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Born to be a NEET
Anyone else feel like they were pretty much born to live the NEET life? Even as a child, I had zero idea of what I wanted to do later in life. Not even anything fantastical like becoming an astronaut or super hero. People would ask me what kind of job I would want to do later for school assignements and stuff. When I said "I don't know", they would say "but you HAVE to pick something", so I would make up excuse-answers. It's almost funny, because growing up on a farm, I was groomed to work from an early age. Everyday I would make sure pigs were fed and shovel their crap and do other tasks. I still remember the almost acidic stench of the pig sty that was steaming in the cold winter air with pig urine and pig shit and the occasional dead piglet along with the claustrophobic squealing of the pigs stuck in their horrific little cages grinding on the pipes, occasionally killing their own piglets either by accident or by rage from being stuck all day long in the same spot. Every day around their feeding time when they would hear the quietest-human related noise they would start squealing and groaning like mad for their food. It was hellish. I hated every second of this daily task and I would run back to the shower once we were done, hoping I could get rid of this horrific stench, although I never seemed to be quite able to no matter how much I scrubbed. Growing up in rural area that farm smell got you labelled and boxed in with the other farm kids quickly, along with the quirks that come with being raised in an isolated place with no neighbour kids around. In the winter on the weekends we would be cutting down trees in the forest. A kind of work that is less horrific and disgusting but still quite tedious and loathsome. Once I was old enough to move out, I got the hell out of there. I just didn't wanna smell like pig shit anymore. I tried other types of employment - office work, menial labour that didn't involve pig stys, service jobs. Honestly nothing clicked and the whole concept of having to sacrifice 10 hours of your day waging and then paying half your income to the state for existing is horrific to me. I don't have any interests that are marketable and the thought of having to monetize my hobbies is loathsome to me anyways. I don't like dealing with people, I suck at mostly everything, I am okay at grasping some difficult concepts but I am lost when it comes to stuff that is beyond beginner level. I am a farmers son after all, genetically I was built to work like a mule and not much else. And the thing is, most people I talked to don't really have an answer for this? They just say "well yeah, it sucks but deal with it. Life is suffering, we all just suck it down. Be a man." Everybody just accepts this miserable state and loathsome existance of wageslaving. If you're against it, well, you're just lazy! They're like the piggies in their cages, not willing to escape as long as they have their food, only occasionally squealing and groaning and raging. I'm sorry, but a life of quiet suffering and sucking it down is not something I look forward to. So I'm a NEET who lives off of disability now. Honestly it's pretty comfy. And, I am fortunate enough to live in one of the few countries during a rare period in history where I can just live like this. So I guess this was my fate after all.10
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