As they said, government job is better compare to private job because it is permanent and pensionable and the job is more secured. Though private job too some are pensionable but not permanent and not that secured. And again in private job, you have the opportunity to let them know how much you want to be paid. You can either be paid higher or lower base on how you present yourself.
Which one do you prefer if you are given an offer?
The particular answer to this question will be base on the country we live in, as for my country both government jobs and the private job are categories into types by types, like government jobs are divided into three categories, we have local government job, state government jobs and federal government job. Federal government job get higher money than the remaining two follow by state government jobs then last local government. Likewise in private jobs too they are categories into two graduates and non graduate. As for me money is my concern I know of people working for private organisations and they are paying them well far better than the federal government work, in my place we don't decide on what we will receive when working for private.
Unlike the other country that work on hourly rate I wil choose private jobs because I have no intention of working for anybody rather than to become self-employed, but since I can start it on my own I have to start from some where to build myself.