Should I Get A Job Or Stay Neet?

NEET means "Not in Employment Education or Training".

I have a job offer that pays minimum wage at a call center. Should I start working or rely on my mental health related benefits. My mental problems while not very severe do impact my ability to form relationships and understand other people's emotions.

Lately I've been posting on 4chan and I came across this meme image. It's giving me second thoughts as to whether I should get a job or not. Whilst reading this image, I started agreeing with a lot of it.

Is working this bad? I enjoy my free time. while as a NEET, I'm relying on other people's support and feel guilty about it, at least I'm not working to enrich a dickhead boss.

Do I have any other options? Is living as a hunter-gatherer a viable option to escape the rat race?

 

poverty is a bitch, but if you've got an alternate source of income, or way of living you can be happy without,
you don't owe it to anyone to keep up conventional appearances. only to avoid causing harm.

 

should is what you do in the little room with the mirrors. there's no same should or should not for any two persons. so there's no right option in the poll.

 

NEET requires trust fund or rich parents (or large inheritance)

 

Get a job, but not at a call center. Go get a job a a pizza place.

 

lol two votes..

 

the only one who can ever know what is the best way of life for themselves, is themselves.
what any of the rest of us might have to think about it, is bullshit.
without an option that says so, that poll is bullshit.

i would say don't beat your head against walls, to get things you don't want anyway, to impress people you don't give a shit about impressing.

people go through the motions of conventional beliefs, those which are familiar to those around them, to get paid and get laid.
but can that take the place of real gratifications that come only from creating and exploring?

there is no such thing as doing nothing, but booze and television are less then nothing.

nor is it logically any less respectable to work for your own imagination, then for someone else's symbolic value.
but there is some degree of luck involved in finding an honest way of doing so.

bear neccessities is one way. but depending on what it is your gift to create, you may still need some tools, as well as abilities, to do so.

 

Get a job.. It'll keep you out of trouble..

 

No job doesn't equal freedom- you get sick of being broke very quickly, particularly if you have friends who have taken different options and have steady wages. You have to be very easily satisfied with whateve is in your immediate environment- you probably aren't going to get much traveling done, or see much of the world. You have a lot more free time but fewer options in terms of what to do with it.

A job gives you money which gives you mobility and independence and options thousands of doors to you to allow you to maximize your free time, the trade off is that you have less free time to use for this.

So it's not really an either/or, its a case of striking a balance.

 

You should strive to live a life of dignity.

 

NEET can work if you're going for the style of starting your own business.

 

Update: They said they'd call back last Friday but they never did. I do have another interview lined up this Friday though. If that falls through I'm officially NEET again.

Maybe I'll look into getting a job at a pizza place, that sounds like it could be fun.

 

This is pretty much the same expression the HR person makes when I hand them my cv and my only job was a mcjob and my education is the equivalent of an associates. I'm not even qualified to work at a call centre. That's allright being NEET is not so bad and may be even be better in the long run.



But seriously how does one get work experience without having any? Is starting my own "company" a good way to put something on my cv?

 

To be truthful, there isn't a clear-cut answer.
On one hand, a shit job might lead to a good job, or a brilliant business and life/career.

On the other hand, a shit and demeaning job may make someone feel very angry. It could psychologically damage them for life. Or cause them to make some bad or very heavy decisions. Or it could lead them absolutely nowhere at all, and indeed prevent them from getting a decent job.

We'd need more facts to give a worthwhile answer.

JK Rowling is a good example of a "NEET". Likewise George Soros(ok not a good one, just an example). Probably Bill Gates and many others.

Obviously there are people who transfer from wage slavery to what you would consider a meaningful existence. But how many have had their soul destroyed by a McJob? Dunno.

PS working in a call centre, you prob have little chance for any time of career progression or meaningful interaction.
I'd say bin that shit for something else.

 

If you don't want to do an ubershit job, then write a book, train up for a business or something. Work all day in THAT, don't just watch daytime tv.
Doing nothing must be as tortuous as sweeping shit in the park. Maybe more so, who knows?

 

It almost pays to do nothing, be a bum and leech of the system these days.

I fucking spent $500 on ER visits in two days over the past weekend. I work and have health insurance, but what has that gotten me? Sometimes leeching off the system seems more profitable than working. Why work when you can get Obama to have the taxpayers pay your way?

Might as well quit your job/stay unemployed, vote Democrat, and just suck off the tit of the system like so many do in this country.

Is Tom155 really neodude??

 

I don't think so, no...

 

The obvious answer depends on what you want in life and your perspective I guess. If you feel good leeching off society and your fellow people you could answer it with there's no good reason indeed to not avoid work. This is why there are people who make a living out of checking people on welfare (which is good, as there are always people who abuse anything to the max at the expense of others who really need it).
I avoid work as well, definitely where it comes to callcenter work (I tried though ), but just too much work and work I don't feel good about. As long as I can get by on a 2 day workweek I will. I'm aware not everyone is lucky enough to do this... Just explaining I'm not a fanatic worker either (except when I actually work, I like to do my job well) but found out what 'works' for me

 

You don't think that the idea young, talented people actually choose unemployment might be a bit of a conspiracy theory from the Far Right who control most of the media anyway.

Sure some 3rd world immigrant, living 30 to a house, thriving in a black economy might be doing a welfare scam.
Likewise, single mothers etc working the system while doing things on the side

But seriously, young and talented people actually choosing to live on literally fuck all with welfare? I think thats a pure fantasy concocted by Fox News/Britain's Daily Mail etc.

Unemployment is part of the current economic system. Its a device to squeeze wages down. Global corporativism at its most dsyfunctional. I seriously wonder where Western society is heading while our governments deliberately keep talented people unemployed and then have the neck to demonise them. This is how societies collapse.

The Establishment wants to set working class vs working class. And lower middle vs lower middle. Sadly their scummy plan works on some people.

 

Yes this is my plan as it stands. Even if it doesn't work is it still a good idea to put it on my cv as an experience?

What if I say on my cv that I was an "employee" at a business I started. This is not really dishonest because of course when someone is self-employed, they are still also an employee.

Who is neodude?