ABSTRACT
This article discusses the relationship between educational and occupational trajectories and the expectations of the Unified Health System workers in Brazil. It is part of a research that recovered these trajectories based on interviews with technical workers from four occupational groups. The analysis of the interviews found that the insertion in the health area is experienced as less erratic when compared to the previous trajectories of these workers, especially for those who experienced uncertainties arising from unstable and precarious insertions. Among the groups studied, those of nursing, mainly, are those who have been building their professional expectations in the same practice field.
KEYWORDS
Staff development; Occupational groups; Health personnel