old-spice2 wrote: ↑Sat Nov 02, 2024 7:25 pm
I disagree with the sentence every gen beats previous gen. We the first gen who moved from India may have been better off than previous generation due to relocation to higher income country. But many second gen kids in US do not fare well.
Many chose non traditional career and parents end up supporting them. For first gen we have to pursue profession like IT/finance to get US visa/GC and second gen has no such compulsions. Many end up with low paying careers. But some do better.
Like kids of Pichai and Nadella cannot do better than them. Even in India Mukesh did better than his father but Anil Ambani was a dud. Same with Tendulkar or Big B. We cannot generalize next gen will do better than current one.
Thanks. Another point I wanted to share. I know a couple of my colleagues who are now in their 50s and they are really accomplished people, like managing director, Senior manager level. They have worked in multiple countries and have got US citizenship and they are like big shots now.
However, I noticed their kids have just passed out from US college, one studied from Colorado State University BS in data science and another from San Jose state university BS in business analytics and CS. Both have status of Open to work in linked in.
So just imagine, they are kids of established parents. Yet, they are following the same path which we followed. The same boring dull grind, which we followed because we didnt have any choice. We had to do it. But kids of established parents, who can pay crores in tuition fees and let them choose any career they want, in the end are following the same boring career which we followed.
What doest this say? 2 things come to my mind.
1) If you are an industrialist and you set up a big company. Basically your kids life is set, they can learn the tricks of the trade but basically they will take over the family business. Because it is much more lucrative than to slog in a corporate for someone else. My wife's uncles' kids basically joined their parents family business which is a clothes store and a rice mill and although they did Engg and MBA and had the option to work in corporates, they decided to join the family business.
However, if you work in a corporate job, no matter how much big shot, CEO or whatever you become. At best you can give your kids US citizenship, you can sponsor their education etc. But in the end they start the same struggle and grind in corporate. To be all that accomplishment we achieve in a corporate isnt of much use for our kids. We think we are giving them a great platform, but truth is; they would do well regardless.
2) Second point that comes to my mind is desi parents keep ingraining into their kids either subtly or directly that STEM careers are the only way. This is why 99% of desi kids in US choose BS in CS or related fields. I think desis should really stop forcing their insecurities on their kids. We came from a generation of deprivation so we didnt have a choice, we had to struggle and work hard. We chose careers that gave money regardless of whether we liked it or not. But subtly coercing kids to do the same makes no sense.
I will leave you guys with the below quote:
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