Job satisfaction outweighs fat pay for IAS toppers

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Job satisfaction seems to be the latest buzz for young UPSC exam toppers of Delhi.

Be it Supreet Singh Gulati, the second ranker in the UPSC examination or Ashima Jain, the seventh ranker, pay packets come after a career that guarantees satisfaction.

Both the toppers were working with multi-national companies and earning decent sums before the determination to “work for a better cause” overtook them.

Till 2004, Supreet Singh Gulati, 27, from Vasant Kunj, was working with an MNC in Noida. After finishing his schooling from Patiala, he shifted to Chennai to do his engineering at IIT, Madras and was picked by an MNC during the campus placements.

Ashima, who topped the UPSC exam among women candidates, was earning Rs six lakh per annum at American Express, apart from an opportunity to tour the world.

She left her job, refused a UGC Net scholarship and six other job offers during her post graduation in Delhi School of Economics and focused on IAS instead.

“I have experienced the feel of earning good money and the thrill of traveling around the world but nothing could undermine my desire to be an IAS officer,” says Ashima who dedicates her success to her father N K Jain and mother Vineeta Jain.

Says Supreet: “In two years, I realised that I was not happy with my job. Being an IAS officer was always on the back of my mind. One day I made up my mind and resigned.”

Working actively with NGOs during college helped. Supreet says doing something for the down-trodden gives him a sense of satisfaction that the 9-5 job as an engineer did not.

(courtesy  Hamari Jamatia http://www.expressindia.com )

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