I went to school and got a BA in English Lit/ Creative Writing. Right now I'm a construction inspector. I highly advise NOT doing any of this and doing something where you bust your ass for a real degree that has truly marketable skills so you can get paid accordingly for it.

Trust me, with the height of the blog culture and the like, everyone's a writer now. If anyone wants to go into it, I really, truly suggest you get a degree in something else as well. Anything where people would need someone with a skill comes with an advanced degree. Anyone can be a writer, and anyone can read and write relatively coherently.