He was called to do his military service in the Navy and after his demobilization worked in tobacco at Ets Azoulay then at Job, first as a mechanic and later Machine driver.

His fledging in the art were those received by the master Mustapha Nador with whom he worked for a time relatively short on tenor banjo.

During the same period in 1932–33, Bouchiba managed two coffees: one in Belachère street at the "Souikia" of Hadj Slimane and the other "El Koudia" in association with Kehioudi and other well-known figure of Algiers Hadj Brahim who himself had some time managed the café de la Pêcherie, a much preferred place by secure customers.

In these same years, Hadj Bouchida had climbed the echelons in his profession, he became very sought and found thanks to his serious and regular work.

On January 5, 1957, at 19 o'clock Bouchiba fall under the bullets of La Main Rouge a colonial secret organization.