Im a 40 year old NEET. I've been a NEET pretty much my whole adult life. Most of the reason i didnt work was because it was hard to get a job not having a high school diploma, also disability didnt give me enough money to get a stable place to live so i mostly lived in rooming houses full of crackheads. Id usually be sharing a bathroom and kitchen with a dozen strangers. Early on in my adult life i bounced between homeless shelters and the rooming houses. The youth shelter kind of enabled me into not just making due with places i lived. They'd just let me in even if i had no reason to be there. One time, the only time I got a job interview, this one was at Walmart 20 years ago they had a problem with the gap in my work experience after awhile i just gave up. It's weird how menial minimum wage jobs even back then expected you to have a flawless work experience(like the gap wasn't even that bad back then) I'm sort of glazing over a lot of details because this happened over 20 years. Id like to get a job now but the market in Canada is especially competitive now. for jobs I want to get into a lot of them are taken up by temporary foreign workers who are subsidized by the government so employers tend to prefer them. Also the long amount of time I've been out of work it probably would give people the idea I've done hard time even though that's not true.