About work in geneva

Genève and New York are the two most important center for international cooperation worldwide and it will not be important if you speak French or not as English will be the main language. Offers for jobs have a look here http://www.jobs.ch/fr/suche.php?stichwort=geneve but there are much more sites if you take the time to google by yourself.

And what happens if you don't find a short-term part-time evening job? Do you just have a lot less pocket money? Or do you starve?

From a manager's perspective, hiring people is a time-consuming task--not one they want to undertake every few months. And yet I can't in good conscience suggest you lie to prospective employers about your proposed length of stay (and the end date on your work visa may make that impossible anyway).

If it were me, I'd be looking for that part-time short-term job now in my current situation so I wouldn't need to rely on one in the foreign country I'm planing to visit.

If it really makes a difference between eating and not eating, that's not a risk I'd be wiling to take.

If you haven't yet done any research on the cost of living in Switzerland, be prepared to be unpleasantly surprised. It's high.

As a Swiss myself (leaving in Zurich) I can imagine that it might not that easy to find a temporary job that fast everywhere in Switzerland (if you don't have any connections with friends or family leaving already in Geneva).

I suppose you'll do your volunteer work for one of the big international organisation they have there in Geneva (WHO,UN, RedCross etc.)?

So in my opinion the best way to find something is through the organisation you plan to do your volunteer work, they might have the connections to other workplaces and after all you might not be their first volonteer with this problem....

do you have a work/permit or EU passport?

hi.

sorry for the delay i seem to have killed my computer. Anyhow, i have an eu passport and will volunteer in one of those big ones... i asked about it to other volunteers and it seems they did not wish to have extra work. If i don't find the job i don't think i will starve but i will spend some very uncomfortable months as i know how expensive it is over there, which is why i was thinking about bar work. I have done so for 2-4 months in other countries with no problem what so ever but geneva is different so i don't know how viable it will be which is why i asked so in the first place.
About asking in the organisation, they warn you to make sure you deal with your money problems beforehand and by yourself with past volunteers/interns writing they have not look for a job.

I am saving some money now but i want a comfortable stay and i don't mind working a few extra hours to have it..

Oh and i have a job now i don't think i will get enough money to be comfortable in geneva before i get there which is why i was thinking about getting something there..