This research concerns the life of a young man named Sisyphus, who got his first job through a public policy of the municipality of Maracanaú, state of Ceará. This study focuses on the movement of Personal Identity in the situation of young first-insertion, basing on the Historical-Cultural Psychology of Mind and Social Psychology Review. It was also discussed youth and social exclusion process. It was defined a qualitative methodology with analysis of content. Qualitative methodology was used by targeted interviews in three separate stages with an interval of two months and subsequent thematic analysis. From his reports, it is possible to understand that Working facilitates the Identity movement in the direction of the Personal Value and Personal Power, in a complex and nonlinear way, nourished by the contradictions of the reality in which he lives.
youth; professional insertion; identity