Work is not always a chore. However, lately, more and more French people are slamming the door of the company.

According to the Department of Research, Studies and Statistics (Dares), nearly 470,000 employees have left their permanent contracts since the start of 2022. This is 20% more than at the year 2019.

This trend, which has also been observed in the United States for several months, has a name: the “Big Quit”, or “Great resignation”, and it was not born by chance.

Inflation and salaries that are too low, loss of meaning, lack of human contact with teleworking… Office life is no longer a dream.

But some lucky ones would not leave their job for anything in the world, because it allows them, for example, to travel, or even because it offers missions that are to say the least… pleasant.

In our slideshow, discover 5 “dream” jobs that you too could apply for if you are tired of the routine…

In 2019, according to a survey by the Capa agency, 63% of employees say they are bored at work. Among them, nearly 30% of women even described their job as “very boring”.

A year earlier, another study claimed that only 8% of French people were happy to go to work every morning.

The health crisis would have only aggravated this feeling. In 2021, the start-up Factorial stated that 33% of employees in France no longer found “meaning” in their work since the start of the pandemic. 68% of respondents said that their work was also a food necessity long before being a source of pleasure. The observation is clear: the French no longer want to “live to work”, but “to work to live”.

On the other hand, according to a study by the Hotels.com site, 83% of them would not be against the idea of ​​being paid to relax by the pool…