In this paper we aimed at analyzing, from the perspective of workers themselves and under the methodological approach of qualitative research, the meanings of readjustment in the lives of professors at a public university. Eight readapted professors with stable relationship with the university and two others from Application School have participated in this study. As for the discussion of the material, we have chosen the method of discourse analysis, aiming to interpret from their own speech and experience, how the professors deal with the fact that they are readjusted. The main categories of empirical results from the speech analyzes were: "You have to catch up with your papers to be published and teach and prepare lessons, as well" "The readjustment was favorable to my health condition just because I've quit classes", "There is chronic lack of professors here", "The worst in the process of readjustment is the treatment you receive from colleagues", "In central expertise you are very badly treated". It was concluded that the functional readjustment is a process generated by collective work conditions, for example, the overhead of classes, which requires the need for collective character of institutional interventions to promote healthier working environments.
readjustment to work; teaching; health worker; classroom; medical expertise