I would advise budding writers some other kind of job, unless they think they're very, very lucky.
Terry PratchettTiffany has been apprenticing as a witch by visiting people in need with her mentor. After meeting with one particularly sad case, she tells her mentor, "It shouldn't be like this." Her mentor replies, "There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.
Terry Pratchett