u/Any-Sea264

I’m an extremely future-oriented person and have chose to go into war mode for all my years in my 20s in order to build a lifestyle I wanted, because I can’t accept it to be otherwise.

I won’t mention details for privacy reasons but here’s an overview:

My goal was extraordinarily ambitious in relation to my background. It doesn’t really allow any failing milestone, otherwise the plan would shatter apart. I was confident that I could manage it, and I did, for most of the part. Two years ago, I had almost had an ideal situation that lasted for a year where I felt I could finally be happy and settle in that. However, due to health reasons, and lack of opportunity to achieve some career ambitions (let’s say, I have 5 things I really want to be doing in life, I had 4 of them going, but 1 was not available to me under that circumstance), I decided to completely shift my circumstances to try pursue a path in this goal while taking care of my health.

I’ve given myself two years in this attempt. My health has got better, and I have gained plenty of insights in this particular ambition that I’ve decided it’s not the right thing for me. This has been informative and stopped me from my great anxiety that there’d be a thing in my life that I desire but never pursued.

Now, I want to transition back to my life from 2 years ago, but it turned out to be extremely difficult. My experience in the last 2 years helped me grow as a person, but it’s not very appreciated my in career, as it seems to be slightly pivoting away from my previous field. I can’t stop thinking that I might have fxxked up. If I had stayed in that previous track, I would have reached career growth and would have had two happy years instead of two painful one. I’m still trying to achieve it, but I don’t know how to deal with the risk of never being able to be there.

I’ve sacrificed time with my family and emotional happiness, and invested financial resources in the last 8 years to build a lifestyle for the future. The clock is ticking, as now it’s the time I had planned for the goal to be realized and it should finally pay off my emotional debt to all that investment.

This is a moment of extreme anxiety for me. Any ENTJ who had this experience and come out of it - what is your hindsight?

Hi everyone, I know it’s a Monday and we’re all tired but I could really use some of your help! And I promise I will update this thread to provide information for future applicants.

I’m in the process of preparing the material to send to ANEF for a favorable decision. I have almost everything else, but struggle to get letters of intention to collaborate.

I plan to work in architecture / design consulting services. Have previous internship + work experience in France for a year and a bunch of recommendations. However, the offices I reached out to are not willing to provide a letter of intention in advance of any projects in sight. I can get one or two letters from private clients for very small renovation projects, but I’m not sure if this is sufficient.

Could you please share with me your experience? I’m trying to determine how hard I should push to get these letters. If they’re so necessary, I need to push more with the offices and some bridges might be burned if they don’t perceive it well.

Another question is the bank deposit. How much is considered enough in saving? I will have a letter to prove that my friend will host me including food. Would 5000 EUR be enough to prove that I could sustain my living in a year? Or is it a strict minimum to have a year of SMIC which would be over 20’000 EUR in saving.

I also have a part-time job in Switzerland that can be continued remotely when I live in France. It’s very flexible and can pay me roughly the SMIC per month for 2 days or work in a week. And the rest of the time I could still work as a freelance in France. Would this be considered favorable or rather alarming that I work for another country?

I’m applying as a resident in Switzerland. I will apply through the ambassador in Geneva if this makes any difference.

I have everything else ready: CV, degrees, portfolio, letters of recommendation, business plan, French B1 certificate.