I am 27, recently divorced, and now wishing I was a NEET

When I was young, I saw a reddit post about NEETs and that they were lazy bums living in their basements and mostly unemployed. My mother has a degree in psychology (and works as a teacher) because my father wanted her to waste her time with a degree. As a result, my mother is extremely pro degree. She pretty much still is pro degree because that now is her entire career. In that case, I was locked into the idea that a degree was everything, and if I didn't get a good one then I would be a bum. Result is that I got poor grades, and did end up with a degree anyway, but mostly through dumb luck.<br><br>I even met my ex wife in college, and we got married.<br><br>However, now my degree mostly sits on a shelf and is never used or even looked at. I wish I could get a better job, but no luck.<br><br>So I have no useable skills, degree, or employment prospects.<br><br>The other problem is that I feel like a massive hypocrite, now that I know how the game works. I pushed my wife into not working. Now I regret it. Sorry, not sorry being the infamous and oft-rebuked reply that comes to mind.<br><br>I feel like I should have skipped college entirely, not gotten married, and gotten a blue collar job at 18. At least then I could have bought a house.<br><br>I even had arts interests, but I was discouraged from them at a young age because, as my mother even now says, there is no money in them. Funny now, though, because my ex still is still working on her arts and crafts. I should have skipped college because I had no idea what I wanted to do. I still don't know what I could do that would make a decent living.<br><br>I just wish I had never gotten married.<br><br>I wish I could be a NEET.<br><br>**Edit:** If any of you have an issue with me saying I pushed my ex to not work, no, I did not do that to oppress a woman. I literally did that because I still believed in the idea that a man protects and provides, as my dad did for us. In that case, I did it out of good intentions. And I regret it. You can also look at my other posts. I am not a misogynist.