Of Anglo-Swiss descent, I have lived and worked in France for over 40 years, beginning in southern Brittany and the Vendée, before moving to Burgundy, then Avignon in the south and back again to Burgundy.
My first job in France was as a grape picker in Châteauneuf-du-Pape... if you're going to sign up for a back-breaking job, you deserve to be rewarded with a top-quality appellation wine at the end of the day!
Among other things, I have also worked on luxury hotel-barges, for a hot-air ballooning company, a wine estate in Chablis, as a ski rep in the French Alps, in hotel-barge management, as a free-lance translator and PA for a local house restoration business....