Sadiki College
Born in May 1889 in Tunis to a bourgeois family, he studied at Sadiki College that he left after the brutal death of his father. Thanks to his paternal friend Abdeljelil Zaouche, he worked in his flour mill and obtained a diploma as a chartered accountant, which opened the doors of the Tunisian Trade Union, the first specifically Tunisian economic organization, founded by Djerbian traders in 1912 on the initiative of Zaouche. It is within this company that he gradually climbs the ladder: from simple accountant, he eventually became co-director in 1917. The young Chenik reveals a manager "serious and competent" and quickly acquires the esteem and the trust of its agents. Thus, in 1919, he was sent to Europe, visited Germany and France, and moved to Marseille, where he sold Tunisian products and bought colonial products; he was particularly familiar with import-export problems and stock market transactions.