I'm gonna be "rejoining" normal daily life next year. Has anyone done this recently? I'm probably just going to keep to myself since I'm most likely going to be around younger folk anyway.

>>81755123 (OP)
Yes.
I spent a good two years as a full NEET and three more in mom's basement pretending to look for jobs.
Then I got an opportunity to train for a specific craft, went through that and now I'm living "the normal life" to an extent.
I thought I would be unable to adapt but no, it all went pretty okay, miraculously enough.

>>81755161
Training doesn't really mean you'll get hired though... Which sucks.

If you've been out there before, you will get the hang of it again pretty quick.
Sometimes I can't believe I spent 5 full years as a NEET in my 20's. It's like my little secret.

I warn you, it really is getting worse out there though. Things are never going back to the way they were and normies are starting to figure that out.
It's shoot first and ask questions later out here at the moment.

>>81755178
I did land a job very quickly after that, which was lucky for me.
The place kinda sucks, the owner is shit but my workshop buddy is a complete /o/tist so we can somewhat kick it off.

>>81755186
I'm basically just going to make enough money to buy a condo and then go back to NEETing. Of course I could always get Section 8 housing but something tells me I wouldn't qualify or even like that lifestyle, plus my mom is getting older and I want to be able to have a place for her to live when she's elderly and shit.
I'm quite torn on the whole social life thing and if I should even bother, but if it's that bad out there I'll have to wait and see anyway.

>>81755198
That's usually a good thing if you got hired quickly it means they value your skillset (or maybe they were desperate or you had connections, idk). I kind of went insane from constant rejection after my grad program, I couldn't even graduate because no one would give me an internship. It felt like a cruel joke because I did pretty well in the program too. So I just worked minimum wage shit until I got burnt out from overwork. Oh well. More training is my plan but I might just work only to cut through some of the bullshit, not like anyone will hire me to do anything important anyway.

>>81755229
It was in a new field and a new geographic area for me so I didn't know they were desperate and have a pretty bad reputation but I'm not complaining. I have some work to do, I'm getting paid more than I previously had when doing temporary work while living with my family and spending the rest of the day collecting the "Unfortunately..." emails.
Man, the high I got when it sunk in that I would no longer need to deal with that kind of shit every day was like nothing else.

I have for about a year, I want to go back to NEETing. I have no problem with the people I work with or the work itself necessarily, I just have some sort of mental problem that makes me want to isolate myself in my room forever. I have no idea what to call this, it feels like a primal urge rather than anything logical.

>>81755403
i too have the run away mentality

>>81755403
>>81755636
It's called anxiety, niggas

>>81755202
>I'm basically just going to make enough money to buy a condo and then go back to NEETing.
does your money just manifest through the air once you buy housing or what? are you gonna rent it out? you gonna pay tax? you gonna buy shit? what is the sole reasoning behind this