Why All Prefer Civil Services Rather Than Private Jobs?
It could get hard, it could mean spending one’s days of youth in the four walls of a library, it could mean failure or it could even mean nothing at all. Still, millions of students prepare for the Indian Civil Services every year and do not give up even after multiple failures and other hardships in life. Some of them give up on lucrative job offers from the biggest corporates of the world, some of them return from foreign countries and happily land up into a world surrounded by books and newspapers to prepare for the Indian Civil Services.
What is it that attracts them? What is it that keeps them going? What is so special about the Civil Services that the aspirants keep working without being affected by the negative aspects of it?
The reasons could be professional, personal or even emotional reasons associated with a desire of contributing to society. Let’s analyse!
- The Preparation: Preparation for the Indian Civil Services may involve a lot of risk but it does prepare you for almost everything in life. You read so much, get to know about so many subjects, and learn to manage your limited time to fit in the ocean-like syllabus in it. The preparation actually makes you an officer with every passing day. It actually grinds and polishes you at the same time.
- X-Factor: Civil servants really have an aura of superheroes! They make and implement policies, discuss and deliberate on the problems of the nation and create their unique solutions. And all this is part of the job. We are sure you must have heard of many IAS and IPS officers for the heroic acts they did as part of their jobs. Or, have you noticed how every other Bollywood movie is about the struggles and success stories of these IAS and IPS officers?
- The Perks: The government really does take care of the needs and facilities to be given to civil servants. You really do not need to worry about any of that. You can focus on work without worrying about other things. The corporate world, although now evolving, usually doesn’t offer most of it.
- You are an Asset: Now everyone is an asset for the society and the nation. But the corporate world, as we hear does treat humans just like means to an end. ‘White-collared slavery’ is a recent phrase that has come into the limelight. The employees run from pillar to post to finish projects on time and yet they always face the risk of being left out due to some new candidate or technical development. A job in the Indian Civil Services, on the other hand, guarantees a work-life balance and respect in the society without giving you the feeling of being exploited. Rather, you enjoy the work and relate to every aspect of society. The future of the nation rests in your hands and you become one of the biggest assets of nation.
The power to create change: Mahatma Gandhi once said: “Be the change you want to see in the world”. As civil servants, you get a lot of power to create better things and make changes to the already existing ones in your cadre. It’s a kind of satisfactory social service act for which you get paid. You learn as you work and your views get more and more respect due to the projects you have already taken in the past. There are many officers who are known for the extraordinary ideas of change they brought to society. Serving in tribal areas, rural areas, working for the deprived sections of society, you get the problem itself demanding the solution from you. You could go on to rise as the topmost bureaucrat of the country and wear the badge of your nation and create the changes you always wanted to. Can there be anyone more important than you?
- Learning never stops: A job in the Indian Civil Services pushes you to grow and learn everyday. There are different departments you get posted to, different projects that you handle which may have nothing to do with what degree you took in college. Hence, you slowly become the jack of all trades and the king of an empire of knowledge and expertise.
- Education and experience: While working in the Indian Civil Services, you can opt for higher education in topmost universities of the world as a representative of the Government of India. Moreover, your postings require you to visit other countries, learn their best techniques and implement them back here. Hence, the growth in your personality, the education and the richness of experiences keeps on climbing up at exponential rates.
- There are actually no failures: Preparation for the Indian Civil Services makes you capable of doing everything. Even if you don’t crack the exam, you can opt for various State Civil Services or other prestigious Central Services. If not, you can start guiding aspirants for civil services and send a brigade of your students to the Indian Civil Services! The teachers always have their own empires! In fact, there are many people who actually gave up on their jobs as civil servants after working for a few years to fulfill their desire to teach. Now, they are one of the biggest entrepreneurs in the Civil Services coaching industry and one of the best guides.
- Satisfaction Private jobs may provide really good monetary benefits or you could turn into one of the best specialists through the private route. But civil services is about the bigger game! It’s about the satisfaction you miss in your life, it’s about your contribution in this short life. And satisfaction comes from service. And here, service is your job!
PS: No matter what you do in life, which career you opt for, it must always involve a sense of duty towards you yourself as an individual, towards your family, towards your society, towards your nation and towards humanity and the planet. The Indian Civil Services is a job that brings with it everything you dreamt of, it creates a path to do all of the above and it requires a great level of dedication, hard work, sacrifice and most importantly, the will to take new challenges every day. You’ll be a very learned and changed person altogether.
Choose wisely! All the best!
