I was thionking of staying in France untill i get enrolled in French Foreign Legion...how do i support myself?

while i am in Paris? i am 21...got no college degree...

like will i be able to find some jobs as a student if i enroll in some cheap colleges?

While most of the Legion's commissioned officers are French, approximately 10% of them are former Legionnaires who have risen through the ranks. The rest of the Legion is made up of men from a wide variety of nationalities, with French citizens representing 35% of the Legionnaires. The foreign volunteers are primarily European. Before and during World War II, many Jews from Eastern Europe fled to France and ended up enlisting in the Legion. Ironically, after the fall of the Third Reich, Germans (long a major presence in the legion) accounted for roughly sixty percent of the manpower,[citation needed] with many former German troops coming directly from World War II POW camps (Bernard B. Fall, a leading expert on French Indochina and author of Street without Joy and Hell in a Very Small Place, disputes this figure and claims that at most, Germans only made up thirty-five percent of the Legion in the post-WWII period). The book Devil's Guard relates a former Waffen-SS member's brutal, fictionalized account of joining the Legion and fighting with fellow former SS against the Vietminh in Indochina. During the mid-1980s, the Legion contained large contingents of British and Serbian nationals. The present day has seen an increasing number of recruits from African and Balkan countries.

The Legion's ranks historically were filled with enlistees from countries which were undergoing some sort of crisis. While no serious studies were made of the motives for enlistment, it seems likely that many recruits were simply transient foreigners who found themselves in France and out of work. In recent generations, however, many of those joining have come from middle-class backgrounds in stable prosperous countries such as Britain and the US (and indeed France itself). During the late 1980s, the Legion saw a massive intake of former UK soldiers who had left the British Army following its restructuring. At one point, the famous 2eme REP had a large number of British citizens amongst the ranks, which resulted in the standing joke of the unit being called 2eme PARA, in reference to the 2nd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment of the British Army.

Legionnaires can choose to enlist under a pseudonym ("declared identity") and a declared citizenship. This disposition exists in order to allow people who want to start their lives over to enlist. French citizens can enlist under a declared, fictitious, foreign citizenship (generally, a francophone one, often that of Belgium or Monaco). After one year's service, Legionnaires can regularize their situation under their true identity.

In the past, the Legion had a reputation for attracting criminals on the run and would-be mercenaries. In recent years, however, admission has been restricted much more severely, and background checks are done on all applicants. Generally speaking, convicted felons are prohibited from joining the service.

After serving in the Legion for a certain period of time, a legionnaire may apply for French citizenship. A legionnaire of foreign nationality can ask for French nationality after three years service. He must be serving under his real name and no longer have problems with the authorities, and he must have served with 鈥渉onour and fidelity鈥?for at least three years. French nationality cannot be granted under declared identity. Furthermore, a soldier who becomes injured during a battle for France can apply for French citizenship under a provision known as 鈥淔ran莽ais par le sang vers茅鈥?(鈥滷rench by spilled blood鈥?.

I'm not sure what your citzenship is however if you plan to go to France, initially it would have to be as a visitor unless you are going to be a student there, in which case you would have to apply for a student visa. Visit the following websites for further information in relation to your situation:

http://www.info-france-usa.org/visitingf...

http://www.info-france-usa.org/visitingf...

http://www.studyabroadtimes.com/en/visa....

Visiting a French consulate in your area is definitely the place to start finding out what you need to do. You may be able to work while being a student however every country has different regulations. For example in the US, while here on a student visa, you can't work until your second year in college and it has to be on campus employment. So check into the requirments. In order to even visit another country, you generally need to prove that you will be able to support your self while there. Do your research.

Good luck to you.

You Live In France??
Lucky-Butt!
Get a Job I guess......

Sorry if your Amercan you have to have a work permit to work in France. If you hold a carte de r茅sident in France you can work. But if you hold a carte de r茅sident sejour. you have to apply for permission to work

you can always wash dishes.