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The only secure careers in the future are in health care and government.

Given that this country is continuing to drown in an ever-deepening sea of litigation, being a lawyer is one career with a "bright" future.

Of you could build strip-malls.

I'm a lawyer and I don't know how much of a growth industry law is for two reasons:
1. Most people are getting hip to the fact we need tort reform. Once it passes, a lot of personal injury lawyers as well as the insurance defense lawyers who fight them, will have a lot of free time on their hands.

2. Law firms are getting more efficient in breaking down tasks into an "assembly line". For the past 10 years, the trend is paying a junior lawyer or a paralegal $35,000, $40,000 a year to do the work and just have a partner sign off on it. In the next 10 years, you'll see the assignment e-mailed to India to be handled by Indian lawyers happy making $5,000 a year and then e-mailed back for the American lawyer to sign off on it.

It's just like every other industry, if you don't need a security clearance or personal contact with a customer, it's going to be shipped overseas.