Addendum addendum.

If you prepare a thought experiment where you travel back in time several decades and tell people to immediately plan for worst-case economic scenarios and shelve even cautious attempts at their dreams and to take nothing on faith about possible advancement or further opportunities and to flee as quickly as possible to any sort of guaranteed employment harbor that can't be hacked up and distributed over computers, and to lock down and save as much as possible and get plugged into retirement and housing as soon as possible, people would think that you were extremely cynical and that you were catastrophically paranoid and that maybe something was wrong with you, as well as that your thinking was clouded by severely unwarranted pessimistic thinking, almost kind of like you were a (Mormon) survival prepper, albeit without the cleancut chipperness or the conviction that things would come out all right on the other side.

But, it would have been solid advice.

It's like the only people my age I know who have done well immediately tracked into semi-specialized middling financial sector work or into state/local government jobs, or they went into medicine.

There's other outcomes, too, like law, but that usually involved heavy income loss and years of instability, where people finally pulled out of it finally, but not until after quite a number of years.