"Framed in the positioning theory, this study examines the construction of labor subjectivities of informal workers. It is interviewed 14 men and 14 women, self-employed workers who work in the streets of the city of Bogotá offering products or services, and that They are not covered by social security. It inquires about the experiences and practices at work, from which the discourses are interpreted as spaces of power in the construction of subjectivity, taking into account macro-discourses as global frameworks and micro-discourses as referents of everyday life. The results are interpreted from the analysis of the discourse and by comparing and contrasting patterns of positioning of the subjects. There are different discourses between men and women that position them as independent, compliant, excluded, appreciated, and discriminated against and an example of what a worker should not be."