My Dad's India and mine

I Was discussing with my dad the other day about a friend wanting to quit TCS and join a start up with a friend. He found the idea absurd and gave his usual "you youngsters are not wise" dialogue. Now the wisdom of my friend not taken into account, the idea atleast must atleast be appreciated. But coming from a reasonably conservative middle class family, my dad's reaction is not all that wrong.
Back in those days, there weren't too many good jobs around. Now we have so many options.The existing jobs were mainly in the public sector. Job security was paraount. If you were in a decent paying job for a long long time, your future was secure. My dad's India did just tat and secured their future and ours. They saved up money-no frivolous spending- not like there were any good places to hang out and spend your money anyways. They not only secured their future but ours as well.
Now if you look at Maslow's hierarchy of needs, if you don't have food water and shelter, you really cant think of job satisfaction or about making the world a better place. So our parents did just that. Secured the food- shelter part. There is another physiological need which is considered a bad bad thing- but lets not get into that. So now that level was set up, the next generation that is us could try for the higher levels. Which is why there are a lot more start ups, lot more people thinking about global warming etc.I think that India is growing the way it is because of the fundation set up by the previous generation. So we shouldn't be thinking that they are conservative. We can be the modern and fast moving because they were steady and conservative.
So when my dad thinks that sticking to a job which provides security is the way to go, he is just trying to come to terms with the change he helped to bring about.