Opportunity cost on being an author vs. being an editor for financial literacy.

2.  About $39,177 a year in tuition and fees.
$156,708 for four years
 Where: University of Denver
http://www.braintrack.com/?search=University+of+Denver&degrees=&s
tates=&classifications=&pg=1&sort=accreditations%3Aaccred_start
http://money.cnn.com/tools/collegecost/collegecost.html#

3.  The average salary for an editor in the
Ohio area is around $57,148 a year.
 An editor puts in about 40 hours a week,
I’d have to work about five or six hours a
day.
Amount of Work:
http://www.editors.ca/join_eac/be_an_editor/so.html

4.  I’d be working during the day, and I’d
probably have time in between jobs to
take time off.

5.  I don’t need any degrees to be an
author, but I should probably have the
same ones at least that I get from being
an editor.
 About $ 39,177 a year in tuition and fees
http://money.cnn.com/tools/collegecost/collegecost.html#

6.  The average pay for an author depends
on how successful their books are. It can
be anywhere from $0 to $100,000 a year.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeremygreenfield/2013/12/09/how-much-money-
do-self-published-authors-ma ke/

7.  I’d have to have another job in order to
support myself in case writing didn’t work
out.
 I’d have to have time to work on a
manuscript, so I would be pretty busy.
 I probably wouldn’t have the best job, so
I would probably be stretched thin.

8.  If I took job one, I would go to college
instead of just starting to write and
having a day job on the side.
 I’d have to pay for college, and get a
job to help pay for it.

9.  If I took job two, I wouldn’t have to pay
for college, but I would need to have
another job.
 I would also have to pay for a place to
live, and for food and clothes and such.

10.  If I took job one, I would need to find a
college to go to that can give me the
degrees I need that is within my price
range.
 If I took job two, I would need to find a
publisher that would take me on as a
client in order to make money.