Long term NEETs, how do you do it?
I'm an aspiring NEET but I keep getting crap from my parents about it. I feel like too much of a NEET-lite.
So I was able to get a "gap year" between finish school and starting university. And I did nothing for that time, but even then my dad actually forced me to sign on for Job Seeker's Allowance. However, I eventually lost it because I didn't apply for jobs and my dad was mad but he got over it.
And then I went to university for three years which was the closest I got to being a NEET because I didn't go to any lectures or seminars. I should have applied for a masters to keep it going but I fucking didn't because I'm a moron so then I went back home this summer just been.
My dad wanted me to sign on and start looking for jobs. Nowhere was giving me any job offers and the interviews I went to just left me feeling shit. Then my dad told me to sign on but I pretended to sign on and figured I'd just walk around town instead of actually going to JSA.
JSA day: my mum says she's going out and won't be back until gone 11 (my appointment time). Decide I can wait a bit and then leave in my bike and have a nice cycle. My mum gets home early and sees I haven't gone so she offers to drive me in. Drives me in and I walk around the back to go to a nice park. My mum drives past to see me and I run away. She calls me and eventually I go back to the car.
We get home and my dad berates me for ages and tells me I need to get a job and that he's going to charge me rent. I want to work the smallest number of hours possible to cover rent, and he says if I do that he'll increase the rent... just to force me to work longer.
Says he wants me to have a career.
Eventually I decide I'll go into teaching. Because this way I can say I'm getting a career but the way it works means I won't even start training until next september. Dad's happy that I've got a career I want to go into.