in the last 6 years are the two weeks I got off after a surgery. Seriously unless you're following a passion fuck work.
Joseph Watson
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Dylan James
How long until stuff gets bad?
Carson Scott
This. I'm 25 (about to turn 26) and people still think I'm 18 or 19. My wageslave friends/acquaintences are all younger than me (18-23) but look older (late 20s-mid 30s)
Jason Cox
All I see is OY VAY GOY WHY ARNT YOU MAKING ME SHEKELS
Carson Martinez
Truly the spirit of Cred Forums. Stay in good health, fellow NEET.
Joshua Cooper
WW3
Wyatt Davis
They really aren't. Western countries are actually importing even bigger welfare consumers than their native residents. I can't make much sense of it.
Even the vaunted "hard working Mexicans" consume far more in welfare, healthcare and education than they produce in tax revenue
Jonathan Wood
Bachelor's degrees get handed out to literal retards these days, which is why most companies require them for entry level work. It's the new high school diploma, which makes anything less than that worth about as much as a good roll of toilet paper.
Oliver Williams
>Bow to your new lords How about you fuck off and stop being such a faggot?
Gabriel Long
more or less yeah, we have replaced 10 commandments with 7 deadly sins and decided to follow them as guidlines instead
also being able to witness the fall of our civilisation is both exciting, thrilling and terrifying at the same time
Luke Perry
BECAUSE YOU DUMB GOY- I mean, uninformed person, less people working less jobs means I can't laze around getting payed six figures telling wagemonkeys what to do.
Now go apply for that nice cashier position so I can take eight vacations a year.
Ryan Wright
its a big contributer, one of many factors as to why things are the way they are now.
Asher Myers
What sort of electrical engineering?
Luke Cruz
>thinking in extremeties The answer to the neet/wagecuck divide and conquer scenario is balance. I cant believe people keep falling for it
Hunter Jenkins
Haven't played anything for over a year and I've been NEETing for the last few months.
Julian Hernandez
>50% of population doesn't work >Jews won't know what to do when their economy shits itself Just as planned
Ryder Walker
You are making Pete proud
Isaac Jenkins
>Young goyim are diminishing """their""" future profits Glorious, isn't it?
John Baker
Can you then tell us where stable jobs can be had then that will not cost us money to learn a trade?
Jaxson Taylor
>wageslaves
Oliver Martin
>B8ING 4 THE (YOU)s >4 POSTS BY THIS DICK HEAD
Kayden Gutierrez
its not. i am there. No singleplayer or multiplayer gives me the same (or even close) satisfaction as it once did.
An user once explained how deep down after 26 or 30 we know we should be our own man, we know we should be doing x or y, and we cannot get the same emotions from video games we once did..it was really good it even got turned into a feels pasta that is posted often
after you enter this area...its nothing but hollow depression. Even playing games is a chore to me now
Henry Foster
WHO THE FUCK PLAYS VIDEO GAMES LIKE THAT
Jaxon Morgan
I'm halfway through my economics bachelor, but sometimes I wonder whether or not it's worth it. I'll be making good money, but it's just not enough. Sometimes I just want to quit, stay at home and only leave the house to work out
Colton Diaz
Cause you don't work for it, all you do is shitpost instead of improving your skills
Isaac Johnson
THE BEAUTIFUL ONES
Nolan Martin
>work endless hours over years to become a middle manager at retail box store
or
>become wizard at 30
it's not even a choice
Charles Rodriguez
if you work you support (sand)google immigration into your country through taxes if you leech you weaken immigration into your country by taking funds away
>being a neet on autismbux is actually redpilled
Tyler Morales
All I see is >oy vey goyim I know we shipped off all your bluecollar jobs overseas and all you have is mcdonalds but why aren't you working full time? I worked at a factory and had a stay at home wife and raised 5 kids, just pull on your bootstraps kid
>what? you want to be a tradesman? Better go to college and spend 15k and get all your (((certificates))) >REEEEEEEE
Camden Evans
Same, I always get compliments from girls that I look so fresh and that I have such a relaxed attitude.
Feels fucking good man
>mfw outliving the wageslaves who rott in their graves while i'm still fresh af
amen brother
oh it is, I never felt better actually. I'm in good shape, I never wake up stressed or in a hurry, I feel awesome. I have high self esteem because of my looks that I aquired in my NEET time. It makes me happy to be in my body and in my place.
Kayden Hall
cool, you can use those extra years to sling your boipucci to Tyrone
Eli Martinez
Wait so let me get this, video games could be too alluring to young men and many of them choose them over getting a job thus they refuse to become independent since they don't have a flow of money.
Though violent video games are the cause for shootings even though you need money to purchase a gun? They encourage these young men that are addicted to them to go outside and leave their parents houses?
Jordan Allen
How much do you make with neetbux?
Angel Hall
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Asher Ward
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Jayden Nelson
That cunt's going to get square eyes sitting that close.
Logan Stewart
I make 1100 euros per month.
Chase Hill
Finding a low wage job here is next to impossible unless you want to clean toilets.
Elijah Rivera
>this could harm the economy’s future I don't see the problem. I'm sure the globalist do though.
Matthew Martinez
I work a 70 hour week and this user is right.
My life is miserable, and I exist only for work. I catch an hour or two on imageboards maybe every second day. Make a few shitposts, kek, get back to work. I don't even have time for DS games anymore. Much less life improvement. Career progression. Hobbies. I haven't been out drinking in over 3 years. I just work. It's an endless cycle of pointless jobbery with no security or reward.
I envy the NEET. No, I applaud him. He has found contentment in his squalor, and I begrudge him not.
I gladly pay my taxes so that some few, some happy few, might spend a few hours enjoying the world like I once did. That they might tell tales of vidya played, or projects done, or books a-read, or just make a nice meme about the latest anime. Let them live the life I never can now.
I don't have kids and almost certainly never will. So, let the NEETs be my children. Let me labour that they might play in the sun. Let their sound of their e-laughter be my reward.
Jacob Hernandez
(1/2) I'm 26.
I started at 19 doing basic desktop support and worked my way into running literally everything IT at my small company. Started at $23k/yr, ended up at $51k in 4 years. Then my company got bought, they destroyed everything I built and slowly fired everyone around me (we lost 3 departments total and only retained IT and customer support, executives got raises)
About a year into the job I virtualized 80% of the network down to 3 large servers and had a lot of extra power to use (not using the power actually lower what's called "PUE" ratio, and it cost me less to buy more servers to play with than to have guys remove the power infrastructure) so I started building Bitcoin mining servers.
I had over $400k in BTC before I left there and realized the entire system is a complete fucking joke. I made more money by just running a couple servers for a few months than all of the engineering and user testing and painstaking configuration over the course of fucking YEARS. My retarded mulatto manager found out I had been using the servers for BTC mining (he had no idea what the budget was for, the fact that we bought them to "go green" or what BTC was until a coworker explained it to him) and then demanded I give up the money. I told him the servers were being used to test VDI (they actually were at the time he was told) and showed him there was no BTC. The next day I sold $25k worth of BTC and bought a Scion FR-S.
This dude wanted to take credit for something I did that was relatively oblique of our business model, an innovation that only I had the foresight to be invested in. And that's when I started getting redpilled. I realized this dude was making 3x what I was making and bringing less to the table, and that because of my being white and him being brown that I'd never be running things. I lost all confidence in any hope for the future and just fucking left. Found out they hired a guy to do what I was doing for DOUBLE what I was getting paid.
Xavier Nguyen
>neetbux makes more money than I do working
Fuck this shit, I'm moving to Germany and claiming I'm a Syrian refugee.
Gibt mir das geld bitte
Blake Hernandez
Lol I'm actually at tradesman and I pay nearly 50k tax a year here im paying a low income job a year
Ayden Powell
Mfw when NEETS became the counter culture
David Brown
an unusually large percentage of able-bodied men, particularly the young and less-educated, are either not working or not working full-time Because every single western woman works 12 hours a day 6 days a week in a factory right?
RIGHT????
Easton Sanders
Professional EE. You could make upwards of 18/hr as a journeyman. But, to get into the union, you need to know someone.
Hunter Cox
Neets die eventually, don't worry about it.
Mason Wright
Great reference mate. I enjoy TV too.
Benjamin Taylor
sounds like you're a masochist or some shit like that.
they just drop you off at the local refugee shelter where arabs rape your anus and where gypsie children run around slicing your pants open to steal your spare change.
I probably live til 100+ I got good genes :)
Asher Rivera
it's shock propaganda. they're trying to scare kids into falling for the college debt trap
Zachary Kelly
I work 30 hours a week. They keep asking me to go the full 40 but my bills are paid and video games are fun. Besides the only opportunity I'll get is a pittance promotion to 12 an hour. Not like I can afford a real education. Just a few online classes that'll get me to management for 35-40k a year and a min 70 hour work week. No thanks.
Colton Jones
So you're saying you're so pathetic and such a faggot you'd wish for everyone else to be unhappy instead of just killing yourself? This is your future NEETs, treat this poster as a tale of caution.
>the only thing that makes me happy is the potential apocalypse >but I'm too much of a pussy to just kill myself and create my own end of world scenario
Samuel Rodriguez
That's a fucking BMW what retard made this?
Jaxson Smith
Yeah I don't know how it is elsewhere but government funded loans have not only destroyed the point of going to college but is even starting to fuck over trades too.
Brody Ward
(2/2) The system is fucking stupid and anybody who thinks our economy is based on more than just emotions and what rich people want (BTC is only valuable because rich assholes use it to hide and transport their cash)
I'm not going back to working for the system in it's current configuration. I've tried and I can't deal with the retarded "diversity hire" managers and the fucking pajeets and having to teach my coworkers the basics of IT. Having a black manager that can't think beyond the next meal is a hell I wouldn't wish on anyone, and I've had to deal with that at two locations.
I just wanted a decent IT job with the possibility of upward mobility and a network to defend. Maybe start a family when I hit 30 or so. Now I realize it's all out of reach.
As soon as I run out of money I'm going to kill myself. The system is so fucked and yet nobody sees it. Not the baby boomers, not the Gen X'ers, nobody.
The only way to fix it is to let it all burn and start anew with different principles. Hopefully ones that align with reality.
John Russell
Get a better job. I'm a ups driver. Some weeks I work 50 hours some weeks up to 60. I still make over $90k a year and have plenty of free time. I've also been around for almost a decade so I get 5 weeks of vacation, 5 option days, and 6 sick days per year. Also have amazing insurance. Just get a better job.
Jayden Myers
Well it was spot on, that bit.
Caleb Perez
I guess that my year of unemployment has been spent on video games instead of searching job sites everyday and submitting resumes according to them at least.
Nathaniel Morgan
That is 3 times the minimum wage here..........
Can I go there somehow?
ALSO FUCK YOU YOU FUCKING NEET AND FUCK MY SHIT COUNTRY
Cameron Wood
...
Logan Adams
WRONG If you can prove that you're capable of doing the job, they'll hire. It's there to weed out non-hackers who don't pack the gear to join their beloved corps
Cooper Bennett
Videogames are for man babies
but women dominate the Universities and the Workforce.
Its either we're dropping out to play games.
Or they're doing much better.
Xavier Price
Auto or manual?
Xavier Adams
>I'd hate to think what I would be if I hadn't woke up till I was 30 or later.
Fuck he's talking about me. Fuck!
Dylan Brown
You'd be lucky to get an apprenticeship here anymore industry is dead thanks to greedy company and union bosses
Christian Wilson
>mfw I make 6 figures and still game 20 hours a week
Charles Martinez
Yknow if you don't an hero (faggot, btw) you might be useful to a redeemed society, so don't be a faggot and don't kill yourself
Jacob Cruz
We're full :D
You probably live with your parents, right? I have a one bedroom apartment with a nice balcony.
Everyone dies eventually, even the universe.
Thomas White
>hate video games >hate social media, have no accounts >four-year degree (philosophy *hold for laughter*) >able-bodied, working a full-time low wage job in a field that makes me suicidal >any lateral career move would not only require more time, school and, by extension, money but wipe out what minuscule clout my current experience provides me >spend my extra time running and refurbishing antique hand tools to keep sane
again, i really hate video games but i can certainly understand this phenomenon.
...this is a slide thread, isn't it?
Aaron Lopez
>Have a decent job giving health benefits and paying well >Solid 40 hours a week if its busy I have to do mandatory overtime >Overtime makes it really stressful >Working like a literal slave nigger and hating life the whole time >Have no free time and once I get home I have like 2-3 hours to do when I want and eat/shower then I have to go to bed >Have to get back up at like 430-5 ish to get ready to go work for another 10 hours Work suck
Jackson Gonzalez
> But, to get into the union, you need to know someone.
And there's the problem.
Lincoln Hughes
As an old fuck with a job and money, I, too, get more fulfillment from video games on some days than from real life.
See, part if the problem is that actual life involves a lot of tedious unrewarding shit. Vidya is all about stimulating your reward circuits with little effort or input.
It's just masturbation, is my point. Not that I'm putting down masturbation.
Blake Jenkins
Lmao let them be. Less competition for me in the work force..
Ayden Thomas
>amazing video games >in the year of our lord 2000+16 Nope, it's all shit and this is just escapism. If you can honestly enjoy a video game released after 2007, you'd have no problem eating a different pile of shit if this wasn't available in order to escape reality.
Wyatt Wilson
i make 10/ hour for a private company.i drive around for about 1/2 of my shift in a company truck picking up and delivering parts. i just started though and theyre willing to teach me about hvac eventually with a big raise if i dont sperg out and total the trucks
Brayden Cook
This Polebro is right
Isaiah Torres
>amazing game >COD on screen
Brandon Allen
How do we fix NEET?
By removing them from technology.
I use to be a useless piece of shit that only cared about video games. I went on a backcountry camping trip in the Rockies mountains and it was like being struck by lightning. Exploring real life gave me purpose to better myself.
A lot of you NEETs are just depressed technology addicted losers. Get the fuck off your asses and go hiking. You'll feel 1000% better.
Eli Walker
Dont worry there aren't many great games anymore.
Tyler Thomas
Forza has improved a lot past 2007.
Ryder Flores
>If you want to fix this issue, you need to abolish the welfare state
If that happened, I would join a clown cult.
Ayden Anderson
>Work >No time for anything >Literally a slave working for pennies, don't even dream of owning a home
>Don't work >Time for anything >Can't do shit because no money, don't even think of moving out of mom's basement
Why is life like this?
Parker James
How do we fix NEET?
Teach them that student debt does not matter; the government will basically give you student loans ridiculously easy for most institutions and that a vocational related associates degree can be just as good or better than a bachelors.
As far as 'fixing' NEETs who don't want to improve?
Fix the welfare state and fix the families that crutch for them.
Jack Carter
Main quests are shit Usually by the time you get some special item from the main quest, it's already outclassed by items you found by grinding.
Everyone knows the best weapons and items come from convoluted sidequests and that you should put off the main quest as long as possible while you do all the sidequests for max exp and items.
Only casuals blow right through the mainquest. They miss all the good shit.
James Davis
its not even that easy, you have to know the right someone.
Where im at, all the mexicans in the union are nepotistic.
Landon White
When are the fuckers going to figure out it's not because of video games but because men want to get married and have kids but not to slags and whores who'll take them in two years and if we don't have that what's the fucking point of a job and all that extraneous shit that we have to earn for it?
Christopher Hughes
Thanks for the advice. I'll just pop it in the bin over here next to my console and enjoy myself more.
Levi Howard
>Graduated last semester with a bullshit degree >Worked at Target for two months, fired for no discernible reason >No career in sight >Parents don't mind me living with them at 25 >Kissless Virgin, Friendless, no chance of starting a family before 40 >Had two manic breakdowns, on heavy psychotropic medications, probably enough to qualify for autismbux >Have $18,000 dollars in stocks left to me by my grandparents I dunno Cred Forums. I'll look for another job, maybe try my hand at online writing, but it looks like the NEET life is calling for me.
Angel Martinez
I'm 31 just woke up really got to get my shit together neet life eventually becomes a lonely hell.
Isaac Perry
because you're too retarded to make money
Jace Sanders
>Denise, a 22-year-old who lives with her roommates, has found little satisfaction in a series of stable, future-oriented relationships she’s held since earning an associate degree. But the social media apps she plays are a different story.
>“When I play an app, I know if I have a few hours I will be rewarded. With a relationship, it’s always been up in the air with the amount of social recognition I get and the reward.”
>She represents a group of social media app-loving Americans who, according to common sense, may help explain one of the most alarming aspects of the nation’s economic recovery: an unusually large percentage of eligible women, particularly the young and greater-educated, are either not accepting stable relationhips or not accepting equitably.working or not working full-time.
>Prudent people say that an additional reason many of these young women - who most certainly have college degrees -- are rejecting relationships is that they have a better alternative: living independently and enjoying social media. The decision may not even be completely conscious, but experience suggests that young women are happier for it.
>While young women might temporarily enjoy a life of leisure, the implications could be troubling for them as well as the economy. The young women aren’t gaining respect for most of the males she meets that will better equip them to be happy in their 30s and 40s. That could lead to a lifetime of decreased security, limited opportunities and challenges such as depression and drug use — problems that the United States is already seeing in areas hit with heavy trust losses.
>If a historically conservative portion of the population doesn’t feel as much desire to be faithful, this could harm the economy’s future and the ability of government to use policy to withdraw wealth from men.
Juan Baker
>mfw it's fucking happening
Caleb Butler
could be worse. you could be me.
woke mid twenties. nothing i could do about it because im sick as fuck and no woman would want me for a husband. cant really work cause im so sick so wouldnt be able to provide for them anyways. late twenties now. about to hit 30. barely getting a little better, worried my lie is behind me and hoping maybe i can turn it around and marry some early 20 year old woman so my kids arent autistic.
or you could be bill whittle. He was talking about how hes 45+ now or whatever and wishes he had kids he looked like he was almost crying.
Owen Wright
The moment I'm able to get the fuck out of the Navy I'm going full NEET lyfe. My school pretty much got me my A+ Certification for free.
How viable is it just to freelance simple IT work through social networking? Like building custom computers and installing home networks and shit?
Henry Robinson
They forgot to mention the part where everyone is so weird and awkward nowaday and they would rather look for ways to fire you than to talk to you.
Also in the video game world. Everyone is so weird and awkward, they refuse to use their mics.
Ethan Foster
>get /fit/ >try to get a gf >cheating whore after cheating whore >7 exs later, say fuck it and go back to vidya games I regret wasting all that time on whores. I still work out though because it feelsgoodman.
William Moore
Maybe should have thought about this before you made men the devil
Oliver Barnes
Not viable at all. I do IT for a large list of medium size businesses and it's hard to meet payroll and make ends meet sometimes.
Connor Edwards
I hate to break it to the cunts in media but I've watched what happens to people that work minimum wage, they don't enjoy life anymore no matter what. I've watched society pander to a new generation that will only leech off of those min wage workers and the middle class. Therefore I refuse to work for or pay money to this new society that no longer wants progress. Why give to a country and government that no longer has our best interest in mind? We don't owe them a damn thing when all they do is pander to niggers and faggots
Asher Wilson
>Be 24 >Still live with parents >Mother ruined my credit before I turned 18 >Put bills in my name when I turned 18 bring collections after me >Couldn't even get a bank account >Couldn't (and still can't) find anything but part time work >Lose my insurance in two years >Can't afford college and was reject for student loans and other Fed aid. >No car
Fuck it all. I want to work full time but I can't find anything.
Joseph Clark
NEET(No Education, Employment, or Training) isn't just about being a game addict. It's basically anyone who doesn't contribute to society. Meaning you can be a NEET and hike around your country.
James Davis
Not really sure if this is bait or not, but I'll have a go. The only thing that has drastically improved is the graphics. Level design and gameplay is shit. There's nothing engaging. It's basically overly focus tested, lowest common denominator trash designed to feed the player dopamine hits.
Michael Nelson
Here's the joke...
This is the main quest.
Owen Rivera
>destroying our body for a few dollars to keep an industry going to me Jews rich
Stay home and watch the markets and industries collapse. Bring back self reliance.
Evan Bennett
get in on a church group or family friends
retirees are the biggest IT market, and they hate dealing with corporate faggots
Owen Howard
>just take a trip to the rockies and go hking man >why don't all you poor NEETs just go take a hiking trip?
Retardation the post.
Camden Reed
As a fellow Nationwider I can confirm it's this easy, helps this company hands shit out for free
Daniel Hill
>typical wagecuck cousin >good job >has a house >start to feel jealous >he gets married >within one year she cheats on him, attempts suicide, and stops working to go out every night
kek
Hudson Cook
Ex-wife did the same shit to me.
Owen Foster
For how long can you keep getting that? Just curious, I'd rather be working desu
Easton Sanders
>using mics
Why would I want to talk to a bunch of random 12 year olds and a rabble of screaming Ahmed's?
Levi Parker
Forza is Microsoft's sim(ish) racing series. I started with Forza Motorsport 3, and the physics, car selection, customization, track selection, etc have all improved massively. It's by no means true to life but it's fairly close, and racing online with a good group of friends is enjoyable.
Nathaniel White
Why not get a job more enjoyable than Target?
Brayden Ross
>playing singleplayer nothing is wrong with this. in fact it's objectively better.
Jayden Sullivan
>problems that the United States is already seeing in areas hit with heavy job losses.
yeah because jobs don't exist until your hired, because there's always job openings. RIGHT? RIGHT?
>nope.
Ryder Harris
Of all the images of wageslave vs NEET I've seen, this is the most accurate one yet.
Samuel James
This happened to me when Quake came out.
I did travel around the world living with women from everquest for a decade after that, but basically my goal has always been to do nothing but play video games.
I like living with my parents and doing nothing. I don't want to work, I never wanted to work.
And before quake. I was a career criminal, I sold drugs, did lots of scores that were often very bad for my victims (like the time I caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage to steal track suits that I ended up selling for just over 20k all told) hit a lot of people with hard metal objects, and maybe some worse stuff too.
Jail didn't phase me, I honestly didn't care much. I used to walk out of jail with lots of money from playing diedee (dunno how it's spelled) with chink gangsters. Prison didn't bother me either, it was way better then jail, so it was even less of a deterrence. More time out of your cell, playstation in your cell, better food, pool tables, foozeball, then even let us play hockey on the rink sometimes, skates and all.
But I haven't so much as jaywalked since I basically got addicted to video games.
I went age 12-26 in and out of juvie and jail and even the pen. But I've had no trouble at all in the following 20 years.
Video games completely rehabilitated me. I don't even CARE about money any more.
I inherited 600k ten years back, and all it does is increase in value, I haven't touched a single dime of it, despite being a person who has done ridiculous and violent things for far less money.
Some of us should simply be executed for the good of society. And since society doesn't have the steel to do that anymore, we have to be contained somehow.
If we want to sit at mom and dad's playing video games, that's a LOT cheaper then incarcerating us.
Camden Gonzalez
Question, what are your expenses? How many big items like cars or homes are you paying off? Do you support people?
Charles James
What's your degree in?
Christopher Bell
>"A-user-kun, you're not hikkikomori are you?"
Easton Gray
The problem isn't games, it's society.
>women are whores >jobs are shit >average man is a dumbfuck, but jobs for dumbfucks are occupied by immigrants >society condemns dudes
Escapism becomes a desirable alternative.
Joshua Anderson
>all these people saying fix the system I'm sorry, who will do this if we're all sitting on our asses and playing games? It's easy to complain, but the issue will never be solved if we just say "fix it"
Alexander Parker
>Bring in millions of illegals to fill manual labor jobs >DON'T WORRY GOY THERE'S STILL SERVICE JOBS >Indians come in and take those too >TOUGH LUCK GOY ;(
Luke Gonzalez
What do you guys do, I dont understand. How to NEET in the US?
Brody Gray
>"how did you get in my house?"
Parker Garcia
You realize that is fuck all in Europe right? That will just about cover rent and food and he is probably a special case with serious brain problems.
Gavin Jones
You arent given the main quest, you create the main quest.
Jordan Brooks
That and jobs for dumbfucks don't buy you a modest apartment/trailer like they used to.
Two cashiers could totally have bought a modest house back in the good old days.
Christopher Foster
The fact that you say that you will kill yourself makes me think that you actually do have 400k in bitcoins. Lots of money without pride in what you have done to earn it usually causes suicide. You need to find something that you love to do even if it does not make you money or you may end up committing suicide.
Daniel Sanders
>it's a government media uses young men as a scapegoat to rationalize their failed economic policies episode
Colton Jones
Government policy is pushing everyone in to higher education, it's expressed at all levels.
The Post 9/11 GI Bill will give you a monthly stipend equal to a sergeant's housing allowance, pay all your college tuition, and give you a small amount of money each semester for books. You get 36 months of benefits so enough for a standard bachelor's degree.
If you go in to some kind of apprenticeship program you get the full stipend for 6 months then it decreases by 20%, then another 20% every six months. It punishes you for learning a trade and making a little money while you learn and is a big incentive to just go to college.
Kevin Turner
>have a trade >enjoy making a decent wage for fun work >going to college two days out of the week to pad my résumé >probably won't quit my job when I get my degree because it's too much fun
Pic related
Brandon Bennett
True, cost of living increased a lot in a few key parts.
Austin Ward
Why would anyone fix the system? Leech from it till it collapses. Germany can't handle to fund the aging society plus now hundred thousands of sandgoogles. They have to raise the tax or it'll break down.
Joshua Allen
>wageslave >I know you didn't get any time for yourself today, but you'll get a few hours on the weekend if your boss doesn't call you into work!
>at 5am the NEET vows to better himself through reading, excercise or even finding a job until he wakes up and realizes it's all too hard
God damn. I was the first one 2 years ago literally working 7 days a week and getting a Tuesday off if I was lucky. Now I'm the second one.
You just can't fucking win.
Jackson Adams
Arbeit macht frei
work sets you free
lul
Logan Morgan
Indefinitely. That's why all the niggers and sandniggers are flocking to Nordic countries.
If you've been unemployed long enough, you'll even get extra shit, not even joking. Last year they paid 150 euros towards my photography hobby.
Jordan Lewis
Friendly reminder that literally everything before guts' branding was a scripted destiny created by a god that exists to give people a reason to suffer.
Brandon Adams
Logic coming from a Leaf? I must be dreaming.
Ayden Green
b-but I'm 24 and I like playing video games all day
Joseph Hill
honestly thats the reason I'm here too, I want to see the end of the world
David Torres
Berserk is what inspired me to give up videogames and to live my own adventure. Havent turned back since. I go out do fun adventurous shit. I just think "what would a hero do" and use that to make my decisions. So no my hero doesn't sit around and play videogames all day. My hero goes to the gym, practices survival, smashes hoes, and prepares for the time he will be needed.
Jack Brooks
>post 9/11 GI bill recipients will also receive $83 per month for supplies and books
lmao
Benjamin Miller
can you post some, would like to see what you archived
Joseph Russell
>wageslave >answering the phone when your boss calls you and you don't want to work
Kayden Morales
Are you me?
Carson Rodriguez
Oy vey! muh (((economy))) how will we make enough shekels for Israel now?!
Thomas Gomez
Nowadays work is pointless
You are either waiting for a race war in which a job is only taking up your time to prepare and enjoy your vidya right now
or
You realized that modern work helps no one and is only prolonging a dying society, thus in turn your wage-slavery is a perpetual cycle in which every day you continue to work guarantees a world in which you will continue to have to work that job
Jack Bell
>be me >"go to college, user! you'll get a good paying job after!" >"but I have no skills outside the humanities" >"pfft, what are you gonna do? military? trade school? hahahahaha" >fall for college meme >get useless 4-year degree >only job I get after college is rat race office job >only got it because my friend vouched for me >after a year, decide to try grad school >burn the fuck out of grad school >live at home, mother nagging me to take any job that comes my way >"but mom, I won't be able to move out with that income and I'll be miserable" >"A JOB IS A JOB, user" >just sit around playing vidya all day >want nothing more for sweet death to come and release me from this sick and twisted torment
Adrian Sanchez
It's true. I'm not a neet, but I've stopped playing video games. They are boring. Do not hold my interest at all anymore. I also don't work hard, and could easily play vidya 6hrs/day.
Joseph Bailey
>whiter areas of sweden Its sad that it's even a thing.
What the fuck.
Lucas Clark
For every "why the fuck did I go to college I'm working at Starbucks fuck" I encounter four "why didn't I go to college I'm forever stuck here."
You might be content with 18/hour, but know that barring rapid inflation or you successfully capitalizing on a trend solely through luck, you will never make more than 24/hr. You will forever be lower middle class while idiots with degrees in psychology and gender studies are hired as your managers and as your HR department. Unfortunately, as a lowly "non college grad" you will always be the first to go as these people won't care about you or how well you do your job.
Tradesmen are largely safe, but not every body can be a tradesman.
If you're not a dummy or an inhumanly lucky genius, go to college if you want to do something with your life.
Wyatt Stewart
Rapelay was pretty good.
Christian Miller
Why don't you just greentext the highlights instead of posting the entire thing, newfag?
Hudson Flores
I don't know if it's different by country, but there are numerous jobs in Canada that values a associate degree/advanced diploma. Electrical technicians, X-ray technicians, dental hygienist and certain IT careers are some I think of at the top of my head that usually require an AD.
Adrian Long
You forgot studying in the evenings and at the weekends for the wage slave and drug dependency and begging for drugs for the NEET.
Wyatt Hill
>Where im at, all the mexicans in the union are nepotistic.
That's everywhere. Spics are just as bad as kikes in that regard. They all have to go back.
Austin Long
>Not retarded enough to qualify for Autismbux >Not motivated enough to leverage what mental faculties I have towards finding a meaningful career
I've been diagnosed with depression and anxiety, but for some reason I still have the capacity to take classes (in a stupid major, anthropology) and occasionally work part-time jobs (which I usually quit within a year). Probably stems from a desire to make my old man not completely disappointed in me. Wasted effort, I'd imagine.
Part of me wants to continue putting in a bare minimum effort to not be completely useless to society.
Part of me wants to just give it all up and live as a recluse for the rest of my life.
I'm 25 and have been struggling with this ever since I graduated from high school. Haven't once mustered up the willpower to make a decision. It all feels so pointless in the end.
Justin Hernandez
I only want a job right now because I've been a neet for over a year and I'm bored out of my mind, even working seems more fun.
Asher Edwards
NEET here, I spend a few days a week finding shit at thrift store and selling it on ebay, rest of the time is used browsing Cred Forums, trying to find work, and feeling depressed that I'm going nowhere in life.
The weeks have gone by like days and now its the end of September, and my last job ended in May 2015. Shits depressing as fuck.
Joseph Gutierrez
Yes.
Bentley Moore
Sorry man.
Logan Walker
>tfw playing video games and watching movies while chstting with friends on fb >but still depressed
Daniel Williams
Woops. I meant this one. You can trust me goyim.
Parker Bailey
I think the real lesson to be learned from this thread is that we need to gas the neets that think themselves superior to shiftless Googles solely based on the fact they're white.
Nah, you're both trash and you will be on the wrong side of the firing squad on the day of the rope. Whiteness is a mode of being, not something you're merely born with.
Wyatt Scott
Not all colleges are SJW, either. I went to a _IT (not MIT) and within 5 years of graduating I was making about $100k/yr. I burned out after 9 years and didn't work for over 2 years. When I did go back looking for work I easily lined up a dozen interviews for $100k+/yr jobs without even trying that hard. $100k isn't crazy good or anything, but try that without a degree (or LOTS of experience)
Aaron Kelly
>Blames videos games when their parents should've whooped their ass and made them do something.
Robert Clark
This is some zen shit right here
Dylan Murphy
> yfw the future will be all SJW women working 70 hours weeks because "I'm a strong working woman!", paying taxes to the welfare state so NEETS can buy the latest virtual reality games and sex robots.
there's nothing to fear brothers.
Josiah Collins
Dabbin' pepe is by far the most smug pepe
Alexander Turner
You could read a book or something
Dominic Clark
>Some of us should simply be executed for the good of society. And since society doesn't have the steel to do that anymore, we have to be contained somehow. >If we want to sit at mom and dad's playing video games, that's a LOT cheaper then incarcerating us.
I think there is a lot of truth to these statements. Society has an excess of young men and has nothing to offer them. We have been failed by the institutions that surround us. These young men have been marginalized and forgotten about. I don't know what the solution to this it but you can;t ignore that the problem is there
Ayden Rogers
>We do not pay our rent,
With your dignity, you do.
Lucas King
Film studies
Related to above, I had a job at a movie theater that I really enjoyed before going back to college (Pic actually related). I'm applying to a bunch of places in Chi-raq, so hopefully having a degree + a year and a half of experience will boost my chances. I'd love to write about or review movies, but there's an absolute shitload of people online who are better at it than me and still don't have jobs in the field. Doing freelance writing is hard too if you can't get a steady gig, there are ten million Pajeets you're competing with who can write business articles for a penny a word. I guess the most depressing thing is that I'm on the other side of my twenties and still looking for these penny-ante jobs, but that's really just because I took four years off before I got my head screwed on straight and finished up my degree. I might be able to turn it around.
Christian Diaz
you can't join the military without several certifications you stupid idiot
Connor King
>Whiteness is a mode of being, not something you're merely born with.
Shut the fuck up kike
Robert Taylor
>tfw saved up $9000 >Enough to pay bills for over a year >Decided to quit my job for legion so I could enjoy it full time with my old friends >Happiest time of my life being a NEET, haven't had this much free time since school summer
Eli Scott
>work full time in shit job and still can't afford to live unless split bills with 3 other guys with two sharing a room and one getting the couch
Or
>work part time and live in parents house playing video games and paying a quarter of what you would to help with the bills
James Brooks
I put the posts in manually, just hit the comment ceiling.
sorry to use Cred Forums for ranting/venting but I think people on here are the only ones who can even have a semblance of a shared experience.
Oh I can definitely be valuable to society, but why would I want to be browbeaten by minorities while I contribute?
90% of my energy is spent on helping people in the alt-right now. If Trump loses then I hope some shit pops off, because expending any more energy on this society is beyond my means.
Leo Kelly
>$100k isn't crazy good or anything, but try that without a degree
When most people in this country barely make half that, it's crazy good. Yes, you're nothing compared to surgeons making 400k per annum, but you're either retarded or have tunnel vision if you think 100k isn't crazy good in the grand scheme. Still a slave to the system, but you're cozier than most
Matthew Thomas
Word >Work lots >Get burnt out of work >Quit >Sit around and play vidya all day >Cant progress in life and get bored >Get a job >Repeat the cycle At this point I am convinced I need a job I actually enjoy, that has to be the secret.
Aaron Bailey
>film studies Why, just why? What did you think your job would be when you graduated?
Kevin Nguyen
That's what happens when you raise your kids without religion. Why shouldn't they just live their lives in pursuit of pleasure?
Brayden Morgan
The transmission in the car m8
Christopher Cook
I should add that I've never had more than 25k gold in wow but now I'm up to two million. I can always sell gold for more money kek
Fuck off mart sharter. Googles and Skypes can't be white either use common sense.
Just because you're a pasty faggot doesn't give you the right to call yourself white. Leave that to the men responsible for building society.
James Sanders
Is there internet on the hiking? I want to watch shit on Netflix so I won't get bored and have something to do. Walking is painful
Justin Rodriguez
Surprised you can still do that with tokens being a thing
Mason Bell
Yes only Henry Ford and Nikola Tesla were whites. Everyone else is just a nigger.
Gas yourself.
Josiah Williams
>SJW women working 70 hours weeks that's actually a pretty good solution. since they want to be more represented in the work field let them do all the work and support NEETs via taxes, we just have to sell it as a PC achievement
Anthony Hughes
I work 5 days a week as a truck driver
When I have enough money invested I'll work 4 days a week and consider that "semi-retired"
IMO 4 on 3 off is the best combo of being productive and a NEET
A 3 day weekend allows you to have 2 intense workouts, cycle a lot and make progress on vidya
Eli Hall
I'm 23 and It just feels empty waking up and doing the same damn thing everytime, but then again I remember how its like being a wagecuck that makes shit money, and I got to say that NEET life beats that anyday
Aaron Lewis
> retarded or have tunnel vision
Maybe a little of both. I was in business consulting, but on the tech side of things. The people I reported to and worked with were on the business side, and they made so much money it warped my view of it. One of them has their name on a plaque in the crown club room of one of the world's biggest airports because at one point they had the most miles ever flown on Delta. Another traded in his 7-series for the new model every year. Another, the richest, built a SECOND walk-in shoe closet (only for shoes) for his wife because the first one was full. Meanwhile, I drove a Scion and lived in a fairly normal 2 bedroom apartment.
Carter Hill
Religion is full retard.
Aiden Sullivan
will you give me free AK to explore with? there's dogmen and satanists. I've seen the youtubes. and an escape rope.
Logan Kelly
Oddly enough video games fucking suck now.
>FPS garbage >anime weaboo shit >sports franchises that are 99% the same year after year after year
Give me 2D Marios/Zeldas, fuck any SNES or NES game any day.
Kayden Bailey
Trade master race reporting in.
>Get to work with men, not a bitch in sight >Satisfaction of working with your hands >Unionized so 8 hour days with double time if you go over >Not married, no kids, 6 hours of the day to do whatvever the fuck i like when i get home
Caleb Flores
holy fuck, excuse me while i kill myself.
Chase Mitchell
I can identify with this even though I don't really play video games anymore. I'm 27 and I've spent my 20s doing things other than working. I've had a nice happy life, well most of the time. When I was younger I thought it would be pointless to work given as the article says, little reward. Everyone loves to talk about what you deserve as a low skilled worker but nobody thinks of the greater repercussions for society. I thought about it, I could scrub toilets and have some asshole with better credit than me harp on me to work faster or I could live off social security. I picked the latter.
I'm about to become a first time homeowner. I am fixing my credit. I'm going to get married. I will reenter the work force. If it wasn't for my dad giving me this house it would be a much harder battle than it is but I was still prepared to fight it. I can see how others would just give up even though I now know it's not the right thing to do if you want a happy future. If things continue like this we're never going to advance beyond our current state. You can't blame the people who don't want to be slaves for that.
Asher Martin
I'm hoping I can get in on that, I'm a mechanical engineering major but I strongly suspect I'm too much of a sperglord to fit in at GE or wherever. Also, oddly enough, my college seems to have a lot of fluffy shit bound to engineering.
Xavier Perry
I did just that, you idiot.
Landon Sanders
it's already happening. Many professional women today will find themselves unable to get married because they spent their youth, the time when they were most attractive, trying to advance in their careers.
Julian Smith
That is so little time for yourself.
As a NEET, I believe you should have 4 days to yourself and the other 3 can be spent on working.
It is a shame that we only have one life yet have so little say in what we want to do with it. It doesn't feel right knowing that the only way for the average person to get by is slaving away his his only life to make the pockets of someone else fatter. I just want to improve and learn about the world and explore.
Ian Green
Platinum Games dude. Everything they make sells like shit but I've been playing the fuck out of Metal Gear Rising lately and it's been a blast, and I'm definitely picking up Vanquish next. Both have retarded plots but if you want a sword to actually feel like a sword or want to blast around in high-speed power armor there you go.
Andrew Cox
10/10 adaptation.
Aiden Myers
witcher 3 came out just last year and it's probably the best game ever made.
David Thomas
Don't worry user, once you realize truly that your life is meaningless, you'll come around. Although, I don't expect for it to happen soon, because you seem very good at mental gymnastics. Once you're 40 or so, have no marketable skills, and all of your friends have large and loving families, you'll see what I mean. I'm not telling you this because I'm triggered, but because my uncle did almost the same thing and now he's a barely functioning alcoholic who begs my father to come to all of our family gatherings because he's so depressed. I'm trying to help you user.
Samuel Gonzalez
This isn't because of video games, this is because good jobs are gone. Not everyone wants to, or can, get a degree in STEM or nursing, and even those jobs aren't a sure bet you'll make a decent amount of money. This isn't even taking into account that those degrees will put you tens of thousands of dollars into debt that you can't declare bankruptcy on.
50 years ago in the midwest you could get a factory job that payed more than what an engineer makes today. You could buy a house, a nice car and raise a family on what you were paid. If you were so inclined you could go and get a degree for pennies, even at top private schools.
ofc video games are more appealing than a dead end job where you get paid minimum wage.
Henry Wright
what.
You don't even need a fucking driver's license to join the military, you god damn retard.
As long as you graduated high school, you're golden.