“I work every day from 9 am to 5 pm. When I come home, I enjoy it. And once the kids are asleep, I start working again, often between 10 pm and midnight, every evening, and a little at the weekend. » For four years, Emeline Busquet, 28, was a management assistant at an automotive expertise company during the day, and carried out administrative tasks for clients, through a micro-enterprise, at night.
“This accumulation is a real sacrifice, but an important one”he continued, believing that even working full time, it is difficult to live with dignity on minimum wage. Her partner stopped working to care for the children because they couldn’t afford the expensive child care costs. “There’s rent money, a car… We don’t spend money, we don’t travel, even though we want to,” he continued.
Emeline Busquet is a “slasheuse”, a term that means she does several jobs at once, separated by a “slash”, or the “/” symbol. This was discovered in 2007 by Marci Alboher, an American essayist, in her best-selling book One Person/Multiple Careers (“One person/multiple careers”, Business Plus, not translated).
Visiting Paris in October for the SME exhibition aimed at independents and VSE managers, he explained that initially “Slashers are people who choose to appear like that in public”proud of the way of life that allows them to do so “utilize other skills, flexibly, alongside their main job”. However, he is aware that currently the number of victims due to wood cutting has increased rapidly, this is due to tensions in purchasing power: “There are more people who are accumulating money out of necessity in this period of economic instability. As the cost of living rises, they are looking to increase sources of income.”
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