We often hear that missing your bac is compromising your future. However, we can very well build a fulfilling professional life without following a classic school career. Testimonies.
“Without Bac, your professional future is damn!” How many young people have heard this sentence, launched by a parent, a teacher, a loved one? A ready -made idea that continues to circulate, tenacious, as an absolute truth. However, we can completely build a career, even fulfilling, without having the baccalaureate diploma in pocket. So certainly, it is not necessarily easy to hear when you are 17 years old and you make white copy to the bac. Nor when you look at others move forward at university. But there are other paths, other ways to succeed and find your way.
Marine, 33, knows it better than anyone. In 2010, she passed her bac ST2S, health and social sciences (today sciences and technologies of health and social) in a public high school near Nancy. That year, she permanently doubts her, her academic results are average in certain subjects. “When I did not see my name on the list of admitted to the bac, I immediately thought of the reaction of my parents, especially that of my father. For him, missing an exam was unthinkable”, she confides to us before admitting: “I think I passed the tests in principle. I already knew that I wanted to become a nursing assistant, and the bac was not compulsory for the competition.” It is therefore this path that she followed. “For me, I have not missed my life. On the contrary, I find that I go out super well without a bac. I have always found work, and today, I even became the owner for the second time. Like what …”
And it is not the only one to have an atypical course. Anne, 58, too, failed in the bac. In the time, in the 80s, many training courses remained accessible without this diploma. She has undergone training to become a medico-psychological help (AMP). For 30 years, she has worked in medico-social with disabled adults and has been fulfilled in what she does. “My work gives me the feeling of being useful. The conditions are not always easy in the medico-social, but I like what I do. I help people who really need it. It is a job where we move a lot, with offbeat times, but that suits me, I found a job that makes sense for me”, she said.
As for Damien, 35, he never really excelled in school. Not getting the precious sesame was not a surprise for him, but that did not prevent him from getting a job. Only problem, he quickly realizes that it is not made to comply with the requirements of a hierarchy. It was then that he decided to launch his own business in personal service. “”In life, you have to be resourceful, dare to get started and not be afraid of the next day. I believe it is sometimes much more than a diploma or long studies“, Says the young man.
