More on Sports Writing

All right, so just recently I have come to the conclusion that I want pursue a career in writing sports. It just seemed like the right fit. It goes well with a lot of my interests and it's something I could see myself doing for many years. So now that I have established what it is that I want to do I have been doing some research here and there on different aspects of sports writing. Mainly things like what kind of a degree do you need, salary, and the typical work day of a sports writer.

I found most of the answers to my questions in this article that I read. After reading it just confirmed a lot of my thoughts on why I would want to be a sports writer. For example, the article states that a typical day for a sports writer consists of waking up around 11, doing research on whatever sport/team you primarily write about. Then you watch the game, write your story and your done. Sounds like a pretty decent day to me.

Some things that I was able to learn from this article were that in order to get his job you need a journalism degree, the average salary of a sports writer is 45k to 65k, and having some sort of background with your school newspaper is probably ideal. These were the main facts that I was hoping to learn from this article.

The only real bad thing that the article mentioned was that the market for sports writers is shrinking. And it also mentioned that most sports writers have to travel around the country a lot and it can be a bit of a grind. But for me, I like to travel so that really shouldn't be a problem. So all in all, I was pretty satisfied with what I read and received some encouragement from reading this article.

So now that I have established my desired career, I am going to start posting on the different types of jobs in this field and will probably write about current sports topics a well. I kinda get the feeling that this blog is going to move more in the direction of being a sports blog instead of a career blog due to the lack of material that I have left.