Profissionais técnicos e a opção de carreira pelo empreendedorismo: um estudo exploratório

Abstract

O presente estudo busca entender como profissionais técnicos, cuja opção inicial de carreira não era o empreendedorismo, efetuaram uma transição ao longo do tempo e se tornaram empreendedores. A pesquisa é de caráter qualitativo e exploratório, utilizando-se o método de investigação de Estória de Vida, por meio de entrevistas em profundidade com três empreendedores com formação universitária em cursos técnico-científicos. Identificaram-se experiências durante toda a vida do indivíduo capazes de desenvolver características e conhecimentos inerentes a um empreendedor, e que ao longo de suas carreiras pressionaram uma mudança de suas escolhas profissionais iniciais.

The present study search to understand how professionals graduated in technical-scientific courses, which initial career choice was thus not entrepreneurship, were instead taken to this transition along time and became entrepreneurs. The present study starts from the principle that a career choice is not the result of only one but of a complex whole of experience, that are related to each other during all the development of individual’s life. This research has a qualitative and exploratory character, making use of Story of Life method, through deep interviews with three entrepreneurs undergraduate in technical-scientific courses. Experiences along all the individual's life have been identified. These experiences were able to develop entrepreneur’s characteristics and knowledge on them, and that during their lives made pressure for a change on their initial career choices. These experiences were related within five groups of influence: familiar, personal, academic and professional, moment of transition and motivations.