After finishing a short stint of work at a small firm selling water filter systems, I’m back to being unemployed with a job offer pending. So this morning when I reading the article on Britain’s “Broken Society” from The Economist I was particularly intrigued by the concept of “Not in Employment, Education or Training”, or NEET. For this brief period I’m essentially under this sort of classification together with some of my friends, who might be lingering in this category for way longer than I do and will probably stay around until university comes.
Thanks to the Wikipedia article I got introduced to a whole load of similar concepts, including “Parasite Singles“, “Freeter“, and “Twixter“. This is an even wider concept of Boomerang Generation that spawned comedy films like Failure to Launch and Step Brothers. The idealism that is expressed by my generation of kids seem to hint that the figures for people in these classifications would grow.
For now I’ll be sitting back and relaxing at this new status.
