From the article:

"For those who are still willing to jump into the current situation, the advice is simple, said Mindcrest's Matarajan.

'A friend's daughter called me the other day about whether she should go to law school," Matarajan said. "If you have a passion for the law, then go, but don't do it because your family wants you to go or you can't think of anything else to do.'

He added: 'You have to have the passion with the way things are now. Otherwise, choose something else.'"

As a lawyer of 37 years (class of '76), and one that didn't really want to be one in the first place, the above is almost verbatim the advice I give when asked by college kids (mostly my friends kids). And that's good advice regardless of whether the profession is then "hot" or not.