In the epilogue of the comic Work and live (Garbuix Books, 2025), French author Fabien Toulmé (Orléans, 1980) recalls his teenage self's conversation with a career counselor who couldn't understand why, despite getting good grades in math and physics, he preferred drawing to engineering. At the time, Toulmé was convinced by the arguments, but later changed professions to pursue what he truly loved: comics. Partly for this reason, Toulmé is now publishing a book, halfway between a sociological essay and a diary, in which he travels to different countries around the world to understand how we relate to work.