Does it make sense of the rise of NEETs?

[IHaveRespawned]

NEET = Not in Education, Employment, or Training

I feel completely burnt out in terms of exploring careers and jobs, which speaks volumes because I was always career-oriented since I was a young child. Since age 7, I was obsessed with jobs. I used to dawn a play police vest and direct traffic in the neighborhood. Then I was the "mailman". As I grew older, starting in high school, I was a fire explorer. I had my state EMS first responder certification by age 17. I was doing many clinical ride-alongs during high school. I was optimistic about careers from a young age.

Fast forwarding today, I am 30, and I have held 25 jobs and have never been able to maintain job security. I am collecting disability checks now to survive. Imagine the cycle of climbing a ladder to be pushed off in anguish each time. This cycle becomes beyond tiresome and has left me bitter. In addition, any and all savings or money I collect during my short tenure dries up each time, and I essentially begin from scratch again. There is no progression forward.

Come to find out, even without my personal issues and struggles, my generation as a whole is struggling to gain their footing in life. We are being shoved into this predatory "own nothing, be 'happy'" movement. Homeownership is becoming less and less obtainable. Rent is more and more becoming the only option, and even that is sucking people dry. Everyday essentials like groceries and transportation has become increasingly burdensome. There is red tape and process everywhere, making everything an unnecessary chore. To put a final nail in the coffin, we are hearing automation is becoming a major existential threat to our jobs, livelihoods, and career growth. Graduates are leaving college struggling to find work. Those who have jobs are finding themselves living paycheck to paycheck and having to work multiple jobs. You are damned if you do, damned if you don't.

I can see the phenomenon of NEETs on the rise.

Yes

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[Cormac995]

Back in the day you could work on an assembly line and make enough to buy a house, have a family and live a decent life. You used to be able to climb the ladder and have your skill and initiative rewarded but that world is dead and gone. The effort and worth you put into you labor is tied to the fruits of it. If I'm never going to get married and have a family why would I give a single fuck about being employed when I could just tap out and live like I'm already retired? Skip the rat race I'm not playing a rigged game just so I can lose. If you can't win an unfair game then don't play it.

[Sonorous]

Yes. Once jobs, the government, or anyone else in financial power actually stop scamming people out of money, we will see a reduction in people wanting to avoid that path. We're incentive driven creatures. Want a man to work, give the man good incentive. It's not hard but greed gets in the way so it's no wonder that things are the way they are.

[msc545]

If he could snap out of it he would since he isn't enjoying it one bit. I guarantee that. The truth is that he cannot snap out of it. Some people cannot work and I realize that the rest of the population or at least some portion of it has trouble accepting that fact. I see people all the time that have these difficult days. I can be helpful to them in some cases.

[IHaveRespawned]

Thank you for your response man. I want to say, I am very talented and multifaceted in many areas. My hard skills have been described as "off the charts". Sadly, navigating a workforce with mental illness, Autistic Spectrum, coworkers wanting to be in control throwing me under the bus, and navigating workplace politics and stupid nonsense has left me in a state of defeat. There comes to a point where I have to face reality and protect my Medicare and just stop trying to advance in a career. It sucks but I feel my hands are tied.

[msc545]

I don't know if your hands are tied or not but for the time being if you say they are then they are. That may change and it may not. One of the hardest and most unfair of things about being mentally ill is that others do not recognize mental illness for what it is unless they happen to wind up having it themselves. Instead, they become abusive toward people with mental illness and castigate them with terms like lazy sluggish, indolent. If you were physically ill nobody would do that.

[Curmudgeon]

Sadly, it DOES make sense. But that only plays into the hands of the people with horrid agendas. They WANT us to be less self-sufficient, less capable, less able to stand up for ourselves. DON'T fall into the NEET trap. Don't simp either, and tax shelter all the earned money you can, but DON'T fall into the NEET trap.

[Dongie]

You know that movie, I believe it was Moonstruck? 🖐💥 snap out of it!!