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Since the onset of the health crisis, many French people have decided to retrain professionally. In 2021, more than 20,000 files were financed by the individual retraining system. Cross portraits of a parliamentary assistant who became a cheese maker, and business leaders who now sell brooms.
Going from site machinery rental companies to brush manufacturers: this is the great professional gap chosen by Arnaud and Marie-Laure Gabriel, last January. After repeated burglaries in their former activity, they decided to throw in the towel, in order to relaunch an almost forgotten craft. “A lot of people took us for fools at first, says Arnaud Gabriel. (…) But we believed in it “. With the successive confinements, six out of ten working people are thinking about a professional retraining, or are in the process of doing it. In barely a year, the brooms of La Balaiterie are snapping up in France and around the world. “We earn as much in salary as we earned on the rental of public works equipment “, assures Marie-Laure Gabriel.
Audrey Emery, a former parliamentary collaborator, has become a cheese maker. His salary has been cut in half, but his new life is obvious. “My standard of living, I find it perfectly in line with my current aspirations”, she explains. In 2021, 20,250 retraining requests were funded in France.