First of all, I would like to encourage all of you to dream your dreams and go for it! The only person stopping you is yourself.
There had been people who had worked to get me not to become a journalist years ago and instead, to focus on being in the Christian ministry. I'm not against that, but the reason I was told not to go into being a journalist is, "Because homosexuals are in the news media." Yep, that is how shallow these people have been and have created nothing but almost bitterness and anger in me because of them.
I "officially" retired from the ministry in 2000 and called it quits last February, when a Christian college said some very mean and untrue, slanderous things about me, due to some activities I was in, which were legal, but they felt it didn't "fit in the scope" of the college.
So, under my user name is what I do now, as well as attend college to learn more of how to do it. I'm also a news reporter part-time.