A NEET, an acronym for "Not in Education, Employment, or Training", is a person who is unemployed and not receiving an education or vocational training.
If you're Gen-Z, the economy you're expected to navigate is almost entirely centered around asset bubbles and content creation.
That's no joke. The value of labor has gone down so much that it's making everything from college-degree-required careers to trades non viable if you want to live independently as a grown adult. Young men are simply giving up because there's no point in working full time just to come home to your childhood bedroom or a house with 10 roommates. Bootstraps people don't understand what life is like growing up after the great reset. There's no real hope unless you're able to pull a rabbit out of the hat with some business or catch the last bus to some dying industry.
Inflation has been bad in the past. I'm sure people who came of age under Carter think I'm being overdramatic. But in the 70s, you could show up and get a decent job that paid well. If you worked hard every day, you could expect decent pay and a pension. I'm sure it wasn't easy, but there was incentive. Now there's no incentive.
People are applying for 400+ jobs and getting 2 competitive interviews months after graduating college. AI is literally used to survey resumes now so most aren't even being seen by a real human being. I don't know a single person my age who would rather live now than 50 years ago. Our economy is dead. Our society is dead. There's no point in playing into a system that's obviously on it's death bed. We'll be living under socialism or some sort of "fall of Rome" scenario but our achievements in this world will count for nothing by the time we're old enough to allegedly be able to retire.
They can get themselves a aircraft mechanics license and do very well. Withing a few years they could earn 100k +
Tons of skilled labor positions and fields like this. 👍 There's no shortage of good paying jobs.
Well that's it then. We had a good run. Too bad society is dead and the system is on its death bed and our achievements will count for nothing. No incentive to change. Last bus. Dying industry. Dead economy. Dick won't get hard. The McRib is gone and would be unaffordable if it wasn't. Dogs and cats living in fear. Iran is on their 23rd year of being 2 weeks away from having a nuke. Your mama don't dance and your daddy don't rock and roll.
All very true
You forgot something at the end of this fren:
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Why is this tagged "Q-analysis!"? This is a pure doom post.
NEET is a funny way to spell BETA!
Changed it
Create your own employment.
Do something that you love.
Do it well.
Do it for yourself.
Others will see the benefit and value in what you do and gladly compensate you well for it. It has been working for me my entire life.
And 4. Have it taxed and regulated to the point of homelessness
Oh geesh. I'll put this off to you being uber young and with a head full of mush. Life is hard, kid. What choices do ANY of us have other than to buck up or to check out?
My favorite great-aunt talks about how when she was young and bought her first house she was paying 15% interest. Even biden's 7% isn't as bad as that. And she talks about how at her first job she made $1.45 an hour. Think that was easy to live on? Even then? That plethora of good paying jobs you mentioned didn't exist according to her. She grew up in the 70s and bought her first house in the early 80s. (I've heard these stories so many, many times.)
Time to put on your big boy pants and man up. Or you could just give up and live in your parent's basement (what interest rate were they paying when they first bought a house?) Every generation has it's challenges. Do you think those who fought in WWI, survived that AND the great depression, then saw their kids shipped off to WWII had it BETTER than you? Seriously? Evil and corrupt politicians have gotten us into this mess and REAL men and women, and a handful of patriotic politicians lead by God will get us out of this mess. If you're not one of the real men, then step aside and let us do our job.
We have been trapped in Clown World for too long, and the economic circus is starting to fall apart around us with the cabal trying to block off the exits
All of my kids started careers (in tech) making more than I have ever. Do t know how but maybe they are lucky. But yeah, one spends his entire after work on video games and fantasy football. Can’t change a spare tire though.