If physical or mental health issues bar you I’d consider that different. I never really understood how you can live your life being a NEET. Its a term I’ve known about for awhile but only recently remembered was a thing. Do you have bills? Do you have autonomy in general? Whats the living situation look like? Is the term offensive? I have a ton of questions really. Not here to shit on anyone I’m just full of curiosity on this one.
I am, i quit work at 40 am now 60, i had thought to do some higher ed (I do have a Science degree) but it’s too expensive here in Australia.
of course, i made some lucky investments early in, with a little surplus cash, they’ve grown and cover my expenses.
within reason sure. I have always been reasonably frugal and lived under the maxim of spending less then I earn and investing the rest. That has served me well and I still do that albeit the income side has ballooned from compounding investments over the deacdes but my spending hasn’t.
I have a cheap, modest cottage in a quiet rural area that I own, no mortgage. I get all the free beef i want as my farmer neighbor uses my small back paddock (as well as his paddock) for his cattle and pays me rent in free beef. I don’t eat much beef though and give a fair bit of it to a homeless charity locally, they prepare meals with it. He also pays me a notial $500p.a
I travel overseas in SE Asia for 8 months a year. I have inexpensive hobbies, I ride my MTB and cycle, hike, walk, have a home gym, grow fruit and vegetables. Have a bunch of solar panels in my roof and have near zero electricity bills, have a cheap ecar and ebike that charge off said panels. I don’t have to commute fie work of course. I can walk to my local library but also have a kobo ebook reader, a zillion ebooks managed via Calibre and use overdrive to borrow ebooks from the library sometimes.
I play some tennis, pickleball, badminton in the community, they are all free. I swim in the local pool in Summer as it has free entry etc have a older desktop, a laptop (both on linux) and use nearly all FOSS software and an android phone with most software from F Droid. I hope to move to Graphene eventually. I have no subs to software or tv etc. I don’t have a lot of time to watch TV, people who work full time mostly seem to do that. i do watch YT a bit (Newpipe etc)
my gf lives with me, she works 3 days a week part-time for 4 months a year if that’s what you’re asking. We travel OS together. She’s a Chef and cooks amazing meals and loves growing fresh produce in our yard.
I have been living like this for just over 2 decades. I was living off grid for 11 years with my gf, my own solar, own water, grew lots of my own food etc in a small cottage in the bush but have since moved for climate change related reasons.
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That sounds like FIRE than NEET but idk there can be overlap.
The guy has a beautiful arrangement but it is neither NEET or Fire as he rents land and sells beef.
Is being retired the same as being a NEET, though? I retired in my 40s and live with my bf, who works, but not sure if that’s what people mean when they use that term.
What’s the difference?
Retirees are using money they saved, SS, pension etc that they earned during their working years, and I understand NEETs to be adults young and capable but disinterested in working/training, whether they have income/savings/pushover parents/sugar-parents.
So it’s basically just a judgment call of whether someone “deserves” to avoid working, because of having had a job in the past? To me it’s basically the same if people are living the same sort of life, because those sorts of judgments are not a good way to consider a person’s identity. It’s only natural to not want a job and the main question is whether you have the means to avoid being coerced into it, people who have the means are really in the same category.