youOnce we get back into the office routine, we sometimes feel like a tomato plant in need of photosynthesis. What we miss, however vaguely, is not so much the idleness and the four o’clock dew as the contact with nature, that feeling of being part of a vibrant whole that air-conditioned worlds sometimes make it difficult to experience. So we like to dream and tell ourselves that we would like to go into horticulture or goat farming. But, for fear of giving up our comfortable permanent contract, we end up redirecting our worries towards the canteen (in any case, it’s too short to expect a parsnip to grow between now and 12:45).
Life in the tertiary sector is based on a cardinal abstraction of the relationship with subsistence: while we work to earn a living (metaphorically, of course), we delegate to others the care of the concrete means that allow us to keep our physiological variables afloat. This distribution of tasks is currently being questioned by a certain number of young workers. They want both the 11am video (to find out which wallpaper Martin chose) and the 5pm video of picking courgettes (because it’s good to know what you’re eating: “Tonight, organic ratatouille!”).
A site launched in 2024, which lists and encourages this type of experience, has found a charming terminology to describe these emerging profiles: “slasher-pickers”. A reference to our hunter-gatherer and cutter ancestors, who performed several professional activities at the same time. Lovers of hybrid planning, slasher-pickers have the particularity of having one foot in the field and the other in the tertiary sector. He is a market gardener/banker; winemaker/strategy consultant; breeder/independent editor…
Chicken breeder and web editor.
As he recently explained to ParisianIt was when observing that many farmers have a parallel activity that Julien Maudet, a young polytechnic graduate who works as a consultant and spends part of his week on a cider factory project, had the idea, with Nicolas Baleynaud and Lola Dubois, of encouraging the opposite approach by launching the Slasheurs-cueilleurs.fr website. The objective: to help workers in the tertiary sector to get started in an agricultural activity by offering them resources (training suggestions, designing a hybrid professional project, etc.) and by highlighting the experience of those who have tried it.
Like Cécile Cardeillac, a breeder of laying hens in the Gers and a web editor who works remotely. Is your website down? Trust me with your content writing! (Guaranteed without typos) »suggests, with humor, about their LinkedIn profile. In this case, the service activity helps to cushion the impacts inherent to livestock farming, such as when bird flu hits cattle, and to moderate an agricultural activity that is sometimes hard and unpaid. As for the 600 layers, they require care that invites us to put into perspective the artificial emergencies of our digital worlds: “They are the living”Cécile testifies, as if summing up a need to re-anchor oneself.
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