Law degrees are another racket. There are too many people in the US with JDs. Only 23% are using them productively.

Physics and mathematics are other economic dead-ends.

If you want a steady career become an MD: plastic surgeon, cardiologist, anesthesiologist, perfusionist (doesn't necessarily require becoming an MD), or endocrinologist.

Most PhDs have a net negative lifetime earnings opportunity cost.

Biotech, data science, AI/ML are also good bets. What's not a safe bet is generic "programmer" likely to be automated out of a job and salaries are likely to crash when there's an oversupply of lower-skilled talent. Most programming will become trivial or eliminated by automation, as is already beginning to happen with AI code completion.