How can I become an advice columnist?

To be an advice columnist, like dear prudie, dear abby, etc., do I need to have a degree in psychology?


And could I get into trouble by being an advice columnist in a community paper or magazine without a degree?How can I become an advice columnist?
Wow, some people are rude.





http://hubpages.com/hub/how-to-create-an鈥?/a>





thats a mini forum that might help.


a lot of people on yahoo answeres are complete douchebags.


try googling it or asking someone in your community that might know.





Hope I helped and good luck!How can I become an advice columnist?
Yeah, you could get in trouble. If you're any good at it, someone with a journalism degree will come back and whack you out of jealousy. Or maybe some Psychology major.





If you have to ask advice on how to become an advice columnist, you're probably not ready.





As for Dear Abby, she's senile, 90 years old and long since replaced by someone with unique qualifications - her daughter, who owns the right to the pen name, Abigail Van Buren. The daughter took over the column after the old Abby, aka Popo, was diagnosed 13 years ago with Alzheimers.





Abby's twin sister, really, was Ann Landers who was as famous as Abby was. But she's been dead for six years.





Seriously, why would you think that advice columnists have psychology degrees. What it takes is common sense and an ability to express it.





You don't have to be able to apply common sense, just tell other people how to live their lives. Abby and Ann (not the real names of course) stopped speaking to each other in in the 30s. They claimed to have buried the hatchet in the early 60s ... but no one believes it. A second reconciliation was supposed to have occured before Ann Landers, aka Eppie, kicked off.





But given that Popo, the other Friedman twin, was already deep into Alzheimer's, it's not likely anyone was at home to make peace. Common sense says it was bad business to have someone writing advice columns who couldn't stand their own family.





Needless to say, you have to ask what took them so long to acquire the rights to their phony names. The short answer is that they were both already in the newspaper racket and jumped in to fill a gap.





And, common sense didn't stop one sister, Abby, from getting divorced after 36 years because her husband was a skirt chaser. And the current Abby, aka daughter, wrote a memorial tribute to her aunt after he death, saying they had reconciled.





As it happens, her first cousin, Ann Lander's daughter, said the column's recounting of the reconciliation was simply written for money -- saying they hadn't even spoken before Dear Ann Landers shuffled off the mortal coil.





So live a fine hypocritical life and good luck.
You want to be an advice columnist, yet you are asking other people for advice??????????





Find a different career path.