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Mentor migrants to success in France

Over-50s are using their expertise to help job-seekers secure jobs through the Duo for a Job programme

I now sell my art at local French markets

Annaliza Davis explains how she started selling her paintings and what she has learned from the experience

I moved to France and became owner of a reclamation and salvage yard

When Nick Powell, 55, came to France at the tender age of 20, it was to help with a building project on a house close to Poitiers

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Installing a natural pool at French home led to a new job

Alex Wells explains how building her own chlorine-free swimming pool led to a new role

I moved to France and became an English translator by accident

A letter to a magazine editor in 1997 complaining about its poor translation led to a job offer to do better

Career change: Africa safari guide to recycled art in France

We talk to Josie Easton about how wildlife still influences her ‘trash-to-treasure’ artwork in Limousin

‘I got a French master’s degree based on my professional experience’

A senior manager, originally from Italy, explains how he converted real-life experience into a recognised VAE qualification

Career change: ‘What I learned at 54 working in a French vineyard’

We talk to Moira Tune about how exhausting vineyard work was the springboard to her new property career

Career change in France: Amsterdam charity to gîte guru in Dordogne

We talk to a successful gîte owner and consultant about why he quit a top fundraising job for a new life in France

Career change in France: I Googled ‘can animals talk to people?’

Colleen Kersey tells how a Reiki experience helped her discover she can talk to animals

‘I drew in five minutes the absolute pain of a lifetime’

Retired courtroom artist shares her many years of experience covering France’s most memorable and harrowing trials

Career change in France: ‘I never tire of talking about World War Two’

From graphic designer to D-Day tour business - we speak to a Dutch woman who turned her passion for history into a new life

Career change in France: Alpacas really feel like family

Sophie Hargreaves tells The Connexion how she went from housing to husbandry

Career change in France: ‘My passion for pottery now pays the bills’

Sara Wevill explains how she finally found the confidence to make a living from ceramics

‘My back pain inspired me to retrain in France as a Bowen therapist’

In the UK Elaine Cronin was a poultry specialist but severe back pain changed the course of her new French life

Career change: UK charity CEO close to burnout found balance in France

Claudia Ryan-Jones, 52, moved her family to France in 2017 and swapped a stressful job in youth work for a remote admin role and loves it

Lawyer to chef: My hobby inspired me to open a crêperie in French Alps

‘I had what I now see as a bit of a midlife crisis!’ says American Rachel Howard

We bought a lake in France and turned our fishing holidays into jobs

In our ongoing series about people who have changed career in France, Mike Dagnall describes how he went from being a glazer in the UK to owning a carp lake in Normandy

'My experience of being a district nurse in France: C’est différent'

Retired nurse Alice Denot explains how her career took a different turn after she moved to France from the UK

Making sense of post-baccalauréat options in France

July 7 is the date when final-year lycée students will know whether they have passed their baccalauréat – and for many this will finalise a place for further study.

How a mason climbed his way to career carved in stone

Christophe Allegri has worked with stone for 30 years after discovering his interest in architecture during student antics climbing on scaffolding, pipes and church guttering

French ex-surfer turns hemp farmer

Retired professional surfer Vincent Lartizien has relaunched professional hemp growing in France. He now has 40 bio-farmers producing the crop while he develops factories to process it.

In pursuit of happiness

In our occasional series looking at people who have taken a very different career path since moving to France, Gillian Harvey meets happiness coach Nicky Peet , 48, in Nantes

Life of a music agent moves to a different beat

Denis Adam, 34, is a press officer and music agent living in Indre. He is also part of the team that organises the annual Indre reggae festival Issoudun Reggae Temple, which in 2016 takes place between 18 and 20 November

Career

Mentor migrants to success in France

I now sell my art at local French markets

I moved to France and became owner of a reclamation and salvage yard

Installing a natural pool at French home led to a new job

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