What is a job similar to a medical writer?

What kind of job can I do that I can be a writer and still make a good salary?

• My professor says that I am talented in my writing and that I should persue a career in writing. I write poems and short stories. What profession besides a bok/novel writer can I do? ...show more

• Answer:

  The very best advice I can give you is to train for a job which allows you to earn money and write in your spare time. If you are an electrician, or a welder, or an accountant, or have a specialty certificate for something. You can always work, write in your spare time and try to cultivate a living from it. You can always quit a job and cruise on the money you saved for half a year and go write in South America or South Asia or something. And if nothing has paid off, you go back to work until you save enough to take another shot! Writers who take writing all the way through school, often find it hard to work thier best after a ten hour shift waiting tables and cleaning toilets so that they can afford their tiny noisy rental apartments. Believe me, I know. Trying to improve my chances of being a writer, and give myself a chance at being one, by training to be someone who can know I have a good job whenever I want one! Good Luck....this is THE best advise you will ever get! I know successful artists and writers who have done this, and have not. We often discuss this and everyone agrees that it was a huge and unnecessary risk not to have a fallback career in case you can't find a job in this HIGHLY competitive career choice.