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Advice columnist career?
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Okay so I love to give people advice, that is why I registered to be a advice columnist on here. I want to be an official advice columnist as a career when I grow up. You know, the kind where you are in the newspaper and people from all over the country ask you for advice. I really want to do this but how? What kind of degree do you need? Do they make good money? What is the average income a year? What type of environment would you work in? Most importantly, are there many jobs for this available in Florida? Please tell me everything you know about this job and how to get it. Thank you so much! :)
Baylee
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Well, my advice would be to become a Psychologist. As they give advice to many people, and if you become famous, then you will have people all over the world wanting your advice. Here's some info on the job...
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And here is something else that may help you, as well.
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Almost all individuals who wind up film critics or advice columnists don't start out as such. They are usually journalists who a newspaper's editor or a syndicate if they are world wide selected for that job. In all likelihood they started out as reporters first and got tapped for the job when there was an opening for it.
Most advice columnists usually have a background in entertainment and lifestyle feature writing. In other words soft journalism rather than hard news. You need to go to university or college for journalism and get training as a reporter, editor, page designer and find a job at a local newspaper, respectable web site or magazine.
Build up a portfolio of lifestyle and entertainment pieces and tell the editors and your professors what you would like to do one day as a columnist. You never know what an editor will hand you as an assignment. But no, there's real prep school for an advice columnist--but this is how you can ascend to it and how they get hired.
You start out as a writer, find a beat and try to get noticed for what your specialty happens to be. You need to learn how to write professionally, volunteer at the local newspaper now and take all the writing courses you can. Study grammar intensely and be a go-getter. Eventually if you work at a newspaper you might become one.
If I were you I would see if your school has a newspaper or not. Find out who is in charge and see if you can get your own column. They may be very open to that. For now, you can earn experience by answering questions here and developing a style that is different from others.
You might also want to go another route and take Psychology or Psychiatry degrees and help people with advice and knowledge through medicine.
For now, check out Teen Ink www.teenink.com Ypress www.ypress.org and [Link](Mouse over link to see full location)
The first two sites work with teen writers and may have advice columns as part of their content but better yet can get you published professionally. The TeenTalk one is a site that does Internet radio with teens. Perhaps if you contacted them they might be able to find a way for you to give advice not in the form of a column but in the form of a show where there are guests and you have topics teens need to know about to give advice on. See what happens.
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