Ok I'm bored now...
Things have definitely calmed down now. So much so I'm wondering if I'm still alive. After the frenzy of job-hunting I succeeded in getting 2 jobs, both mentionned in previous posts with Medecins sans Frontieres and the Red Cross. However I have since been informed I'm on a 6-month waiting list for the former, and there'll be nothing until 2010 for the latter... so I feel somewhat deflated.
This has been somewhat compounded by the French civil service. Don't get me wrong, it's a great system, so long as you're French and have never done anything but go to school, followed by getting a job. Having moved around quite consistently I'm now falling through nets... as I always have! Why change the habit of a lifetime, eh? My current position, after 3 months of being told by many people that I'm on file and will soon be receiving my social security card that avoids the need for direct payments, I discovered that nothing of the sort has happened and that I have no rights to health care whatsoever. I have to pay and be reimbursed using my EHIC card. Current expenses since 1st June: over 750 euros, current reimbursments: 0. This wouldn't be such a problem if it wasn't that my EHIC card will soon expire, and not living in the UK I can't renew it. A job will ultimately give me access, but being employed by MSF-UK and ICRC-CH doesn't help as they don't make French contributions. So I'm looking for jobs in France that won't make me want to beat my head in with a mobile phone, but the moment I go off on a mission and then come back, I'll back where I am now. It's a massive fucking pain in the arse!
... Maybe I'll be forced to move back to the UK... we'll see.
This has been somewhat compounded by the French civil service. Don't get me wrong, it's a great system, so long as you're French and have never done anything but go to school, followed by getting a job. Having moved around quite consistently I'm now falling through nets... as I always have! Why change the habit of a lifetime, eh? My current position, after 3 months of being told by many people that I'm on file and will soon be receiving my social security card that avoids the need for direct payments, I discovered that nothing of the sort has happened and that I have no rights to health care whatsoever. I have to pay and be reimbursed using my EHIC card. Current expenses since 1st June: over 750 euros, current reimbursments: 0. This wouldn't be such a problem if it wasn't that my EHIC card will soon expire, and not living in the UK I can't renew it. A job will ultimately give me access, but being employed by MSF-UK and ICRC-CH doesn't help as they don't make French contributions. So I'm looking for jobs in France that won't make me want to beat my head in with a mobile phone, but the moment I go off on a mission and then come back, I'll back where I am now. It's a massive fucking pain in the arse!
... Maybe I'll be forced to move back to the UK... we'll see.