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This analysis is part of a wider qualitative research on the possible links between school dropout and social dropout among youth with behavioral disorders. From the initial sample selected from two school for troubled youth from the Montreal School Board, two subgroups were formed from those accumulating severe behavioral problems and those whose problems are less important. In light of their school and family trajectory, the analysis looks at the vocational aspirations defined by these young people. The results suggest that young people whose problems are less severe are able to formulate vocational aspirations that are realistic, stable, reflecting their underlying interests, and to schedule and update plans accordingly. In contrast, for young people with more severe problems, a social dropout process seems already started, sometimes since childhood, which complicates the identification of realistic, stable et non marginal vocational aspirations.