This article aims at presenting some aspects of the path taken as a professor and researcher in Social Sciences. Some of the conditioning topics considered as the most relevant to the orientation’s choice are highlighted here, besides deadlocks and alternatives practiced along the path. Among such conditioning aspects some should be highlighted. First of all, relatively low and peripheral social background regarding the social category of the destination, besides predispositions and limits when entering the marketplace and their effects in the schooling path. Secondly, the relations of such schooling path with the professional path as well as the principles and hierarchical structure of Social Sciences in Brazil in recent years. Finally, the limits and contradictions of professionalization and career, particularly referring to the nonexistence of any educational and professional autonomy regarding what is usually called “politics” in Brazil.