Lyon Side Hustles for Students: Where to Scrape Euros While Pretending to Adult
look, i’m not gonna lie-lyon’s student job scene is like a baguette left in the rain: kinda soggy but salvageable if you know where to bite. rent here’ll gut you (think 600€ for a closet that smells like regret and *saucisson), but hey, at least unemployment’s only 7.8% for under-25s. not terrible for a city where the sky right now looks like god spilled his latte and forgot to wipe it up.
here’s the deal: Vieux Lyon cafes pay peanuts but let you pocket croissants. i worked at Le Kitchen Café last summer and learned two things: 1) tourists tip like they’re cosplaying billionaires, and 2) old french men WILL argue about espresso foam thickness.
> "bartending at Ninkasi Gerland? easy money, but prepare to wash pint glasses until your hands smell like hop-adjacent sadness." - some guy at Perrache station
need flexible hours? check Lyon-Jobs subreddit for last-minute gigs. walked dogs for a crypto bro in La Part-Dieu once-dude paid me in bitcoin and unsolicited life advice. 10/10 would ignore again.
overheard at Les Halles de Lyon Paul Bocuse:
> "english tutoring pays 20€/hr if you lean hard into the ‘awkshually’ accent."*
pro tip: geneva’s a 2h train ride when you need richer ~~victims~~ clients, and marseille’s where lyon students go to beach-bum between existential crises. save your metro tickets-TCL’s fines are legendary and so are the inspectors’ ninja skills.
final verdict? lyon’s like dating a hot mess-frustrating, occasionally profitable, and full of confusing cheese-based metaphors.
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