Physician here. I'd advise avoiding nursing as the healthcare industry is >80% female and therefore the pay per unit work is guaranteed to decrease each year, as whytehorse2021 said. Don't worry about AI taking over tech jobs, it won't happen soon and only creates more jobs in the short term. I myself am considering leaving medicine for tech.

Nursing will be steady work for the forseeable future but expect shit hours in the beginning. If you don't mind body fluids and disgusting people, yeah.

Computer science is good work but you'll probably never rise to the top if you weren't doing it since early on. You can still get pretty good work in a company or dare I say it, in the military. Usually by working on ancient stuff no industry wants to support (think Cobol). Don't go into video games, it will eat you up and spit you out. Easier time and money in boring business stuff. There's a chance AI will replace the lower ranks in the future so government work is easier. Ageism is a thing but not in your late 20s early 30s. You want to be cemented in by 40. Imo, check government or military work if you can -- because they have problems recruiting since Iraq, entrance requirements had been lax (although I'm not up to date how it's now).

Maybe talk to a guidance counselor at your school.

28??? that is young. I had a major career change at 45.

Nursing doesn't really fit in with remote work. I'm often surprised at how much nurses get paid in the USA, over here in the UK, they get paid poverty wages. Many of them have to use food banks. The nurse wages are suppressed by a constant stream of new entrants from the 3rd world, Africa, Indonesia and Malaysia. I would be a bit concerned about the downward pressure on wages as a nurse if I were in the USA ....things change, and not usually for the better for labour. Usually they change for the better of those that purchase labour - which is health care companies.

If you're going into programming and you're worried about Ai - don't be. The growth field in IT is going to be Ai - not necessarily development (you're likely too low end for that) but in implementation. There are going to be millions of clients looking for help in how to implement Ai because their workforce is so retarded. This is going to be a huge growth area, and it won't be a short lived either.

For example, how will an insurance company use Ai for better underwriting? How will a car rental company use Ai to set prices?

A software engineer that specialises in implementing Ai for corporate clients will be able to charge at least $1500 per day I would have though, and be constantly booked out.

Edit - I didn't mean to be rude when I said 'you're likely too low end for that' - I meant that the kind of people developing Ai will be very high end programers, the kind that got PhDs at the age of 24. Didn't mean it as a slur - just meant that if you start IT at 28, you're not going to be the cutting edge of IT that makes Ai. Anyhow, I reckon there is more money to be made in implementation than in development, which is usually the way.

I'd nix the nursing idea simply because women choose that career and women are agreeable so the wages are low. That's been slowly changing since the pandemic but project it out 10 years and it doesn't seem like a good path.

I'm trying to do the remote work from a cheap country route currently. It isn't panning out. Plenty of people all over the world will gladly do my programming job for $10/hr. I'll throw you a bone here if you can help me out. I'm switching to game development. You could learn unreal engine and help me get this game going and boom, we can both work remotely making Western money. Your investment would be a $4k dev rig and lots of time but it will be the most likely thing to work out in the end. People pay for games. They will continue to pay for them more and more to escape their shitty lives. Here's the kickstarter preview. DM me for my email and more discussion. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1613239793/1725379117?ref=e92x7r&token=94b37f1c