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Like many young people of her generation, Anna, 28, has struggled to find her way. After a brilliant school career, she was confronted from the beginning of her professional career to boredom and the repetition of unnecessary tasks. Difficult to live for this young woman, who aspired first to climb the ladder, but is now in search of meaning. She told her story to Olivier Delacroix, Thursday on Europe 1.
"I was a good student, I did a Bac S because my teachers told me to do it, but I had no idea what I wanted to do later. had to do a prep class, so that's what I did.
I always told myself that I had to make a career, that I have a job, that I make a good living, that my friends and family would be proud of me. It was to say that I existed, that I was recognized professionally and as a person. My parents just told me to do what I liked. By cons, in high school and college, as I was a good student, I had been told that it was absolutely necessary that I go to the prep, the school, to have a great job. It is more in the school environment that this idea of career is anchored in me.
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I had found a job leaving school, and it was a CDI, so the Grail!
After the preparation, I went to college. I had a marketing course that I found nice, so I continued in this direction and got a Master of Marketing. But I did not ask myself more questions than that. There, I entered the world of work. And that was the big disappointment. In four years, I made four boxes. The first job I found was a commercial assistant position. I was happy, I found a job leaving school, and it was a CDI, so the Grail! But after two months, I watched the clock turn every day. It was hell. I thought, 'You can not stay all your life watching the time'. I left on the last day of my probationary period.
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After, I found some CDD. I went to Macon, to Marseille, to Paris. I felt a beginning of lassitude that was coming. I worked in the bank, and I could not express myself so much there were hierarchical strata. I did not feel like blooming. But I thought, 'You're young, you have time. You will be in their place one day. I was about to finish my fixed-term contract at the Bank in Paris, and I began to understand the futility of my work. I will not go through four ways: what I did was create mail and emails, which I sent to people who were not going to read them. We had return rates that were catastrophic.
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After a few months, I again disillusioned
I realized that I did not want to do this job. So I thought I was going somewhere else. As we wanted to renew my CDD, I refused and I said that I wanted to give me the chance to go to another area. There, I found a CDI in the sport, because I am a sportswoman next door. I said to myself: 'Super, that corresponds to my values'. But after a few months, I was disillusioned again. I was writing letters and emails to people who were not going to read them.
Then I clicked. In front of my office, there was a great square with trees. Looking at that, I said to myself, 'But it's not possible, you can not stay locked up all your life, behind a screen for eight hours a day, doing unnecessary things'. Although I was scared, I remembered that I was 27 years old, and that if I did not try to do something different today, when would I do it?
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If I do not climb 15,000 steps, it does not matter, because the goal is to realize me, and not what society wants
I have always dreamed of a career, to be a marketing director. But I remember the marketing directors who spent their weeks in meetings ... I did not envy their lives at all. Today, I would rather want to work in ecology. I have always been sensitive enough. I realized that I did not go often enough to nature. At the same time, I started reading a lot of articles that I found quite alarming about the state of our planet. I thought I needed to do something useful for her.
After negotiating a conventional breakup, I really wondered what I wanted to do in my life. If I do not climb 15,000 steps, it does not matter, because the goal is to realize me, and not what society wants. The career is really a word that I no longer use, which no longer exists in my vocabulary. Finally, I replaced the word 'work' with 'personal realization'. Just that, it calms me, it relieves me. We forget that 'work' means 'torture' in the beginning. We did not come to Earth for that. We do not have to make a career. Today, what I'm looking for is doing something that is in keeping with my values, while making a living. I want to make sense of my life and do something useful. "
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