THIRTY YEARS: LIFE, READING AND THE WRITTEN WORD WITH RAE

The article is a report on the researcher’s career path and her activities in relation to RAE over the last 30 years. It presents the main works she has published, her interaction with colleagues and the importance of this path. This is a recollection whose aim is to inform and, who knows, to inspire young researchers.

; what I read and the experiences I had were the foundation of my Master's dissertation (Paula, 1998a).
That same year, I started my career as a teacher of General Theory of Administration at Faculdade de Tecnologia (Fatec), which was associated with São Paulo State University (Universidade Estadual Paulista [Unesp]).
When putting together the bibliography for the subjects I was teaching, I systematically explored the pages of RAE, from which I selected such classic texts as: • A teoria da administração é uma ideologia? [Is the theory of administration an ideology?] by Maurício Tragtenberg (1971); • Fordismo, toyotismo e volvismo: os caminhos da indústria em busca do tempo perdido [Fordism, Toyotism and Volvoism: the paths of industry in search of lost time], and Mudança organizacional: uma abordagem preliminar [Organizational change: a preliminary approach], by Thomaz Wood Jr. (1992a, 1992b;

• Controle social nas organizações [Social control in organizations], O poder disciplinar nas organizações formais [Disciplinary power in formal organizations], and As empresas e a transmissão de ideologias
[Companies and the transmission of ideologies], by Fernando Prestes Motta (1979Motta ( , 1981Motta ( , 1992. One of the textbooks I used in the subjects I taught was Introdução à Organização Burocrática [An Introduction to Bureaucratic Organization] (Motta & Bresser-Pereira, 1986), so I can say that Maurício Tragtenberg, Fernando Prestes Motta, Peter Kevin Spink and Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira had great influence on my early career as a researcher and teacher.
In the midst of so much reading, in 1996 I still found the opportunity to write. The a small announcement on the pages of RAE, indicating that the journal was recruiting reviewers, caught my eye, and I volunteered to do this work. The editorial board sent me a book to review entitled "Third age careers: meeting the corporate © RAE | São Paulo | 61(3) | 2021 | 1-9 | e0000-0015 eISSN 2178-938X challenge", by Burnow and Fox (1994). I prepared my review, which resulted in the pleasure of seeing my own work published for the first time in the pages of an academic journal -and I was starting in the prestigious RAE (Paula, 1996)! What I did not suspect at the time was that this would be the beginning of a series of reviews that I would write for the journal: • The End of Work, by Jeremy Rifkin (1996) (Paula, 1998b); • The Corrosion of Character, by Richard Sennett (1999) (Paula, 2000); • Runaway world, by Antony Giddens (2000),  (Paula, 2001b).
These last two are double critical reviews, which were the result of challenges posed by RAE's editorial board. A little later, I would review books by colleagues in the field, such as José Henrique de Faria (2004) (Paula, 2004a), Martin Parker (2002) (Paula, 2004b) and Keinert, Rosa, Meneguzzo (2006) (Paula, 2007 (Caldas, Fachin, & Fischer, 1998, 2001, 2004. My interest in the Organizational Studies field and in critical studies increased a lot during the period, and some of the texts published by RAE helped me with this: • Antropofagia organizacional [Organizational cannibalism] (Wood & Caldas, 1998), which was my first contact with the thinking of Alberto Guerreiro Ramos; • Organizações de simbolismo intensive [Intensively symbolic organizations] , which provided me with references by Guy Debord and other authors who would leave their mark on critical management studies (Mats Alvesson, Gibson Burrel & John Hassard); • Fads and fashions in management (Wood & Caldas, 2000), which introduced me to the notion of managerial fads, which was explored by Eric Abrahamson.
In 2000  In this position, and in partnership with Peter Pelzer, I organized the Theater, Cinema and Organizations Forum (Pelzer & Paula, 2002), with invited articles. I also translated two texts into Portuguese that went to make up this collection (Hölpl, 2002;Pelzer, 2002), something I would do on other occasions (Ford et al., 2003 In 2002, GV-Executivo also appeared for the first time, and is still being published today. As an associate editor of RAE I was also encouraged to help with the publication, using language that was more appropriate for a business audience. I participated as an author in the first issue of the journal, with the text "Globalization questioned", a new review of the book by Milton Santos, Por uma outra globalização [For another globalization] (Paula, 2002b). I also collaborated with the text Entre o desencanto e a rebeldia [Between disenchantment and rebellion], when I addressed the dilemmas of training administrators (Paula, 2003b), and after with a review of the book by Richard Sennett (2003), Respect (Paula, 2003c Administration between managerialism and social management] (Paula, 2005c), which, when approved, was accompanied by a proposal to hold a debate, with Professor Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira (2005) as opposer, and with my rejoinder (Paula, 2005d). This, is, perhaps, one of the most cited articles of my academic career, and it was an honor to have this exchange with Bresser-Pereira, who over the years has held a position that is very similar to the one I was arguing at the time: the fundamental importance of social participation in public management.  (Paula, 2012).
My career continued being linked to RAE because it was thanks to the RAE Classics series, which was organized by Professor Miguel Caldas and that addressed the issue of paradigms in the organization field, that I was able to analyze the influence of Sociological Paradigms and Organizational Analysis (Burrel & Morgan, 1979)  admiration, and to move from being a reader to a co-author, debater and partner. I really hope that not only RAE, but all Brazilian journals will find a way to resist in the face of the new scenario in Brazil for producing scientific articles, as it will be a victory to continue seeing innovation and editorial boldness being perpetuated, as well as seeing texts by talented young researchers become classics, as they develop over time and give us news of their intellectual and academic improvement.