Ne fait surtout pas ce métier
The most honest welcome a trainee gets.
Le Mot - the original
“Premier jour de stage, première phrase qu'on me sort en salle des profs : "ne fait surtout pas ce métier"”
Sens - the meaning
First day of my internship, the first thing someone says to me in the staff room: 'Whatever you do, don't go into this profession.' The humor is the brutally discouraging welcome to a trainee teacher.
Décryptage - the breakdown
Vocabulary
- un stage - an internship
- une salle des profs - the staff room
- sortir une phrase - to come out with a phrase
- ce métier - this profession
Grammar
- Premier jour de stage is compressed headline style.
- Première phrase creates comic repetition.
- Sortir quelque chose à quelqu'un means to come out with/say something to someone.
- Qu'on me sort is colloquial relative-clause phrasing.
- Ne fait surtout pas means 'whatever you do, don't do'; surtout intensifies the imperative warning.
Slang & style
- Qu'on me sort is informal, spoken French.
Cultural context
- A brutally honest welcome to a trainee teacher - a running joke about the teaching profession in France.
Why it's funny
- The humor is the brutally discouraging welcome to a trainee teacher.
À retenir - takeaways
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Quick practice
Quick practice
How do you say 'the staff room'?