Getting into the civil service can help you surpass 95% of people,

Even if your family has no power or influence, being a civil servant is the best path for ordinary people.
Civil servants hold a high social status. In some places, even if you run a business and earn a million,
others still look down on you, while a son-in-law of a civil servant is the dream partner everyone longs for.
When you say "ordinary people," you mean white-collar workers in big cities earning over ten thousand a month.
Civil servants in fifth-tier cities are even higher than that,
not to mention delivery drivers, couriers, service staff, ride-hailing drivers, or screwdrivers.
If there are two people in your hometown,
one is a programmer with an annual salary of 300,000, and the other is a department clerk at the Provincial Party Committee Office,
everyone will envy and respect the person working in the office, regardless of whether they earn 300,000 or 500,000 a year.
By the time you work your way up to a department-level official or local government leader in the office,
they will visit your home to express their regards at the end of the year.
Meanwhile, a programmer might have to go around government offices begging for stamps or documents.
Civil servants are inherently superior to small business owners or those doing ordinary jobs.
Although this statement may seem snobbish, and you might criticize me online,
but when you meet some people in real-life situations,
once someone says they are a civil servant, you will subconsciously have a subtle change in your attitude.