Last week, the National Civil Service Examination was over. Many people around me applied to take that examination. They talked about the interview with smiles and confidence. After all, our department is designed to help people enter the public sector. We have many law lectures and other lectures tend to have a macro perspective.
In fact, I want to enter the government as well. Compared to working in a big company with a high salary, I have a desire to serve the nation with a comparable low salary. Maybe it is the influence from my mother’s family. Since hundreds of years ago, many people from her family entered the government or joined the army. For example, my grandfather fought in the Korean War (on the North side), and I heard a lot of stories from him when I was young.
However, even though I have many relatives who are in the Communist Party, I don’t have any interest in their values. What is worse, I lost my identity and trust of my motherland. I was recommended to join the party once when I was in college. When I graduated, National Security contacted my mother to invite me to their recruiting event, which shocked me at that time. Still, I gave up everything and came to Japan.
I was seriously thinking about the possibility of joining the Japan Self-Defense Forces when I was in high school. In college, I thought of every possible way to find a public servant type job in the future like working at the Bank of Japan. Eventually, I realized that unless I have Japanese citizenship, it’s almost impossible for me to enter the government.
Fortunately, I still have a chance. There is a system called mid-career recruitment. The center government recruits a small number of people through this system every year. Only if I still keep learning and improving my professional skills, will I still be competitive in my 30s. All I have to do is keep treating life seriously and waiting for possible citizenship.