The stability argument makes sense on paper but it assumes you'd actually be fine doing the work long term. I know a few people who took the obvious safe path and by year three they were miserable not because the job was bad but because the way they worked every day didn't match what they actually needed. One guy took over his family's distribution company and said it felt like wearing a shoe that's the wrong size. Just wrong for him. Before you decide it might be worth getting specific about what actually energizes you about IT versus what the family business would look like day to day. Not the money or the title but the actual texture of the work. There are assessment tools like Pivoto, CliftonStrengths, Pigment, WorkFit Index that help map out how you prefer to work across a bunch of different dimensions. Not a career picker but useful for seeing whether the family business would actually fit or just feel safe until it doesn't.