CERTIFICATES – After trying vocational training, finally feeling useful, they retraced their steps. After disappointments, they want to go back to their routine, their salary and the comfort of their life.
Two years ago Jeremy, 39, quit his job as a key account engineer to become a cabinetmaker. He, who until now was “stuck behind a screen all day”, is attracted by the idea of switching from office life to working with his hands. “The satisfaction of seeing the fruit of his work is right before his eyes, for example building a staircase for a couple or furniture for a restaurant… All this attracted me,” he explains. His training completed, he found work in central France. After a few months, which he compares to a “honeymoon where everything is beautiful,” he becomes disillusioned. Too much work, less time for hobbies, less money too. He returned to La Défense last May. “Today everything should make sense. his hobbies, work, everything. But in the end, if performance becomes something imposed by society, isn’t that the snake biting its own tail? If I’m happier…
Source: Le Figaro
