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Anon gets an ultimatum (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

what you say is true, but it beats NEET for mental health.

In my experience, it causes NEET-tier mental health. These rise-and-grind employment situations burn through people rather than developing them into more skilled and useful workers.

Reach out to every company you can find that fits your criteria

By all means, absolutely do that. But I see a ton of dysfunction on the corporate side of the coin that rarely gets acknowledged when we talk about "NEETs" as a social phenomenon. As though hundreds of thousands of young people just woke up one morning and all decided to be lazy at once. From my experience, people are being thrown into an economic wood chipper. Some of them escape. Some miraculously pass through. But a bunch are torn to shreds - physically, psychologically, emotionally - and then told to take responsibility for their mangled state.

I've seen this arc before, aimed specifically at minority youth groups (African Americans, in particular). From my experience, what comes next is a ton of brutal policing and human immiseration for anyone who can't climb through successfully. And then you get another Ferguson.

[–] Laurentide@pawb.social 3 points 4 months ago

My mental health improved considerably after I was fired from my basic retail job and was no longer spending 8 hours a day having panic attacks and dissociating. It's not good, but it's a lot better than it was and I can't go back to living like that. Even a year later I still sometimes wake up in a panic from nightmares about working in that place.

I want to work and be productive, but every job I could reasonably qualify for has a sanity cost and I'm all tapped out.

[–] Num10ck@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

so what are you suggesting these NEETs do instead?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Not a lot they can do. They're broke, unorganized, and incredibly vulnerable.