I like helping people and would love my own advice column one day how and where would I apply for such work?

Question

I have made my free e-mail where a lot of people write and I was able to help them with advice over there. It's a good practice for me as well as I would like to do this one day more professionally. But what's the next step? Do I approach the magazines or who exactly?
Thank you.

Answer 1

local newspaper

Answer 2

The best advice is: Start local, apply with a community or local paper. Or even ask a school paper if you can start somethign there, to make sure you really like it and want to continue doing it.

A degree is jurnalism would help, as it would allow you to learn how to write for the paper or magazine, as well as a second minor or assosicates in another feild related to helping people, maybe psych. or soic.

Don't let peopel get you down, as yuo may allready know. Live the dream and remember you have to live with your desisions in the end, only you, so make the ones which will make your life worht living. (Stolen in part for the Musical, The Green Room)

Answer 3

most people who are advice columnists either have an educational background in sociology, psychology, PR or journalism. I would suggest you start with having an education, otherwise just telling them you are good at giving advice because you've helped a few people will get you laughed out of the office.
If education is not your interest, then perhaps make a portfolio of the advice you have given in the past, as they will need to see your writing style just as much as your advice content

Answer 4

I'm not trying to be critical, but I don't think there's a market for advice columnist in newspapers any more. With the ready access to the internet, EVERYBODY can be an advice columnist, critic, or pundit.

Answer 5

Some type of social work. a teacher, at a libary, or working for the telephone company, soup kitchen, the hospital, or the nursimg home or teaching people to read.