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8958565 No.8958565 [Reply] [Original]

What do you usually do during your waking hours?

Do you enjoy what you're doing?

>> No.8958573

Work. No.

>> No.8958581
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>>8958573
Thats not NEET.

I play video games during the day and sleep at night. i am desperately trying to reverse my sleep schedule so i see my family less.

>> No.8958593

>>8958581
>Thats not NEET.
You're right. That's truNEET.

>> No.8958591

>>8958581
>Thats not NEET.
Maybe he doesn't mean employment?

I "work", but to me that's cleaning up a bit and fapping.

>> No.8958601

>>8958573
That.

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>>8958573
>>8958601
>>8958593

>> No.8958763

I basically do whatever I want. Of course I enjoy it.

>> No.8958771

>>8958763
you're one of the lucky ones.

how many /jp/ers do you think are depressed and how many are happy being NEETs?

>> No.8958775

Browse the internet.
Not really.

>> No.8958780

depressed /jp/er here, feels bad man.

>> No.8958783

>>8958771
A lot more seem depressed than there should be. A few years ago I feel this was the other way around.

>> No.8958792

>>8958783
They are faggots from TC.
I hope they go back there.
http://tohno-chan.com/so/res/9508.html

>> No.8958790

>>8958783
I guess it just comes with time, when I 'started' being NEET I was much happier.

>> No.8958809

>>8958792
>Ever get the feeling that you're getting too old for this? I turned 22 today

...wow.

>> No.8958814

>>8958792
I forgot about that site. Thanks.

>> No.8958815

>>8958790
I dunno. I've been at it ever since I dropped out of highschool at 16 and I'm 22 now. If anything, I've become happier over the years.

>> No.8958825

I play video games, watch anime, learn japanese, play guitar, and sometimes go out to skate(board) with my friends..

Personally I think my hobbies are much to stereotypical, but it's ok.

>> No.8958826

I try to sustain my own lifestyle as much as I can while not doing things that I wouldn't enjoy, like working at a McDonalds or Walmart or as a Trucker for example.

So, my waking hours are spent doing what I want. I play multi player games with the same close online friends that I've had since I was about 13. I usually sell or trade my currency (from mmo's), sell for real $ or trade for wow gold which I then sell for real money anyway. This keeps my from having to ask my parents for money to buy the things I want. It's as good as having a real job, but without the hassle of one.

I also like to make my own furniture, my newly finished desk, book shelves, my chair, my "dining table" and currently thinking up a new bed, though I'll only be making the frame, I'll still buy the mattress itself.

I also spend a lot of time mixing up new drinks. For example, right now I've mixed Bombay Sapphire with Mt. Dew and Pomegranate tea. DELICIOUS. Oh, and don't think I actually buy good alcohol very often, I only buy the cheap wines that are about 3.99 to 7.99 at the local Fresh & Easy. My dad is the one who sometimes gets me more expensive alcohol.

I also spend my time building new computers and fixing up old ones that i buy on Craigslist or at garage sales.

>> No.8958842

>>8958783
At first being a NEET was just great, all that free time and I could do whatever I felt like all day. After a year and a half or so it started to get depressing, and I just starting sleeping 16+ hours a day. Then after two years of that I felt much better, and now I'm back to having fun all day again.
Hell, it used to be that I was awake for maybe 5 hours a day at most. Now I'm awake for at least 18 hours at a time and feel like there just aren't enough hours in the day to do everything I want to do, even when I'm constantly multitasking and doing several things at once. I'm having more fun with life than I've had in years.

>> No.8958839

I grind on my internet games and get into internet arguments all the time.
Yes I enjoy it.

>> No.8958848

>>8958842
Why do you think this is?

>> No.8958851

>>8958565
Internet.
Yes, I dont think I can live a day without the internet.
I rather die than lose the internet.
I dont know how people can get depressed with the invention of internet and I always wonder how the old people without internet can actually live.

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I laid in bed for 6 months until I ran out of money.

I cashier at walmart. Been at it for about a year, and I barely make enough money to pay rent and other novelties like food.

I like going outside far away from people and feeding birds.

I am not a neet and I cannot take it easy. I'm hungry.

>> No.8958862

I browse /jp/, /a/ and /sci/, read VNs and watch anime and movies.
>>8958825
I'd love to learn playing guitar, but don't know where to start and I'm to NEET to google it.

>> No.8958872

>>8958852

Just a few suggestions, dried rice, dried beans, steel cut oats, potatoes, and roasted sunflower kernels, are all dirt fucking cheap considering how much calories/nutrients they have.

You can feed about 20 people until they're completely full with about 2-3 dollars worth of dried beans.

Buy these things and learn to cook, instead of just buying premade shit, if that's what you're doing.

>> No.8958898

>>8958848
No clue. I think somewhere along the line I realized that I'm going to end up rotting in a grave no matter what I do with my life, and that made me depressed and nihilistic towards life for a couple of years. Then I gradually realized that precisely because there's no real point to living, I should just have as much fun with it while I can.
After that I started finding things I wanted to do, which it turned out there were a lot of things there. Books, manga and VNs I've wanted to read, anime I want to watch, games I want to play, languages I want to learn, music I want to listen to, image boards that I want to browse - there's so much of it that even if I do 3 of those things at the same time for several hours every day, I never run out of things to do. Even right now, I'm lurking this and 14 other threads while I have the new episode of Lupin paused, a .pdf of Notes from the Underground and the VN Sayonara wo Oshiete open in the background, with /jp/ radio playing at low volume.
Well, it's either due to that or the ritalin.

>> No.8958900

>>8958842
I think it's like that for most of us NEETs, you become one, but you really aren't one because somewhere still there are "lifelines" where you can still go back to being normal. After you continue the lifestyle long enough that it isn't just a phase for you and it's actually real, it sinks in and when you look for the lifelines, they're not there anymore because you destroyed them in the passage of time as you got to where you are now, you go through some rough depression periods where you stop enjoying your /jp/ hobbies and really everything else as well, you sleep more, perhaps you begin to drink a lot more or you start ( if you weren't drinking before), but if you can get over that and truly learn the meaning of "taking it easy" you will begin a new life and enjoy everything so much more. Although, for me it has reduced my interest or, at least my time for /jp/ hobbies like VNs I get to do a lot more things that I don't believe I would've enjoyed before.

tldr: I feel free (to truly take it easy)

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8958903

/jp/, I humbly seek your wisdom.

Am I a NEET if I am not employed, but work-out and self-study every day? I work-out to maintain good health so I can see advent of the singularity with my own eyes instead of just reading about it in sci-fi books. And I am self-studying Japanese so nothing stands between me and all those delicious porn games.
Tell me, /jp/, who am I?

>> No.8958912

>>8958903
Obviously...


NEET = Not in education employment or training.

>> No.8958926
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8958926

I got a job working in high-rise security for 5 days a week, all overnights. I still feel like a NEET. After 2 hours of clerical/other work, like organizing my spreadsheets, checking to see if anybody's still using common facilities, calling the police to hand out parking tickets, I spend the rest of my time writing reports and reading Fate/Zero. I see like... 5 people during my entire shift of either 8 or 12 hours.

Last month I had to do over 30 overtime hours because somebody quit. Most people would be reluctant to do it, but I personally do not mind. I spend between 4-10 hours reading anyway, so the only difference between work and home is no internet.

Plus, it's more money to go to figs anyway. I hadn't gone on /jp/ at all since last month (because of the overtime hours), but I just saw the Griffon Yuyuko on Amiami... that might be the very first Griffon I buy.

Pic related, what I look like on the job, without the stab-resistant vest.

>> No.8958946

>>8958912
So as long as I don't work and don't seek employment through training or studying and just do things for fun, I am a NEET?
Awesome.

>> No.8958961

>>8958903
yeah you're NEET , I'm NEET and technically still "work", though I don't get payed for it and it isn't an official job title that I can put on job applications. Who the fuck doesn't self-study on /jp/? and no, I don't mean Japanese, I mean in general. Pretty sure there are almost none. Just about everyone is interested or fascinated by something that they self-study more about it, like the guy with the guitar that posted earlier, or me with programming languages, you with Japanese (and many more).

>>8958926
its great that you enjoy it and can take it easy
still not NEET, though. No offense.

>> No.8958972

>>8958946
Why is that "awesome"?

>> No.8958989
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8958989

I play video games, read novels/vn's/manga, watch anime/movies/porn, snuggle with Kanako, surf the net, masturbate and talk to my few friends on msn or email.

After nine years, it's still great.

>> No.8958995

>>8958972
It is good to know what social group I am belonging to, that kind of "awesome." I am not really NEET PRIDE WORLDWIDE type.

>> No.8958996

>>8958972
Did you forget already? NEET is a status symbol.

>> No.8959036

>>8958972
Most people strive to be financial independence before their retirement age but they usually fail and have mountain of debts causing their midlife crisis. They become slave to their work.
The NEET lifestyle beat the system without working and is enjoying their life by doing whatever they want.

>> No.8959160

>>8958898
Do you ever have periods of time where you just don't want to do anything?

>> No.8959181

I do whatever I feel like doing at the time. This consists of playing games, watching anime, browsing boards to gain knowledge and watching people play games on youtube.

I love it. Having an excess of free time is utterly amazing.

>> No.8959212

>>8958900
You pretty much hit the nail on the head there for me, I think. Your post sums it up really well.

>>8959160
Sure, every now and then. Usually I can just sleep it off when that happens though, and wake up perfectly refreshed and full of energy after maybe 2-3 days of laying in bed staring at the ceiling.

>> No.8959267

>>8958898
>Notes from the Underground.

On a scale of 1-10, how well do you identify with the Underground man?

>> No.8959398

>>8959267
Maybe an 8 or a 9? I can identify really well with things like where he says he finds refuge or escapism in "the good and the beautiful" in the form of dreams and the like, and how he can find enjoyment even in things like toothache in such entertaining ways. On the other hand I can only slightly relate when he calls himself a horrible and spiteful man, but even then I can relate perfectly when he talks about things like not consulting doctors out of spite, even if and when he knows better.
I haven't finished reading it yet, but that whole story about his little adventure to make himself feel equal to the officer for whom everyone always steps aside was just great and seemed like exactly the sort of thing I might be likely to do in his situation. Even his self-deprecating jokes I can identify with, in a weird sort of way. I've only just started Part 2 and will need to re-read the whole thing again when I'm done to make it all stick in my head, but it's really a great read so far and I only regret not reading it a lot sooner.

>> No.8959448

play games, read internet, download and watch movies or television series, listen to music.

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