Description: An important indicator on the quality and success of vocational education and training systems are the transition from education and training settings to a permanent labour market placement since an important aim of this system is to reproduce a highly skilled labour force. Even though this transition within many vocations might seem quite smooth when measured with statistical means, a much lager complexity is revealed when it is studied on the subjective level. Through the narratives of individuals describing how they reconstruct their individual trajectory from VET to their present position on the labour market a complex relation between I-VET, C-VET, participation in different work practices and (re)construction of occupational identity reveals itself in the form of both failed biographical forecasts and creative use of competencies. Methodology: The paper will be based on themetised narrative interviews with a sample on individuals who finished their VET in the spring and early summer 1999. Conclusions: The paper is a work-in-progress paper related to a research project on work to school transition we are conducting for the Danish Ministry of Education. The outcome is a deeper understanding of this transition process which will provide a basis for analyses of how VET's might be changed to support this transition more efficiently