In my opinion, if you resign from a civil servant to become an administrator in a university, it is a complete resignation without changing medicine. I don't think it makes any sense, so your regret now is inevitable. If you choose to be a professional technician, university teacher, teacher, associate professor or university professor after resigning from a civil servant, I think it is understandable. It's really hard to understand if you quit your job as a civil servant and go to university to do administration.

First, the nature of work has not fundamentally changed.

Whether you are a civil servant or an administrator, you are still in the administrative system, and your working mode and thinking are the same. Under such circumstances, what is the significance of resigning civil servants to go to school to do administration? It really doesn't make much sense, unless your level is greatly improved, for example, from department level to department level. If a position is greatly improved, I think it may make some sense to do it. I don't think it makes any sense to work at the same level without being promoted.

Second, the administrative power of universities is too different from that of civil servants.

Being an administrator is definitely more meaningful than being a civil servant. Because the so-called administration in our country is actually from the perspective of civil servants, the difference between the rights held by civil servants and the powers held by schools is really too great. For example, if you are a director in a school and a county magistrate or county party secretary in the civil service, this is a world of difference and there is no comparability at all.

If you quit your job to go to school because of power, then you won't feel any dependence on power. Although the school has a certain administrative level, the size and use of power are really different from those of civil servants, so it is meaningless for you to resign.

If possible, I think the future development depends on whether you can engage in professional and technical positions, or that is to say, you can upgrade your academic qualifications, and finally you can become an associate professor or something. I think there may be some truth in this, otherwise the administration in the school will be like that in the end.