- Want to work lesser hours, more focused, more intensely?
- Wish you had more time for your friends & family while developing a side business?
- Want to change of atmosphere?
- Think your skills are under-appreciated where you live?
- Move to France.
An Outline of the article:
- Work-Life Balance
- 35 hours work week
- Where to Work?
- In Which Sectors?
Work-Life Balance
- Will your work-life balance be any different if you move to France?
- Ultimately, it depends on you.
- But if you’ve decided to move it must mean that you intend to make it happen.
- Maybe you moved for transportation fluidity, which will make you save an extra hour every day.
- Maybe for a better atmosphere, which will grant you a better health & will allow you to save time & money on medical treatment.
- Maybe you’ve adopted a minimalist lifestyle when moving which will ,again, allow you to save time & money.
35 hours work week
- What would you do if you had an extra 5 hours every week?
- An extra hour every day?
- Spend more time with friends & family?
- Start a side project?
- Yes, you can.
- And you don’t even have to cut another hour of leisure time.
Where to Work?
- In Paris, Marseilles or Lyon?
- Yes, you can.
- Although the 3 biggest cities of France are less & less sough after.
- The reasons?
- Pollution, criminality & congested traffic.
- Maybe the same reasons why you quit your country in the 1st place.
- If you want to have a glimpse of the French Metropolises, you could always live in the suburbs, or just out of the center.
- There are also options like Aix, Bordeaux or Dijon, which offer more reasonable housing options.
- Working in Western France?
- French people want to work in Western France.
- Why?
- Unemployment is low, and it decreases.
- The train & aerial web is consistant & effective.
- This is true for most of France, but even more so in the West.
- The degree of integration of young people in the market is higher.
- The median wage is high.
- Regions such as Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Pays de la Loire & Bretagne are more & more attractive to French people.
- Bretagne(Brittany), has long been a favorite of travelers, especially British, and foreigners who wished to install in France.
- Today Rennes is 1 of the top choices for French people & people from abroad alike.
- If you prefer a bigger city & warmer climate Bordeaux, the capital of Nouvelle-Aquitaine would suit you.
- If you are fine with something more temperate & prefer a calmer, smaller place, Angers is for you.
- Example of western french Cities & Town you may consider: Lyon, Grenoble, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Annecy, Chambéry, Tours et Clermont-Ferrand.
In Which Sectors?
Transportation, Logistics & Supply chain:
- The Cariste (Forklift operator) manages merchandises stocks (transportation, checking & quality control).
- The Agent de fabrication (processing agent) is managing the conception of products mainly in automobile, plasturgie, electrical/electronic appliances, automotive & aeronautics.
- Conducteurs de poids lourds (truck drivers) is another job where offers explode.
- Finally, Techniciens de maintenance (service technicians) is the job category that recruits the most.
- All these jobs are now qualified as ‘metier en tension’, or highly sough after jobs.
B2B Marketing:
- Customer Success Specialist, this one requires a sense of information flux management, managing the balance between marketing & adds, but also knowledge of financial services.
- Community Manager, this 1 will be sough after in the domains of Marketing & adds, of course, but also Local Branding, PR, and Sports.
Civil engineering, Construction & Real Estate
- These jobs will be in demand because New Cities (e.g. Strasbourg) are emerging & metropolises (e.g. Lyon) are growing.
- There is another reason.
- In certain parts of France, real estate becomes inappropriately over-priced.
- The solution? Build new buildings & sell them.
Agriculture & Food engineering.
- This is where you’ll find some of the Frenchest jobs such as Viticulteur or Sommelier.
- But also Ingénieur agronome as well as œnologue.
- Central France invests heavily in Food engineering, especially town like Angers.
- More & more universities & institutes are specialized in Agriculture & Agro-engineering.
Machine Learning & Cyber Security
- If you’re already a computer scientist/engineer, a programmer or a software engineer you will integrate easily to the market, wherever you are in AI or not.
- Know that France is 1 of the biggest investors in machine learning, probably the 1st in Europe.
- So, if you’re honing your Python & Tensorflow/Keras skills, France could be the country for you.
