Abstract
While the legal framework laid down by the "Avenir professionnel" Act (5 September 2018) suggested more flexibility in the construction of career paths, adults with atypical retraining plans have been plagued by difficulties in their implementation. The process is marked by tensions that slow it down and could jeopardise it. Whether external or internal, these tensions are subsumed, sometimes transformed, even transforming; this project comes so to fruition, even though its prerogatives distance it somewhat from recent legislative proposals. In this way, adults concerned fully exercise their right to choose their professional future.
Keywords: career change, manual job, tension(s), vocational training, work-linked training.