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Hello travel friends!

I'm a late bloomer when it comes to traveling, but last summer I knocked off my first 4 countries! 

I just recently found out I was accepted for a job in Switzerland! My job is organizing my Swiss work visa (for 5 months), and I have been doing some research about European travel visas. Since I will be staying in Europe for >90 days, I have some questions about how visas work. 

My plan is to enter France for 6 days on a tourist visa (doesn't require documentation for up to 90 days), then enter Switzerland with my Swiss work visa. For the next 150 days, I will work in Switzerland, and want to travel to various European countries for a few days at a time. Then when my work is done, and the work visa is no longer valid, I want to continue to travel in Europe for another 60 days. 

I am assuming that 90 days after entering France my tourist visa runs out. But since I will have been on a work visa for 84 of those days, does the tourist visa go on hold/re-set? What happens if I want to travel from Switzerland on my days off before/after the 90 days. And how does the Schengen Area factor into all of this?

Does anyone have any experience in a situation like this? Or do you know who to contact (Canadian embassy in some European country? Swiss embassy in Canada, some other organization?)? Any guidance would be helpful! My googling skills aren't finding me anything about combing work & travel visas for >90days!
<bot>: I am in Europe for 7 months. I have a Work Visa for 5 months. How do Travel Visas work if I want to enter various other countries during that time? What organization do I contact with further questions?