My major is print journalism and I am learning to write for newspapers but I do NOT want to do that as a job?

Question

I do NOT want to write for newspapers because it is hard and unstructured and you would not get paid a lot. He said you could be like a copy editor or layout editor, which pays more and is structured, but he said to be a layout or copy editor you have to have a specific skill, and we don't seem to be focusing specifically on those skills, we just seem to be learning to write for newspapers. He keeps saying most of the people in the class will probably end up being news reporters because he said 90% of people end up being news reporters and only 10% are editors. But I do NOT want to be a reprter! I do NOT want to be a news reporter. I can't stand it and I know I would not want to do it. If anything I would want to be a copy editor, but I don't even think I want to work with a newspaper at all. Aren't there any jobs I can easily get out of college that would not have to do with a newspaper or magazine? Like aren't there any other writing jobs, or any other jobs?

Answer 1

One has to wonder why you are taking the class. There are hundreds of jobs involving writing that do not involve deadlines and are more structured. The most obvious examples are writing for promotional purposes - all those booklets telling you about products, companies, cities, countries and people. Technical writing includes a lot of writing that is not very technical - how to contact the company, what a product is intended to do.
Unless you write a series of major novels that are a great success, you are not going to get rich doing writing - it is manual labor after all and you can only be so productive.