Part time work on overseas campsite
My wife and I are considering applying for work on a French campsite next year which provides a free pitch in exchange for part time work.
We'd appreciate any information or tips from people who may have done this type of thing.
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, Did this in 1978 for a company called " Mocamps"at Auxerre.Thoroughly enjoyed it.Helps to improve your language,awareness of the French way
of life,local customs and markets etc etc.We lived in our motorhome on site ,expenses paid for,but you have to support yourself too.Bearing in mind that your property in the U.K is'nt being used ,you can be on a winner.Just make sure the property is covered
by insurance,and someone keeps an eye on it ,cuts the grass etc.Be prepared to handle every day problems,late or eary arrivals,dissgruntelled customers,generous customers,and all the 'joe public 'can throw at you.A life changing and enhancing experience .!!
GO FOR IT .!!
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Friends used to do summers at Camping de Court Vallee in France, and went back year after year. Lots of campsites take on summer time 'staff' but you might be better off working for one of the larger companies, which not only offer you a free pitch, electrcity, etc., but also a wage.
Companies like Canvas Holidays, Eurocamp, Al Fresco holidays all take on temporary workers in the summer, and these days prefer more mature couples to the teenagers they used to employ. (My son was a Canvas Holidays courier twelve years ago). Friends of ours work for a company called HappyCamp and have been doing for years - and they earn a reasonable wage for what they do. All these companies advertise for staff, and I have a feeling there are some adverts in the back of the Caravan Club magazine (though I don't have one with us here in France!).
It's hard work on most sites - even those which only offer you a pitch and electricity. At the moment this would be worth £20 per day, so if there are two of you working just two hours a day, that's only £5 per hour. You also get the 'interesting' jobs usually, such as trimming the hedges, or cleaning the toilets! Make sure you will cope with working in the heat, too - it can get VERY hot in France, even outside of peak season and it's no fun cutting a hedge when it's thirty-seven degrees outside. Splashing a hosepipe around in the toilet block might be more fun in the heat - but only if you're on one of the sites where the guests respect the notice to 'keep the facilities clean'.
There are currently jobs advertised on UKCS so you can check out the sort of thing on offer.
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We stayed at Ruisseau Du Treile In Larnagol in the Lot this year. It has English owners and we were talking to another English couple who were having a trial couple of days there before coming back to work in the high season. She told me that they would
be working two hours a day [both of them] in the morning in return for their pitch. I found someone had written a blog about their experiences as workers there last year and it looked as if they had a fantastic time.0 -
Four hours work a day paid at French minimum wage is what? About 40 euros? But all they give you is a pitch they can't let anyway - value to them nil - and abut 5 euros of electric at most. I have heard of immigrants undercutting legal wages, but that's as a blatant example as any. You would be a mug to clean lavatories at those rates.
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Four hours work a day paid at French minimum wage is what? About 40 euros? But all they give you is a pitch they can't let anyway - value to them nil - and abut 5 euros of electric at most. I have heard of immigrants undercutting legal wages, but that's
as a blatant example as any. You would be a mug to clean lavatories at those rates.Can't really follow your argument, this just seems the same pay as a part time CC warden would get. Not everyone wants to work full time.
It would be ideal for MM, free pitch as well!
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Forget the free pitch - that's worth nothing bcause there are free pitches everywhere in France - French motorhomes stay free everywhere they go.So the job is only OK if the work is paid properly, but LTC said she met people who were doing it for no pay at all - just for the free electricity. , That's madness.
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Forget the free pitch - that's worth nothing bcause there are free pitches everywhere in France - French motorhomes stay free everywhere they go.So the job is only OK if the work is paid properly, but LTC said she met people who were doing it for no pay
at all - just for the free electricity. , That's madness.I admit that I wouldn't do it but they had a caravan so could not access free sites. It meant to them that they got the rest of the day in a lovely area for free when, for all I know, they could not have afforded to go to France for eight weeks or so. Between
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Some friends of ours did some seasonal work on a site in France and said they would not do it again as although most of the "visitors" were alright ,a lot of work was required after some had left because of the way they treated the facilities,and the hours were very long,as the company who owned the chain of sites,did not "understand" the working time directive,or pay much, they thought a "free pitch" was part of the wage
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