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It's not necessarily on purpose or being a burden on anyone. Last year I spent quite a while as a NEET living off my savings while job hunting. Yes it's generally tied to those who are voluntarily unemployed without savings or responsibilities, but that's just among those taking pride or joking about it. It's just an economic category, and it's one that I and many others fear we may be forced into in the near future.
that isn't what a neet is dude.
you were just normal unemployed. lots of people are unemployed for long periods of time while actively looking for a new job, or take on temp/part time work in lieu of full time salaried employment.
NEET is people who actively do not pursue employment, aren't in school, and who refuse to work at all. Most often they are just young people who are totally dependent on their families/parents. Sometimes they are just rich people who don't have to work and fuck around. Often they are socially isolated and don't have active social involvement with anyone.
My personal experience with NEETs is they often had well-off family who just let them fuck around for years because their parents had co-dependent personalities, or paranoid/controlling personalities, and hence they'd rather have their kid be NEET than independent of them.
NEET literally means "not in employment, education or training", it's just not usually used by people who are short-term unemployed, have a socially acceptable excuse (e.g. "housewife") or fit into other well-established categories like "homeless".
Lots of NEETs are older. They might end up on the streets if they don't have a family that is able and willing to care for them, but homeless are still NEET (unless they are working while homeless, which is actually a thing). Homeless just aren't usually visible online.
I am 60 and a NEET, have been so since I was 40 but I am a self funded NEET.
There's some others in this thread that really need to read your comment, but they are to busy making excuses for strangers.