I&#x27;m french, and I even wonder if kickstarter is a decent opportunity for me. I&#x27;m not sure it is in term of finance law.<p>France is pretty protectionist, and labor laws are also pretty tight.<p>Maybe my personality is an issue, and maybe it&#x27;s because I don&#x27;t have a degree nor experience, but as someone who is able to read and write C, C++, java, PHP, when I hear that IT is a booming sector across the globe, I just can&#x27;t believe I&#x27;m still unemployed.<p>If you failed at school but went to programming classes and like programming, if you&#x27;re not part of the top tier class of people who went to an engineering school, or managed to get through university, you&#x27;re not employable.<p>It&#x27;s sad because I always hear that you don&#x27;t need a degree to have a programming job. Well in france it&#x27;s not really the case.<p>Recently I even failed some government funded 1 year school program, where people learned programming (most of them never wrote code). I learned nothing, and the jury was patronizing and condescending for some reason which made me fail and not have this degree.<p>Meanwhile, the pharma company I went to, which is doing molecular research for cancer treatments, was pretty happy about my intership.<p>I guess something might be wrong with my attitude too, but I&#x27;m sure I know why countries like America have more success with IT, it is because they are liberal, and france is clearly not. I like france, but IT here is not so awesome.