This dissertation discusses the impact of interpersonal relationships and activities performed at work in the (re)construction of professional identities, focusing on life story narratives of of Executive Assistants. Therefore, individual interviews were conducted with six secretaries of the Presidency and Vice Presidency of large, small, public and private companies, in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Under an interactional perspective and the narrative theory proposed by Linde (1993), this study investigates how evaluations, chronicles and explanations are used as linguistic features that convey coherence to these Executive Assistants’ career paths. The results indicate the importance of issues such as gender, age and physical appearance for the composition of a secretarial profile, as well as they highlight the discussion of issues such as mandatory academic training for insertion in the secretarial work, autonomy, status, power and social prestige of this profession.