At a time when students are preparing to return to their schools on the Saclay plateau, Lyon, or rue d'Ulm, a minority of normaliens, tempted to branch off into the private sector, are faced with a dilemma: to silence their desire to leave or face the hostility of the administration and certain comrades.
For Antoine*, integrating the master's degree in economics from ENS Paris-Saclay was obvious.
“The prep teachers sold us the school like the Holy Grail.
We were told about incredible opportunities without explaining the reality of research to us.”
Today, at 25, he wants to change course and join a private company.
But, during his four years of study, he was paid, as a student civil servant, around 1300 euros per month.
This salary obliges him, in principle, to submit to a "ten-year commitment", in other words to work in the public service six years after his training.
If he decides to “pantoufle”, that is to say to leave the public service, he will be held…
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