"Tu tens que se sentir útil. É uma trajetória, é uma vida" : sentido do trabalho na trajetória profissional dos professores em processo de aposentadoria.

Abstract

This research aimed to understand the factors that influence the development of the activity of teachers in the process of retirement. The participants are professionals from public schools of education, from a city in the Center- Mountainous region located in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, which totaled 8 participants. The research was justified in accordance with the theoretical and methodological assumptions of Psychodynamics of Work, from an adaptation, which has the characteristics of favoring collective speech and listening, putting the work under analysis. With this study, it was possible to verify that, in the process of identity formation of these workers, recognition was one of the essential elements, where it can be verified that the profession transcends the walls of the school, being expressed the social duty of these workers. However, for this to happen, the resignification of the work process was one of the essential points for professional (trans) formation. These people do not recognize themselves as retirees because of the continuity in work activity, in which factors such as feelings of usefulness from the permanence in work, the pleasure and satisfaction in this context, the teaching collective and the remuneration justify the continuity in the paid activity.