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[sunshinekiid]

Well, I have never exactly been set on one career for my whole life. Hence I am in a gen ed program in a pretty crappy university, taking a variety of courses. I've wanted to pursue really random careers, from a pediatrician, to music teacher. Two completely different occupations. Now I've finally think I'm set on getting into journalism, it was

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[miss_sunshine82]

Among the 1001 other things people could tell you, at the most basic level make sure you know what you mean by "journalist" - what it is specifically that you want to do and what your options are.

Of course to start out you'll need to be super flexible and you definitely don't want to limit yourself - but you also need to think about the amount of jobs out there that may, however loosely, involve the things that interest you.

Obviously I don't know and your post doesn't go into specifics, so it's a bit hard to comment in a more helpful way. Just think about things like ... is it the news element that grabs you? Or the writing itself? Could you cope with a newspaper environment? Especially with the level of diversification into new media?

Getting experience is key to answering those questions. Be prepared to get ignored, to work tough hours for buttons and start hawking your cv EVERYWHERE. Start small though - if you head to a big daily newspaper for example, you either won't get in or you'll get in and get enough coffee-making experience to qualify as a barista!

And if you find it tough to get experience, keeping writing anyway so that you can at least have plenty of examples of work to show editors.