How about becoming a self-made -person

At a time when unemployment reaches hight scores in France, most young people think about being employed. Why not try another way out? You should try and see their faces when they are told many young americans began their own business before theywere 25. As well as canadian students and young pepole in other country...

Well let's not blame people for what they are, because surely building one's own business isn't always an easy game. As for young French, a quick peeck at their background moslty explains a lot. When I asked one of my collegues why he didn't think about having he's own website builing business, he answered me that his parents had jobs and that it was also a kind of security to have a job, and that having a business also means running out of it one day or another. None of the young french i know have a parent that started it's own business.

The french culture isn't a pioneer one. So it doesn't come to evidence to young pepole that building their own business when they can't find a job could be a solution. But if one took a peek at the generations before them, one would notice that many of them have gone abroad and that many also, especially in african counrties, have started and succeeded their own business.

Well then maybe it's the french care policy that leads people to wanting to be employed. When you are employed in France you have many advantages:
-first of all you get free health care from most things except specialists like opticians...and so on.
-second of all you can stop working at any time and get paid for the time you are not at work (wich is the case in many other countries, and a good thing too). and when retirement comes, you get retirement aid.
-If you work for any of the governement administration, well then there will be no way you can ever be out of job. If you don't work well enough you will only be mooved to an other service.
-fourth thing is one must know that when you hire someone in France, it's very difficult to get him fired. That is most of the time impossible. The law is very protective with employees : they can sue their boss for abusive layoff.
Wich is why most companies are very carefull who they take on for a job and before that, they may think twice before taking someone on.Once they hire someone, it's like they are stuck with him.
Well that last point makes it also difficult for young people to find jobs, they are sometimes not taken seriously.But only sometimes.

Anyway, many more advantages makes employyee fell more secure. Only there has to be someone to pay for all that : social cares, retirement aid...Well it will be us futur employee!!! according to the governement to keep the balance between workers and retire people, so that everyone can continue to have social care and other helps... Well we will have to give part of our own salaries to the retired people but also to those who have began to work before we did.

Instead of all these salaries restrictions, I rather have my own business and work for myself in a small structure with one or two person.
The problem is being a boss is very expensive. You have to pay something like twice your employee's salary to the governement for him to let you employ that employee...you get the picture? now try and imagine what it means in a european country like France where life is not that cheap? How much must one pay it's employees so they can earn a normal living... a lot, not to forget one must pay a social care for each of the employees...

Well maybe that's why delocalisation has become a solution for many companies here. and a other big cause of the hight level of unemployment.
well then, one could do liek many French and go abroad, somewhere business is less expensive to run, or one could just work for itself.

Bineta TOURE, Metz, France