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[Juvencio Parise]

Are you just living in your sister's basement, occasionally watching her kids, doing the laundry, or just playing video games, with no career prospects, no college courses or job training in your schedule and, from a business point of view at least, not contributing much, if anything at all, to the economy? You might be a NEET. Not currently engaged in Employment, Education or Training.

The NEET is most commonly an older teen or college-age male. A NEET is either between jobs and the unemployed period has got extended; an idiot who has failed the entrance exams for college; a Lazy Bum with no goals in life, freeloading off whichever pals or family members will allow them to sleep in their basement, or they are motivated but only to do geeky hobbies that don't have a real career-oriented path (a basement Garage Band, cosplaying, penning Giftedly Bad poetry, or playing a Role-Playing Game).

Occasionally the NEET might also be a shut-in, and shunning society due to being unable to function well in it, because of some debilitating disorder, agoraphobia, depression, anxiety, or peer pressure.

Whether their condition is their fault or not, they are likely to get no respect whatsoever, be called an embarrassment to their friends and family, or have "Get a job, you bum!" yelled in their face at least once. Often more than once. Living in a family member's basement or living in a van by the river will probably cramp their dating prospects, too.

Anything else, such as treating their situation as a symptom of a systemic problem of modern society, is uncommon enough to be considered a subversion, except in Kitchen Sink Drama, where joblessness is depicted as the side effect of capitalism's grinding wheels and boom-bust cycles. Regardless, it must be noted that the modern unfortunate conditions on the job market in many developed countries mean that the unemployed gradually undergo a shift from mockworthy targets to being considered genuinely unfortunate. Thus, in order to actually deserve mockery, a NEET in modern media is often given other typically negative qualities such as being a slob.

Pretty Freeloaders generally manage to dodge this stigma on the account of, well, being pretty or handsome, despite the fact that they might not contribute money or sweat equity to the household, as it's more socially acceptable for a woman to be without an income than it is for a man (though this is changing). Only a woman in these circumstances who is also actively being hassled for not having a job or being in school can be considered a NEET. A housewife does not count, despite technically fulfilling all three of this trope's requirements, as they are a homemaker and/or stay-at-home parent, so they are doing contributing to society.

In Real Life, the OECD puts the age range for NEET at 15-29. About 1/3 of the NEET cohort is still looking for work; 2/3 are discouraged and are no longer looking for a job. While fictional depictions like to show middle-class slackers sleeping in their parents' nice house, OECD data shows that NEET youth are more likely to come from poor families and have physical/mental health issues, addiction problems, and poor literacy skills. Young women are more likely to not work or go to school due to being the sole or primary carer of a family member (e.g., a child or an elderly parent or grandparent), hence, technically NEET, but not a "slacker".

Comic Books

• Scott Pilgrim: Scott Pilgrim freeloads off his friend Wallace for most of the comic, doesn't have a job, isn't in school, and is frequently told to get a life. This eventually changes, starting with him getting a job dishwashing at Stephen Stills' restaurant.
• The Unbelievable Gwenpool. Her backstory is revealed in issue 16: she dropped out of high school and has no job, and has very little connection to the outside world. This takes a toll on her home life, as her parents grow more and more openly fed up with her, and this helps push her towards the main Marvel universe.

Fan Works

• In Danganronpa: Last Hurrah, Nao Hisoka has the dubious honor of being the Ultimate NEET. For those who aren't familiar with Danganronpa, an "Ultimate"(or "Super High School Level" in the original Japanese), is a high school student who is the best at what they do, thereby gaining an invitation to the exclusive Hope's Peak Academy. That being said, he does occasionally come to school for tests and other events, so he isn't completely a NEET. In the final trial, Nao acknowledges that he shouldn't count as a NEET, but someone who "slack(s) off." He was invited because one of the officials saw potential in him, and given the title because it was "believable enough."

Live-Action TV

• Seinfeld: Kramer is a NEET, but no one cares because he finds a way to "fall ass-backwards into money". George occasionally fits the bill, when he doesn't have a job and lives with his parents, and he definitely fits the "pathetic" mold:Kramer: Do you have a job?George: No.Kramer: You got money?George: No.Kramer: You got a woman?George: No.Kramer: Do you have any prospects?George: Uh...no.Kramer: Do you have any action at all?George: ...No.Kramer: Do you have any conceivable reason for even getting up in the morning?!George: ...I like to get the Daily News.
• The Broad City episode "St. Marks" has a 34-year-old man who lives with his mother after dropping out of graduate school and kills time by pretending to be homeless and robbing people as a "joke."
• The Barrier: lex downplays this. He's technically jobless, but he's frequently seen helping out in the store run by his brother's mother-in-law and ends up becoming a general errand boy for the rest of his family. Early in the series, lex points out that his lack of job gives him time to do the legwork necessary to help his brother with a bureaucratic process that the government seems to be intentionally making difficult and time-consuming. Later, when a policeman expecting him to be part of some sort of organization asks him who he's working for, he's technically being truthful by claiming he's working for nobody.
• My Name Is Earl:
• Both Earl and Randy dropped out of high school and were unemployed for most of their adulthood aside from working the occasional odd job. Prior to the list, Earl and Randy sustained themselves through petty theft, but after turning their lives around, Earl won $100,000 on a lottery ticket. Earl eventually realized that he couldn't just rely on the lottery winnings, so he and Randy got their GEDs and jobs at an appliance store, with both losing their jobs after Earl went to prison for a crime that his ex-wife Joy committed (Earl took the blame in order to save Joy from getting her third strike and serving life in prison). Randy got a job as a prison guard so that he could still be with Earl, but after Earl got out of prison, he struggled to find work due to being a felon and he had spent all of his lottery money by that point. After a brief return to crime and a horrible marriage to a friend's former girlfriend, he is given a $75,000 insurance settlement and is back to where he was before.
• A later episode saw Earl attempting to make amends with his former babysitter, who was impregnated by her boyfriend as a result of Earl poking holes in the condom. The babysitter married her boyfriend and they are seemingly living a good life. Except that their now 22-year-old son is still living with them, unemployed and not in school, just lounging around in his underwear all day. Earl decides to make up to them by forcing the son to get a job and move out.

Tabletop Games

• Slacker Magician from Yu-Gi-Oh!. In fact, they call her Shyneet Magician in the OCG. Her roommate Alchemic Magician harasses her to get some work done in Xyz Tribalrivals. She eventually turns her life around as Downerd Magician.

Theatre

• Lizard Boy: Trevor spends most of his days shut in his tiny apartment, playing his cello, talking to the drawings on his wall, and getting complaints from his neighbors to stop writing such sad songs all the time. He hasn't even been outside in a year, scared of being judged for his green lizard scales.

Video Games

• Akiba's Beat: The main character, Asahi, came to Tokyo to enter college, but failed. Now he lives off his family's money while lying to them that he's actually studying. In fact, it becomes a minor plot point, as after months of NEET lifestyle he became used to sleeping until well after noon, and his friends have to wake him up on every iteration of the "Groundhog Day" Loop they've been stuck in.
• Mae Borowski, the protagonist of Night in the Woods. She drops out of college due to having such severe disassociative episodes that she can't even function at school anymore, which may or may not have been caused by an Eldritch Abomination known as the Black Goat. Mae spends most of the game running around town, talking to her friends, committing crimes, and doing Womanchild things, while her parents encourage her to have some ambition.
• Jason Brody, protagonist of Far Cry 3: the in-game description says that he has only worked odd jobs since leaving college. We are not told how he has financed a long string of extreme sports trips and a holiday in South East Asia, but it is possible that he is sponging off his "extremely rich friend" Oliver, who, in turn, is probably sponging off his father.Oliver: [proposing a toast] Here's to my black card, and to my daddy's black card!
• Jason actually comes from a wealthy background. It's possible he funds most of his hobbies via a trust fund. That or he simply asks his mother and/or older brother for money (his father died several years prior to the game's storyline).
• Speaking of fanon, there's a widespread joke/meme in Japanese Raidou Kuzunoha fandom that Narumi is a NEET (in canon he runs a detective agency, but it doesn't seem to be very successful).
• Touhou Project:
• Kaguya is often depicted as a NEET in fanon. In Canon... it depends on whether you consider being technically in charge of a household to be a job. As a princess, it's arguably her job to not have a job.
• Fanon does the same to Patchouli Knowledge, tying in with the canonical facts that she lives in her friend Remilia's house, spends all day in the library, and has very poor health (including asthma and anemia). Fan works that depict both Patchy and Kaguya as NEETs will usually have them being friends as well.
• Arngrim's crippled brother Roland from Valkyrie Profile gets labelled as this when his brother gets tired of his naive attitude of drawing arts for pleasure while it's him who sustains their living. Roland has a sounding excuse for him doing what he wants, causing Arngrim to reflect that everybody, even himself, has something they want to do in their life outside gaining money. Unfortunately, things don't go well for Roland. Arngrim commits suicide and becomes an einherjar while Roland continues to suffer. Then he suddenly disappears from the game.
• In Persona 5, one Mementos Target is a cheater who's unemployed. After being defeated, his Shadow laments that his boss laid him, a 40-year-old, off, due to wanting to make the organization younger.
• In The New Order: Last Days of Europe, the German economy in 1962, nearly twenty years after the Nazis won World War II, is dominated by slavery in menial professions while Aryan citizens live lives of luxury. Many younger Germans raised on the spoils of slavery have nothing to do except go to school, and when combined with both economic malaise and easy access to American pop culture and Marxist literature through the black market, many have grown radicalized and started supporting Albert Speer's reform movement.
• inFAMOUS: Second Son: Delsin Rowe is implied to be this. When Fetch asks Delsin how he puts up with Reggie, Delsin replies "He pays the bills". Later on in the game while investigating the missing Conduits, Reggie suggests deputizing Delsin so that he'll have a job for a change.

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