[citation needed] After graduation, he started work in the Jelgava Railway Technical Department in Riga.

In 1897, he joined the civil service and confirmed as head of unit on the West Siberian Railway.

He returned to an independent Latvia, and in February, started working at the Latvian Railway Board.

[citation needed] With the election of the 1st Saeima on 7 and 8 October 1922, the powers of the Second Government of Meierovics approved by the Constitution had expired.

First, President Jānis Čakste entrusted the formation of the government to the Social Democrats, who had the largest faction in the Saeima.

After more than two months of talks, they failed to form a government, and on 25 January, chose to nominate a non-partisan technocrat, Pauļuks, who was not a member of the Saeima, as a compromise figure.

In social policy, the government set the following goals: From 1926 to 1927, he became the chief inspector of the Ministry of Transport and a member of the Railway Board's newly built track council.