(Image credit: Getty Images) Just about every day now, I get emails and phone calls from readers asking the same question: "With what we are seeing, AI is leading to the wholesale firing of hundreds of thousands of employees across entire industries. Should I consider law as a career?" My answer: Let history be your guide. Consider these questions: What was the dominant means of transportation in the early 1900s in villages and cities across our country? Who, and in which profession, assured their dependability? How many of them were there in the late 19 th century? How many now? What one factor explained their vanishing as a primary industry, and when it first emerged, was it seen as a threat to their profession? Indispensable to daily life The answer: The village smithy, aka the blacksmith, assured that horses could provide the transportation that was indispensable to daily life. Blacksmiths numbered in the hundreds of thousands in the late 19 th century, but there are only about 10,000 today.…