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How can you attain a career working for a big time magazine interviewing celebrities or writing advice/columns

I would love to have a career where I get a chance to write advice for a magazine or career in the media. Any ideas?

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1. Well, these careers are tough to pursue b/c the market is just not very large. First, to work for a highly circulated publication you'd have to come out of a pretty good journalism school w/ probably a graduate degree. Even then, you'd probably start off making not much more than 40k, if that even. Or if you didn't go to a great school, you'd probably have to work at a very small magazine or newspaper in the sticks, like the midwest, and try and work your way up. But you'd need to invest years to get the experience where a large magazine would even consider you. It's going to be rough, not as rough as trying to be an actor, director, or radio personality, but journalism is somewhere along the same lines. Goodluck.
2. First you just might have to in Journalism but you probably already know that. You know magazines like Esscences, Vibe, The Source, Sports Illustrated. You really have to build your own success before you can into the Entertainment side. Starting small like writing in the newspaper a school and in college, and most likely in your hometown paper. You would have to do the small or medium thing for awhile. You know you can shot for the INTERNSHIP! and start from there or where you would like to write a column for it going to take hardwork GOOD LUCK!