Japan Rearing a Nation of Civil Servants

I dont even know what civil servants do. Here in Russia there is either no such profession, or it called somehow totally different, and ppl working in it are very few. Even the wiki page doesnt clearly say (I looked into at least few paragraphs) what the fuck are civil servants actually do? Are they that useless?

Cooks over doctors? I though Japan was all about doing high-stress businessman/engineering/science jobs, which is why their education system is so freaking hardcore...

Please don't end up like America..
>w<

Ah well, I class #5.

COOK!

Actually coming from an Asian background this isn't very suprising. Civil servents are seen as one of the most stable and secure jobs available. It's not the highest paying but certainly most stable. Although not impossible, but when was the last time you heard a bunch of civil servants made redundant?

Mangaka is not in there?!

Well, Japan is fucked.

But civil servants are badly payed :O

Im glad Im an engineer. Now I can afford eating cup noodles.

Madness is all I can say a good Lawyer or Doctor makes 10x more then a civil servant.
Also who wouldn't want their kid to be a scientist It's only the coolest job ever.
Hello can you say Large Hadron Collider anyone?
No wonder the suicide rate is so high in Japan if my parents pushed me to be a paper pusher instead of going in to engineering I probably would have killed my self too.
That or go postal.

civil servant...LOL, hikikomory or otaku must be the first!!!

I can see why though.
The public service is easy to get into, stable and the pay is good enough that you can live on it in relative comfort.
It's the same thing that's happening in Australia if you can get into the public service build up experience and become a contractor you can make a very good living.
This is speaking strictly for the IT industry though.
Except in our case the government want more people doing trades...

I think the results are more or less typical of Asian countries, though civil servants won't always be top like in Japan, it'll still be among the top 10.

Asian parents pretty much expect their kids to "study hard, get a stable job that pays well (adverturism not encouraged), and feed us well when we retire".

14. “Elite salaryman”

Sounds... elite

How is it more parents would rather have their daughters be nurses than actual doctors?

so they wouldn't be proud of me if i worked as a sex slave i~i...

I miss read #9 as Artefact

where is the source?

THIS IS MADNESS!

Yeah, Japanese kids pretty much have no imagination or hope for the future. You ask girls in school what they dream of becoming, they say "housewife"... boys anywhere else would say "fireman" or "astronaut", but in Japan they'll say "salaryman"... it's incredibly depressing.

I think it's because the parental generation was raised by people who believed that it's justifiable to invade other countries if your country ordered you to do it. Because that's the order of the universe. You<government, government = group. And it would've worked too, since Japan didn't rely on heavily talented individuals, but groups of individuals filtered through tests and other stuff so you only have the elite at the top, telling other people what to do for as long as it's possible until Gekikujou.

I dunno. It's pretty entrenched deep in Japanese culture, so the mentality goes like: "Why not just be a civil servant?" because in a way, as long as you're Japanese, anything you do represents Japan, ergo its government.

or something.

Well I may say that the same kind of thinking applies here at my country as well.

I'm sad that hikikomori isn't on there. ;_;

wtf is 1337 Salaryman?

What? No giant robot pilot? I'm shocked! Or are people not allowed to do that once they're past 20?

Parents who want their sons to become civil servants and engineers shouldn't be surprised when their sons can't find a wife. According to the previous poll, Top 10 Professions Japanese Women Most Want to Date, civil servant ranks #9. Engineers don't even make the list.

“Elite salaryman” sounds like "designer toilet cushion".

Manga Artist, Animator, Animation Director, Creative Director, Editor...

No more Anime/Manga in the long run.

The civil service in Japan is pretty cushy if you can get in. Parents are probably thinking that a child on that kind of pay will look after them in their old age.
Also I can't believe my profession beats a doctor, sweet!

Elite Salaryman appears!

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Flee <----

Meh, my parents never really cared what job I'm in. I'm a game designer (for schools only) and they didnt really even talk about it much because every month I give them some money.. lol

Why ain't mecha pilot on the list?

I recall reading that Japan's national debt currently stand at 105% of their GDP and servicing that debt is costing 5% of the GDP anally. At some point the Japanese government is going to have to address that colossal debt and that will involve massive cut backs in public sector spending. For that reason civil servant doesn't look like the stable career it once was.

I have to say that I'll enjoy greatly seeing these so call civil servants being forced into the private sector where they'll have to do some productive work.

What kind of parents hope their son will become a nurse?

They gotta be kidding, this survey has lost all credibility.

Sauce on the girl? She's cute!