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Why Journalism?

When I tell people that I want to purse a career in journalism I always receive the same questions.

Is there really money in that?
Wow,you must love to write, huh?
Well do you have a plan B?

I feel like a lot of people have negative views on journalists . People might relate them back to whistle bowers or just gossip columnists but it doesn't really matter because everyone is a journalist these days, rather you like it or not. I want to write for magazines, now some may not see that as real journalism and it may not be the journalism everyone respects like the writers for the New York Times. Yet it is indeed my favorite form of journalism. I have been reading magazines for as long as I can remember and I still do. I always loved opening the mailbox and finding all my subscriptions waiting for me. The thing I love most about magazines it the ability to evolve with them. Most girls start reading tween magazine around age eleven and then they mature to Seventeen or Teen Vogue and eventually graduate to Glamour or Cosmo and when life continues so does the cycle of possibilities. I do not want to be in journalism for the money or the controversial stories, I want to turn a favorite childhood pastime into a career reality.