/n/ - NEET

>>12855
Honestly, I just want to be a NEET again. Fuck, I regret starting school so much.

>>12856

Make that 2…

I started University again and miss the old days. Fuck, I hated living as a NEET and now I want it back so bad. I had no social life and was depressed all day numbing myself with all sorts of substances but now work starts piling up again. I have responsibilities live with room-mates so I have to make compromises. The positive overweights I guess, but I am not happy. I just want to sit on my couch tonight drinking until I fall asleep into those dark scary dreams again. Which are so intimidating yet familiar and like a home. Just for a few hours like old times.

Every dream is like looking into a mirror. They are lucid and so real. They are exiting and wishful thoughts. A life with no boundaries, no body no rules. Like looking into a mirror and no man to interfere. Those thoughts are the last thing humanity can't touch yet. My very core and understanding friends.

>>12855
Listen to music on your way to class, sit in the row closest to the professor but stay near a wall or something you can lean on, and go to the computer commons during your break. Learn to eat your lunch in <3mins so you don't have to starve yourself

I am having feelings similar to this as well. I just graduated highschool and just started college and everyone expects so much out of me as I have always been a good student. I don't want to let everyone (myself included) down but sometimes I wish I could just take the easy route and drop out of everything and stay in my room all day. I would probably end up regretting this decision as I know me or my family wouldn't be proud of it, so I guess I will just keep trailing on.

The only thing I regret about not dealing with the bullshit that is jobs and school now is a mountain of debt from when I was under my parents' wing and had to school, and more importantly the fact that LIFE COSTS MONEY.

I'm sick of debt collectors calling demanding sums I don't have. I'm sick of attempting to sell things that I don't want to sell just to make rent. I've had jobs and they all were terrible and forced me to play nicely with customers who were doing their best to be a thorn in the company's side. I'm not competitive, I can't sell for shit, and I generally dislike being around people. I don't know what I'd be good for, and I'd love to be able to stay home and write stories, learn to art, and learn to music. But that stuff isn't valuable, or something.

I don't know what to do anymore.

In truth none of us want to work and study, we want to stay at home.

I started to consider do I really need an education? If I were living alone as a single man, why should I take the higher route of College when we could just live by minimum standards? It sounds pathetic but it's what we're accustomed to.

Unlike you, I ended up going to campus for classes only to skip them due to anxiety and laziness. I'm on Academic probation for 9 more months and considering living the NEET life

>>12855
How far along in your degree are you, OP?

I'm planning to go to college to hopefully get some peace and quiet. My family never shuts up, every day is filled with their complaining and arguing and I'm sick of it. I just want to live alone in quiet.

>>12892
This is my feel as well. Unfortunately, since I still can't pay any of it back, it'll just accrue interest until it's just as big as everyone else's.

>>12895
>>12894
You could go for vocational education which would specialize you in some practical field. Though it wouldn't earn you a diploma.

>>12894
College is too expensive if all you want is quiet. Have you tried getting an apprenticeship so you can start living by yourself ?

just go, you can chill in the back of the class and maybe even have a laptop open. I met someone who was pretty much like you and afterward they said they were glad to have been in that class.

Oh and of course, with the non-college options, I really don't know. I dont even know what i want to do with myself. I too just want to live a quiet life so I'm gaining skillsets for self-driven jobs.

Do that I guess and minimize the college until it actually has helped you enough to be able to live and not be in too much debt i guess

>>12891
I feel you, anon. What I didn't mention is that the previous semester, I took all on-campus classes and ended up failing them all because I stopped going. I wasn't able to handle them. Online classes worked a lot better for me the next semester. Actually, I took one on-campus class that was once a week and close to my house. I didn't go to 3/4ths of the classes, but I still got an A because the lady was a very nice and lenient person. I'm very grateful for her existence. Perhaps she isn't the greatest college professor, though.

>>12893
Not very far at all. I have a lot more to go just so I can transfer to a University. I believe I'll have around 4 semesters to go at this pace.

>>12904
Please elaborate, anon. Are apprenticeships still a thing? I'm very curious.

>>12907
Your post makes me comfy, anon. I wish it were that simple. In essence, it really is, but I don't think that would work well for me. Really though, that kind of simple reasoning gives me hope. I'm sounding lackluster right now because I'm quite tired but thank you!


I'm still unsure of what I want to do. My schedule for next semester is tentative, but I'll have to take at least one class on-campus twice a week (chemistry) at the very minimum. I'm stressed out about it. It's not the end of the world, but I'd rather just stay home. Sometimes I just want to go for a more technical degree like Web Development (which I can do online fully), but then I wonder why I would pay to learn something I could do for free. I'm very conflicted right now and a little frustrated (which varies from low to high throughout the day) about my, and everybody else's similar situation. As a bit of a warning to current NEETs: if you plan on going to college, make sure you're ready before you start because fucking up really sucks.

>>13253
I'm assuming you're american here. Also, apprenticeships are mostly for manual jobs like electricians or mechanic.
http://www.mynextmove.org/find/search?s=apprenticeship

How it works is pretty simple, find something you would like to do, find companies that are looking for apprentices, apply, and do the interview. It's like a minimum wage job where you learn skills and get more money as you learn them. Once you're able to, maybe join a union related to your field so you can get some guaranteed stuff. I really suggest looking more into it, make your own research, as college and universities are pretty much a debt contract for life.

I stopped showing up within the first week of freshman year. As a senior in electrical engineering with a ~3.5, my existence demonstrates the non-essential nature of lectures. Barring courses with mandatory attendance, laboratories, or an unconventional syllabus there is simply no compelling reason to be at the university.

It absolutely can be done, you just need to be proficient at procuring information and independent study. Unless you're unusually receptive to a person-centric learning environment the only function of lectures is to distribute information about examination structure. Since the majority of courses are conducted right out of a textbook, this information will always be available elsewhere. The biggest challenge are deviations from the syllabus - it's quite useful if you can maintain a few contacts to inform of any such irregularities. Also, pillage the fuck out of previous year course websites for materials - not only will having this information straight up raise your gpa by a point but you can use it to "pay", or at least convince the previously mentioned contacts to actually be fucking useful.