How can I cover up my study gap and ensure a bright future?

This is the problem we identify with the situation instead of knowing the source of problem.

Alibaba founder Jack Ma is one of the richest people in the world, with a net worth of over $36 billion according to Forbes. But there was a time when he couldn't even get a job at Kentucky Fried Chicken.

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The early rejection taught him an important business lesson: "You have to get used to failure," he says, speaking at the University of Nairobi.

After college, Ma applied for 30 jobs in his home city of Hangzhou, China. He was rejected from every one.

At KFC, 24 people applied for the job, says Ma, and while 23 were hired — he wasn't one of them.

The same thing happened when he tried to be a cop. This time four of five applicants were hired, all except Ma.

Another time Ma lost out on a job to his own blood.

"My cousin and I waited for two hours [in a] long queue to be the waiter for the four star hotel in my city, on a very hot day," he says. "My cousin's score was much lower than mine, [but] he was accepted and I was rejected!"

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Ma was even turned down by Harvard 10 times, he tells Charlie Rose in 2015.

"I told myself someday I should go teach there maybe," he laughs.

Although he can joke about it now, Ma says the continued rejection was painful. But it prepared him for his entrepreneurial future.

"If you can not get used to failure — just like a boxer — if you can't get used to [being] hit, how can you win?" he says to the audience in Nairobi.

The fortitude came in handy when he founded Chinese e-commerce site Alibaba in 1999. In the beginning, Ma heard "no" a lot.

"I remember year 2001, we went to raise some $5 million from venture capitalists in the USA and got rejected," Ma tells Rose. Despite the setback, he didn't stop. "I said we [will] come back raising a little bit more."

Perhaps those VCs regret their decisions. Today, the company has a market cap of about $400 billion. When it went public 2014, it was the largest initial public offering ever.

Ma says he now passes around case studies about failure to colleagues at Alibaba, instead of reinforcing success.

"When you read too many successful stories, people go crazy," he says during his talk in Nairobi. "They think 'I can be successful.'"
But the truth is, says Ma, "When you share a lot of failure stories, you learn."
So till the age of 30 he was nothing but a failure.
So, at the age of 31, Ma started his first internet company called “China Yellow Pages.” The company made around $800,000 in the three years it was in business.

And now the rest is history.
So the problem is not about the success or failure or filling the gap.
If you worry about gap, what will you do if there an other gap.

It is about the journey.
See say for example, you want to be a body builder, what gives you more happiness. Off course, the day you won.
But what about everyday when you wake up to prepare, excercise, eat and work out.

See this is what we are supposed to be in. In the journey, the zone where we are always looking out for something.
Then you will not have time to feel sorrow.
See for example, suddenly imagine you and your best buddies plan to go for 1 month trip. Got that feel.

I know life will be normal after the trip.
But what about the time during the trip.
So coming to your question, you are not enjoying your current journey, so choose a journey what you want.

It's hard to believe because its simple.
But yes, in case you need to make a drastic changem, then do it.
don't worry about failure or consequences.

If it was not Jack Ma, someone else would have been there, done that.
So if its not you, someone else would be there and take that.
So only thing what you can do give your self maximum chances to be there done that.

FAILURE is not a big deal. I mean you are saying like this. what if suddenly after you read this answer, the entire world is nuked. Got it.
Don’t think about the gap. Not being negative but just saying the big picture. Get it.

If you are in this kind of a journey then you will know when to take a gap and gap will not dictate your life. In fact, nothing will bother, neither failure nor success.

You will beyond success & failure.

Can a UPSC aspirant achieve his dream in future after settling himself and his family according to family situation while working in other jobs?

See first you have to understand the motivation to be a UPSC aspirant.

If your reason is right, you will achieve it.

Even if you dont achieve something, if you put your effort, trust me you will not feel you lost.

You will find a way.

Hope you understand what i meant.

See its like this, you want to be a IAS officer to change the society. Trust me its not easy in India.

You know the type of people who become ministers and order IAS officers. Exceptions are there but most ministers, i have my doubts.

Its like your better off becoming a entrepreneur and become rich, become popular and you never know, win elections and become a minister who will order IAS officers.

Being a entrepreneur is far easier, all you need is a good friend or you yourself is enough.

In fact, even if you fail UPSC, the knowledge you would have gained is enough to teach and create 100 IAS officers.

If you do do become IAS officer but if you are not allowed to perform, what can you do?

So its about clarity, reason should be not red lights, social status or just your own ego massage. Even desire to be a UPSC is wrong.

Yes, its good to be a IAS but trust me its nothing if you have clarity.

Ask people who have quit IAS, i mean there are people for whom being IAS is the ultimate. But then every year people quit civil service.

Also truth is, there is atleast one IAS officer killed every year in India.

Do you know about IAS officer Ravi.

They say he committed suicide but the entire district of kolar in Karnataka went on strike alleging he was killed.

He was found hanging in his apartment, with his shirt tucked, hanging knot on right side, driver missing on his day of death.
Officer Manjunath was killed because he exposed petroleum-oil mafia who used to adulterate fuel.

Others include DM Mukesh Pandey, Satyendra Dubey, Narendra Kumar etc.

Occupational hazard is one thing but tell how many CEOs are allegedly dead under mysterious circumstances ever year.

While most IAS officers are transferred regularly.

I have seen them run from pillar to post for their salaries to get credited during transfer.

But then i have also seen IAS officers least bothered about these problems, they are somehow contributing to society by the power they have or by their own efforts, because their motivation to become IAS is beyond everything an IAS tag can offer them.

They contribute to IAS, they do not need IAS designation or power. They would have still done what they wanted.

In fact being entrepreneur or minister or local MLA is easy. Yoy just need to be excellant or at least an interesting orator who can people interested for at least 10 min.

Trust me practice public speaking, for few months or few years.

Imagine if you are able to speak in front of people without any fear and sway them your way.

I mean i feel becoming a public speaker is far easy or requires less effort and luck compared to preparation, luck and sheer hardwork to become a IAS.

So, like this have immense clarity.

As APJ Abdul Kalam, goal should not scare it should wake you up raring to go every morning. Simple as that.

Automatically you will manage everything. You will always have time for things you love.

No one in the world is so busy that they cant manage things. Its always about priorities.