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[–] [email protected] 59 points 3 months ago (19 children)

I wish one of my close buddies would get this. He is nearly 30 and has never held down a job. He feels like life is pointless, has no money, cannot afford anything. He kinda wants a job, but all he can imagine are super unique positions like being a jeweler, a historic weapons restoration or other obscure jobs. I hate to burst his bubble but his jobs are often unrealistic for his experience and education level but he refuses to do some basic position.

For example, he has never owned or fired a gun and doesn't have a gun lisence but expects a museum will hire him to work on historic firearms. He refuses to attenpt to get any other positon. He is just waiting for his mom to get enough money to move to a different city so he can go to another college program to try to get this job. He won't even do the first step in my opinion which is getting a gun lisence and getting actual experience with real firearms.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 77 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not Employed, in Education, or Training.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 months ago (13 children)

I swear, the older I get, the harder it is to keep up with these acronyms.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I only know these thanks(?) to the Internet, honestly.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

I learned about this acronym in a Geography class in school, 15 years ago, and this wasn't in an English speaking country. So it's old enough and common enough that it was part of the curriculum even though it was a foreign acronym.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 3 months ago (5 children)

That's a common phenomenon, it's called AAAAA (age associated absence of acronym awareness).

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 months ago

This is not a new acronym by any means

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

"Not in Education, Employment or Training"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Unemployed but not a student either.

Edit: Neither retired.

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago

Employmentmaxxed

[–] [email protected] 95 points 3 months ago

Hell yeah anon

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