I am new to this site. I moved over to live in France this year but have been coming over for the last 8 years. I am a qualified Sports Massage Practitioner I have been practising Sports massage for 6 years and have been working at local football league and rugby league clubs before coming out to France. I served for 20 years in the navy so have a Naval pension. I was hoping, when I got here permanently, to find some part time work in my field through the Auto Entrepreneur system but having looked into it over the past few weeks it looks virtually impossible for my qualification to be recognised here.
I have tried to get work on the ski slopes through a UK company to gain experience of working in France, with no success. I can now understand why this site Surviving France Has anybody on this site tried to get into the system with the same qualifications and any information or advice would be helpful before attempting the Auto Entrepreneur route.
In that case I was wondering whether to even bother filling in the application for Auto Entrepreneur and being told at the end of that my qualifications are not recognised. The best way to go is to find sports events and volunteer and give gratuit massages, then charge an very cheap price as in France "kini"which we laugh at in the United States is Free here because of the socialized medicine. I have tried every massage here from day spa to ostephothate even if you were a PHD Doctor from the United States to France standards you would need to go back to school for at least two years..
I work on the side while attending school here in France. Its like any business give one good massage to one person they tell three and your business begins. It also helps if you are attractive, caring and good at what you do. Steve, I asked my physio during this morning's session. She thinks it is possible but slow to get into your sports massage work here. However the answer might not be the one you really want to have. When she came to France, she had to go through all the issues of getting her qualification validated and so on first.
Then she had to take a job as an assistant to an established therapist. She expected that to be for three years but it was longer and even in this practice whilst she is paying 'rent' and some of her income to the man whose practice it is, he still refers to her as his assistant although she never entered into the agreement on such a condition.
