Voluntary Professional Retraining: From a Professional Junction to a Personal One

This article examines the biographical change of direction based on a corpus of about sixty life stories of people undergoing professional reorientation. The professional retraining is regarded as a situation chosen by the individual & shows fissures in the biographical course marked by changes in the professional environments, divorce, a break in the relational sphere & a loss of oneself. The thesis supported in the present article is that the events can be interpreted only in the light of one particular biography, inscribed in the interpretation framework of the variable geometry defined by contextual objective conditions. The events occur & start the reinterpretation of the meaning in an already defined direction. The sense seems always revisable & contingent upon the evaluation of significant others, who support or even trigger off the voluntary professional retraining. References. Adapted from the source document.