I've always envisioned the life of some white American guy who's been chilling in his Moms basement since his early teen years and has kinda just been doing his own thing since. He's a pretty chill and mellow dude, late 20's, maybe drives a forklift or something for work, kind of an on-and-off NEET. Has a stocky build, goes to the gym whenever he can but isn't super religious about it. He owns the latest gaming gadgets like the PS5, the Switch (hacked) and a mid-end gaming PC. Isn't super gungho about it though, just owns the games and series he likes. He mods most of his systems anyways and revisits old retro games every now and then. Is not a consoomer at all, mostly just shitposts on /v/ and /fit/ and has the free time to do so and browse the latest news of tech, health and business. He's got a cozy bedroom layout with a decade old couch and lots of comforters and carpets laying around. Again isn't a consoomer so rarely if any merch, maybe has a really vanilla poster about birds or some shit. Outside of his gaming rigs he doesn't live an extravagant lifestyle and doesn't pay rent, so he's got a shit ton of savings. Invests for his retirement and is gonna inherit the home anyways. Doesn't care much for girls and meditates every now and then, mostly just goons.

As a kid I've always been so enthralled about that lifestyle and I'm envious when I come across witty anons who offer advice and is an avid shitposter because they probably live like above and are big chilling for life.

Neetdom becomes depressing unless you are rich af it is not satisfying but is nice for short periods if time. Have you noticed a lot of the anons with the most time to lift are often the most dyel somehow?

>>76333612 (OP)
>anons with the most time to lift are often the most dyel somehow?
same with anons without any time. Its almost like most people in general don't want to work out

>>76333612 (OP)
sounds like a really empty and depressive life with nothing to show for. Why do you glorify it?

>>76333698
maybe OPs life is very chaotic right now and he wishes for a comfy living just for a few months

>>76333612 (OP)
What a loser devoid of meaning. I wish neets would just kill themselves.

>>76333705
I was thinking of something similar, but more in the direction that the OP is very ambitious and pushes himself hard, and sometimes seeks escapism in imagining himself living a simple life.

>i'm jealous of rich kids
Arent we all
>>76333698
He's terminally online and young. People around these parts tend to glorify being a loser as a status quo and use it as something to relate to each other and fit in
It's only natural that a kid who ends up here wont realize how much of a death trap that is until it's too late

>>76333612 (OP)
You're describing me and I've had multiple attempts at getting my life together and only now seem to really have a clear path defined of what I want and how to get it. Upper middle class with very supporting parents (probably the issue, however would probably have anhero'd by now without them). The life is comfortable but it's devoid of meaning or purpose especially as you fall out of contact with friends and see them move on in their life and achieve milestones that seem so far from you. NEETdom is insidious, you might plan to neet for a few weeks or months but it creeps up and keeps you in bed whilst the voice about falling behind in life gnaws at the back of your mind. Most of these people have serious mental issues or hangups from previous experiences in life and from that they self sabotage or keep themselves back from pursuing goals.

All I know is compare myself to who I was yesterday and stay focused. Choose life fren, it's better than anything else.

>>76333714
>>>i'm jealous of rich kids
Is OP really so lavish? Let's not kid ourselves most people who've posted on this site historically and now came from decent 'burbs.

>>76333698
>sounds like a really empty and depressive life
What's depressing about
>no nagging roasty
>having enough savings and investments to survive through downturns
>eating at home and avoiding outside slop
>no friend group drama
>work a warehouse job part-time to keep active
>basking in the glory of your solo hobbies
And I'm somehow supposed to feel pity for those living like that? This sentiment is oddly commonly shared here
>>76333714
>death trap
Like what does a good life look to you guys? Genuinely curious.

>>76333753
Its fine until you want something more out of life. I lived like a neet until about 28 years old. All my friends were traveling on their vacations while I couldn't afford it. Thats when I decided to get back into school and get a career

>>76333784
>All my friends were traveling on their vacations while I couldn't afford it.
You would've been ahead of all of them if you worked even a basic wagie bitch job full-time if you saved every penny living under your parents rent-free, which is what is described in OP about driving in the forklift and all.
>Its fine until you want something more out of life
People aren't shit and the culture surrounding you is keen on lying to you until it vultures everything you're worth. If you learn this at 18 and don't bother with frivolous friendships, materialism and women, you're in prime shape to wound up a 35 year old millionaire. Who honestly gives a fuck about travelling to tourist areas?

>>76333801
I don't think you understand that neets already don't care what society expects, thats the whole point of being a neet. Im saying you come to the realization you actually do want those things later on.
Its completely on the individual though. You can continue being alone, no one really cares.

Neets come in different flavors. I'm in training to be an absolute unit, but I'm not in a career or formal education environment.

>>76333698
Contrast that to a man who is in their late 40s, makes 120k a year, has a gay kid and a divorced wife, a huge fan of football but no real hobbies.
Aren't both of them going to be forgotten and their lives meaningless 500 years from now?

>>76333870
One will die more comfortably than the other due to aquiring property and money

>>76333612 (OP)
Dream life

>>76333612 (OP)
I have incredible feelings to want to train to get as jacked as possible but if i couldnt before so i definitely cant get now, so im mostly training for maintainence, this allows my workouts to be less stressful and i can really focus on other hobbies such as golf, guitar and chess, also i have been able to do more cardio simply because my body isnt fucking dead from some grueling 2 hour strength training

>>76333631
>unless you are rich af
Even if you're rich it's depressing. See: Notch. As a human you need to participate in society to feel like you have a purpose. You cannot undo your natural hardwiring to be social.

>>76333877
That's where the bar is set? On how comfortable of a death they'll have?

>>76333612 (OP)
this is pretty much my life as a WFHchad but I lift every day

Miserable existence

>>76333753
>Like what does a good life look to you guys?
Not living in a hole ? I've tried neetdom cavemaxxing gaming all day long and sitting on discord while doomscrolling 4chan. It sucks when you finally get your shit together and find irl buddies or something manual to do
Also most of your online friends have a life. They're just keeping that side hidden away because they're crabs in a bucket

>>76333953
I wouldnt work if i wasnt worried about what life might be like when i grow old. That's just me. Im starting to see this shitty society like im grinding for wealth in an mmo. Work now, even morr fun later than i could afford to have now. I spent my early 20s doing what i want and i have nothing.

>>76334044
Dunno why i said early 20s. My whole life until early 30s and knly now attaining marketable skills. I do find creating things people are happy with to be very satisfactory.

>>76334024
>neetdom
Why do you niggers insist on inserting your headcannon even though my post and OPs specifically say the guys got a warehouse job? Does it not occur to you that you can live a basement dwelling life while also being employed? They're not mutually exclusive.

I was a NEET and had no material worries but still lived every day in dread. How would I sustain this lifestyle if I got sick or when my parents died? So I went to college and got a job and got the salary and bought a house and got a girlfriend.

And you know what? I still have that sense of impending dread. What happens when I get sick and can’t work anymore? At least my girlfriend gets life insurance. But every day I find myself wishing I just remained a NEET, didn’t cave to the outward societal peer pressure, or listen to anyone who says it’s a miserable existence. It’s actually the dream life, and the grass isn’t greener in society. If I could, I would go back and be happy with my life. That’s the decision I should have made 8 years ago.

>>76334054
There's an entire post that you ignored as well because it doesn't match your worldview, you're clutching at pearls now because you didn't get the validation you wanted.
OP also mention him being an on and off NEET. Sorry to burst your bubble but if you want encouragement to be a mentally ill recluse try posting on >>>/r9k/ or /a/ next time

>>76334064
It's the dream life until you're 50, parents dead, zero actual friends, and you're rudely forced to just now figure out how to survive. Good luck

>>76333877
Post nose

>>76334102
Very well thought out rebuttal, thanks. Have fun dying poor while blaming it on duh jews.

>>76333612 (OP)
i do this full time now that i figured out how to make rent money with the help of the stock market. the rest of the time i help out with my mother's teaching workload and do handyman shit for my dad's real estate business when i want to feel like contributing. i try to take on a new or continuing project every 10-12 days (programming, complete a book, beat a video game, edit a video, garden) to get a sense of accomplishment. i have a lot of time to work on my body and play sports so i do that several times a week. i chat up every girl i meet and sometimes it works out. i wish i had more of a social life and a sense of belonging to society or improving other people's condition sometimes but being a wagie isn't my idea of living the good life fasho

>>76333698
Only depressing if you're poor or live In a black or brown neighborhood

>>76333707
Shut the fuck up.
There's no meaning in life besides sexy fit blonde women. If you don't have that, then meditate, take drugs, and chill out.

>>76333612 (OP)
I've been unemployed for 7 months (thanks Biden and Trump) and this shit sucks. I've exhausted my nerdy hobbies, done all the /sig/ reading, found God, lost him, found him again but made a deal with the Devil, skeeted around for some tail, tried to keep my mind occupied, and it fucking sucks. I love when NEETs go
>I enjoy being a NEET because I can focus on my hobbies.
Bitch, your hobby is some obscure autistic interest like how books were sewn together in 6th century AD Vietnam. And you get fucking assmad that people don't wanna listen to you give entire YouTube essay speeches over 1 question. If you're that autistic to where you cannot function IRL, then sure. Maybe it's better.

>>76333877
You can't take it with you.
The divorce-raped man with a single mindfucked troon offspring is the bigger loser than the NEET. They both have no legacy, but at least the NEET got to enjoy vidya and freedom during his best years.
That said, the successful parent handily beats both of the above, so that's what you should aim for.

>>76334319
>the neet got enjoy vidya
Wow such a fucking great use of total freedom, you poor fag underachiever.

>>76334319
Ok? I still want to have disposible income when im old.

>>76333870
>a gay kid and a divorced wife
so just because you could fail, you would rather not even try?

>>76333612 (OP)
I don't quite live like a stereotypical NEET anymore but I did until my late 20s, then I got any fucking job that would let me work for 8 hours (to a fucking second) with 2 to 3 free days a week and I've been doing ok jobs since.

I do NOT care about my career at all, I know I should but it's just not happening. As long as my job is stable and I can save some money every month I'm cool. What I care about i my free time and how tired I am to do the shit I want to do.

>>76334342
Exactly what I do, I work 2 or three days a week and neet the others, work out 3 days a week. The only problem is my retirement is nonexistent but I don't plan on living to my 60s

>>76334340
would 10 kids and a loving wife really change anything? your great great great grandchildren arent going to achieve anything meaningful either

>>76334386
you mean there is no difference between watching your kids and grandkids grow, dying surrounded by a loving family, vs growing old alone, have nothing to look for, while your body and mind degrades every day, dying being taken care by some unmotivated, underpaid migrant worker
If you have nobody to care for you, your last years will be hell.

>>76334340
>so just because you could fail, you would rather not even try?
yup, especially if failing could come at a great cost to your already precarious situation.
>t. 90k saving no friends no gf monk

>>76333730
How old are you anon?

>>76334362
Luckily I'll have some good retirement money thanks to my current job (that is if I don't get drafted to go die in a sandy shithole or the company fails). If I do get drafted I'm 100% annihilating myself because if they pick me of all people then they're in dire need of cannon fodder, my goodbye note will be "Death before fighting for DYELs"

tfw I was a neet for 10 years, maybe more, I can't even remember. Semi got my shit together now although I still live with my parents. This shit has ruined my life